Strategy & design partner — Auckland, NZ

Build things worth building.

Most businesses reach a point where their marketing needs to be more strategic. You know where you want to go. You need a senior marketing partner who gets the business, not just the campaigns.

30+
Years in brand and marketing
10+
Principal-led businesses served
4
Years as an independent practice

Trusted by leaders at

Prodotti·Longame·Anteris Psychiatry·Validus·Strategic Specialist Group·Visco·Lodge Cast Iron·Max Fitness College·Production Partners·SMP&CProdotti·Longame·Anteris Psychiatry·Validus·Strategic Specialist Group·Visco·Lodge Cast Iron·Max Fitness College·Production Partners·SMP&C
Why we exist

Few businesses fail for lack of activity. Most fail because their marketing never connected to their strategy.

What we do

Three layers, one partner.

Every business needs different things at different times. GreaterThan works across three connected layers — alone or together, shaped to what your business needs right now.

01

Strategy & Advisory

Direct guidance on marketing strategy, from the principal who leads it. Scoping, strategy assessment, capability evaluation, governance, planning oversight.

  • Direction & positioning
  • Marketing roadmap
  • Strategic governance
02

Execution Support

When your strategy calls for a campaign, a rebrand, a new website, or AI enablement, GreaterThan scopes the brief, sources the right resource, and oversees it through to completion.

  • Brief development
  • Resource sourcing
  • Project oversight
03

Coaching & Leadership

Where you have marketing talent inside the business who need to step up, GreaterThan coaches them directly. The focus is moving capability to the next tier.

  • One-on-one coaching
  • Strategic mentoring
  • Leadership development
Selected work

Recent projects.

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Strategy & Advisory

Prodotti. New Zealand's largest Mediterranean food and drink importer.

Led a comprehensive rebrand from Prodotti di Italia to Prodotti, then continued as fractional marketing manager across the full range.

Rebrand2022–ongoing
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Strategy & Advisory

Longame. From concept to market leader.

Led brand strategy and identity creation for a premium coffee brand entering a competitive market.

Brand strategy2025–ongoing
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Execution Support

SMP&C. Brand launch and AI integration.

Built market positioning for a new senior people-and-culture consultancy, then translated the brand into an installable AI plugin.

Brand launch2024
How we work

A way of working that shows.

01

Read the business

Every engagement starts by understanding where the business is heading, what the marketing currently delivers, and what's needed next.

02

Build the strategy

The work that follows is shaped by what you find, not by what was expected when you walked in. Strategy before tactics, always.

03

Execute or enable

Deliver the strategy through the right people and resources — whether that's direct execution, vendor oversight, or coaching your team.

04

Hand it over well

Every engagement ends with the client in control. The goal is a marketing function that runs without constant external support.

38%

Average increase in qualified leads reported by clients

12

Years average client relationship length

40+

Campaigns and projects overseen

9/10

Clients who continue beyond initial engagement

Having Andrew as a strategic guide has changed how we think about marketing. It's not about being busy; it's about being strategic. The difference shows up in our results.

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Thinking

Notes from the work.

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Strategy5 min read

When your marketing strategy doesn't match your business strategy

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Technology4 min read

AI for marketing leaders: enablement over automation

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Models6 min read

The fractional CMO model: when and why it works

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