Our Founder

At the helm of Octagon Marketing Group™ is an inspirational professional known for innovative thinking, elegance, knowledge, resourcefulness, giving, and a just-get-it-done/just-get-it-right modus operandi. Soraya Ali-Hope’s expertise provides her clients with marketing insight seldom available outside of the largest multinational corporations.

Ms. Ali-Hope’s skills and marketing savvy propelled her from Developmental and Quality Control Chemist for large pharmaceuticals manufacturers to Director of Marketing, Sales, Product Development, and Quality Control for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 corporations. She has developed and implemented highly successful marketing campaigns for entrepreneurs and multinational conglomerates alike.

Soraya has broad experience within many consumer and commercial categories. Her talents encompass strategic planning, long-range market development, product development, orchestration and management of national market rollouts for domestic and imported brands, and creation and execution of international advertising and public relations campaigns.

Ms. Ali-Hope was a founding partner of a very well-respected advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, where she oversaw Client Services, Marketing Services, Research, Public Relations, and Media.

Soraya was born in London, England, and grew up in Oakville, Ontario. She studied Chemistry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario—which is world renowned for its sciences and medicine programmes—and MBA at University of California at Irvine. She began winning recognition for her art and writing in early childhood, and is co-author of Recipes to Energize Your Life: Body, Mind & Spirit.  You can check out her hobby website entitled New Recipes For Life. Currently, Soraya resides in Chandler, Arizona, with husband, André, and Jack Russell Terrier, Max.

Ms. Hope founded Octagon Marketing Group in 2004 to offer outside-the-box marketing solutions in multifaceted strategic market development, public relations, and advertising disciplines, to small- and medium-sized, evolving businesses.