Matt Hoffner, president of Jobg8.com, a job posting company and marketplace service for job boards, will be the keynote speaker at the B to B Chamber Kick-off Breakfast at Bates College.

Hoffner came to Maine in 1987 after 10 years as an engineer and senior manager for Exxon Corp. In his last position at Exxon, Hoffner was the director of innovation and project development for Exxon USA.

Coming to Maine, Hoffner was one of the early employees of Wright Express Corp., where he became the senior vice president of sales and marketing for 10 years and helped guide the company through high growth and eventually to a successful sale in 1995. Wright Express is one of the largest fuel credit card processors in the world and is a publicly traded company headquartered in South Portland.

After leaving Wright Express in 1997, Hoffner started Integra Associates, a sales and marketing outsourcing company based in Westbrook. Integra grew to manage over 200 employees on multiple long-term projects throughout the U.S.

In 2000, Hoffner joined two other partners to start JobsInTheUS.com, the parent company for JobsInME.com and 15 other state-specific job boards.  As president and CEO of JobsInTheUS, the company grew to become the largest job board in the Northeast and was sold to the Journal Register Corp. in 2006. Hoffner stayed on as president until July 2007. 

He is now the president of Jobg8.com, which was launched in the summer of 2008 and has experienced rapid growth and success with an innovative business model. The company serves clients in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany and Australia. The U.S. office manages the North American market and is based in Portland.

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