Our Experts
Meet the experts behind Hive Digital
Hive Digital has been very fortunate to discover and retain incredible talent in the search marketing space. We value the hard work and dedication of all our staff, and appreciate everything they do to make Hive Digital the amazing company it is today. Below are a few of the experts that make Hive Digital one of the leading search marketing agencies in the world.

Recent Industry Awards
- Communicator Awards "Online Advertising & Marketing" Winner
- Web Excellence Awards "Paid Advertising" and "Landing Page Optimization" Winner
- People's Choice Awards "Best Digital Marketing Agency" Winner
- Web Excellence Awards "SEO" Winner

Ryan Allis is the Owner and Chairman of Hive Digital. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11 in 1995. Ryan started Hive Digital prior to attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was an economics major and a Blanchard Scholar.
He is the author of the book Zero to One Million, published by McGraw-Hill in February 2008, which reached the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list, and chronicles one of Hive Digital’s early client successes.
Jeff Staub, CEO of Hive Digital specializes in marketing strategy, paid search, web analytics, and SEO initiatives.
Jeff has a B.A. from Elon University and a B.S. from Colorado State University with a focus on the biological sciences and analysis. Prior to Hive Digital, Jeffrey worked as an independent consultant for various online marketing firms working on projects for large movie companies, music industry leaders, major oil companies, and sports apparel producers.
Jake Bohall, Vice President of Hive Digital, is recognized as an online columnist, entrepreneur, board member of an educational non-profit, and philanthropist.
Jake’s experience in business and strategy development has made him adept at identifying practical online marketing strategies to fit a company’s growth objectives and available resources.
Dom Ciampa, has been working at Hive Digital since 2012. Focusing primarily on Business Development and client retention, Dom also handles project billing and management.
Dom is well versed in onsite as well as offsite SEO best practices, and is Google Adwords Certified.
Nina Martinez has dedicated her career to responsible marketing since 2008, with a wholehearted belief in advertising with integrity and a methodology that ensures honest value to both clients and the communities they serve.
With these principles in mind, and a deep appreciation for building genuine relationships, Nina has founded and contributed to entrepreneurial ventures and established brands, doing so in a manner that values the more human elements behind audience response and translates them into marketing initiatives for the digital world.
Tripp Hamilton has been working in digital marketing since 2012, first starting his career helping his clients out of manual link penalties.
Tripp has in-depth knowledge for e-commerce clients working on WordPress, Shopify, and other CMS platforms, and has expertise in local SEO, natural link acquisition strategies, and content optimization/strategy.
John Gibbings has been working, adapting and succeeding within organic search for multi-million dollar companies since 2011. He is a Senior SEO Consultant with Hive Digital, where he works hand in hand with the internal departments to ensure the best focus and care is given to each client.
Sheffield joined Hive Digital in 2017. Sheffield is a proven professional excelling in the promotion of personal and team accomplishments with extensive, results-oriented sales management, marketing and business development experience.
Ruby Aaver is a graduate of California State University, Northridge where she studied sociology. Her experience as a project coordinator centered on supporting strategic marketing initiatives involving event planning, and has recently expanded to include supporting customer service, sales, and social media marketing efforts. Ruby has also spent time as a financial analyst, and has an eye for details and getting things done efficiently and effectively.
Paul’s experience since 2003 spans every vertical from mom and pop to Fortune 100 to household retail brands. He has advised the US Government on SEM practices, is archived in the British Library, and been interviewed by the BBC owing to his business blogging prowess. He has also been featured in the The Guardian, The UK London Times, and the Daily Telegraph along with various book mentions.
As the Director of Analytics, Joost Loijens provides the web analytics support for Hive Digital, working closely with the SEO, paid search and social teams. He has eight-years’ experience implementing and analyzing tracking for small sites to global enterprises. Decisions are only as good as the data available to make them on.
Jeff works with clients to understand their goals and challenges and provide strategies for online marketing programs, including SEO, paid search and content strategy development. He conducts analyses to provide insights into online competitors, search trends, and SERP landscape, meeting with clients to review updates on measured KPIs and new opportunities.
Danielle comes to us with an extensive background in corporate sales and business development in various industries but wanted to challenge herself and dive into the tech industry with a specialized focus. She has a B.A. in Business from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and recently took a post graduate program for Digital Marketing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her family is extremely entrepreneurial in nature which has inspired a passion for learning the inner workings of businesses and corporations. She is dedicated to helping any company or organization succeed in their respective industry.
Jay Patel, Google Ads Expert at Hive Digital, is an ex-Googler and social entrepreneur who has been working in the SEM space since 2010.
Lori is an experienced Social Media Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Skilled in Influencer Marketing, Paid Social, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Integrated Marketing, and E-commerce.
Careers
Hive Digital, Inc. is a Benefit Corporation hyper focused on assisting those people and companies that are dedicated to helping solve the worlds problems. As a digital marketing agency, not only are we passionate about the clients we work with, we are passionate about our team members and fully support them in their quest to live a happy, healthy and fully alive life.
Interested in a marketing career with Hive Digital? We love to hire amazing talent in the SEO, Paid Search, Development, and Analytics spaces. Statistics backgrounds are always a plus!
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