About Us

Evolve Marketing is a marketing agency small enough to personally respond to individual client needs, talented enough to come up with innovative marketing strategies and dedicated enough to see them successfully implemented.

Evolve Marketing was founded by Brandon Wilcox, who is skilled in devising marketing strategies for growing businesses, and Amanda Quennell, a talented designer with a strong bent towards creative advertising.

Both bring radically different perspectives to the company through their backgrounds and work experience, which at times makes for interesting interaction! In a nutshell, getting the strategy right is Brandon's role, ensuring the creative and tactics are the best they can be is Amanda's.

Evolution is any process of growth, change or development. The word stems from the Latin evolutio meaning "unfolding". The name, Evolve Marketing, implies transformative growth strategies - growth that transforms a company. This is what makes Evolve Marketing stand out and drives its success.

We care as much about small things like spelling and grammar, as we do about big things like strategy.

Brandon
Brandon is a whiz at increasing sales for companies large and small. Consider these achievements:

• 458% increase in sales of Cadbury's 100g block chocolate range
• 19% increase in Wella haircare sales to supermarkets
• 36% increase in total Horleys Health sales
• 136% increase in Red Seal's vitamin business

These astonishing figures were achieved in a variety of ways, all of which can be summed up by the eye-watering term strategic marketing.

Brandon's previous experience ranges from Marketing Manager for Cadbury's $80 million chocolate business to General Manager of a small $5 million business.

Brandon would, if given even the slightest encouragement, create a marketing strategy to sell lawn mowers to high-rise apartment dwellers and rib-eye steak to vegetarians!

Amanda
Amanda's fields of excellence are conceptualisation, design, typography and web design and critique. She also ensures the smooth running of Evolve and creates calm out of havoc.

Amanda's extensive background includes graphic design production for Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and Coats Design, freelance finished artist with a graphic design co-operative, and studio manager at Mason Associates Advertising.

And there was also a four-year stint running Quennell Design, working on great accounts like Air New Zealand, Cadbury, Mazda, Nestle, NZ Post, Reckitt & Colman and Telecom to add to her already comprehensive repertoire.

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Amanda has one of the best creative eyes in the business. If something is not aesthetically correct, she will always spot it first, often picking up on things that others can't quite put their finger on.

We only retain people with senior skill levels. We find that the best people are highly qualified in their discipline and fiercely independent. Some of our talented team...

Craig
Craig is a talented web designer and illustrator. He has worked on a wide range of corporate, medium and small business websites. Craig also creates customised illustrations and character icons for websites, as well as storyboards for television commercials and music videos. He is developing various comic book stories, which he plans to have published internationally.

Ed
Ed is a very talented artist who moved to New Zealand from New York City in 2000. He has a long background in freelance graphic design and is proficient in Photoshop, Freehand, Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Ed wants you to know that he is also an avid fan of the Ukulele.

Lynnaire
Lynnaire is our communications specialist. She has an extensive background in all aspects of wordsmithing including broadcasting, editing and writing in a wide variety of mediums. She can turn her pen to media releases, websites and brochures as easily as she writes articles, annual reports and company profiles. It's our good luck that she's come on board with Evolve.