
A graphic designer became a developer, an integrator, a president and, in July 2026, Chief of Staff to Nextiva's CMO. The through-line is not title collecting. It is the patient craft of making specialists work as one team.

A one-way ticket, a $3 daily budget, a million made and lost: the Nextiva co-founder turned a spectacular reset into a durable operating system for business.

Gaetano DiNardi is a B2B SaaS growth marketing consultant, former music producer, and one of the most distinctive voices in modern SEO. After spending years producing tracks for Fat Joe and Shaggy in NYC studios, he stumbled into SEO through a blog post about getting ghosted by Atlantic Records - and never looked back. He has scaled companies from Nextiva ($70M to $200M+ revenue) to Aura (0 to 1 million monthly visitors in 12 months), and now runs Marketing Advice, a boutique consultancy serving 50+ SaaS clients including Semrush, Gong, and Demandbase.