Senior PR and marketing leadership without the full-time hire — the strategic counsel that sits behind layers of account managers at larger firms. Campaigns that close deals. Teams that stay sharp after I leave.
Fifteen-minute diagnostic call. No deck. No pitch.
Direct access to senior counsel — not a team of juniors learning on your account.
Positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy — developed by someone who's done it for companies from pre-revenue to £35M ARR. Not a playbook. A partner who understands that your situation is specific.
I don't hand you a strategy deck and disappear. I run campaigns, close deals personally when needed, and stay until the work is done. At IndiVillage, that meant closing marquee accounts while building the team to replace me.
The goal is to make your team stronger, not dependent. I hire and train the people who'll eventually replace me. You get scalable frameworks that outlast my engagement.
Experience supporting £100M+ in fundraising. I know what investors want to hear and how to build the narrative that gets you from Series B to Series C — or to exit.
Every engagement is built around your specific situation. These are the outcomes I deliver.
Senior PR and marketing leadership without the full-time hire. Embedded in your team 2-4 days per week.
Learn more →PR that generates reputation and pipeline, not press clippings. Media that moves markets.
Learn more →Marketing that closes. Campaigns built around pipeline, not vanity metrics.
Learn more →I find the partners, negotiate the deal, and close it. Personally.
Learn more →Repositioned from BPO to AI-as-a-Service. Built scalable sales engine. Closed marquee accounts personally while building the team.
Built marketing function from zero. Positioned against global telco giants. Won JP Morgan and CitiBank. Supported fundraising and expansion to 13 countries.
Unified 30-year rivals into award-winning partnership. Built integrated go-to-market and ABM programme targeting Fortune 500.
Created 36-country engagement programme. Built narrative linking transition strategy to stakeholder priorities. Unlocked access to previously closed bid.
Agencies give you a team — often juniors — executing a playbook. This is direct access to senior strategic counsel. I work as part of your leadership team, not as a vendor delivering reports. The goal is building your capability, not creating dependency.
Typically 2-4 days per week, depending on your needs. Enough to drive real strategic change without the cost of a full-time CCO or CMO. Most engagements run 6-12 months — long enough to build something lasting, short enough to stay focused.
Series B-C is precisely when senior PR and marketing leadership becomes critical. You've proven product-market fit; now you need to scale systematically. The alternative is hiring someone too junior and losing 12 months learning what doesn't work.
Primarily technology — AI, SaaS, fintech, cybersecurity. Also professional services and companies going through transformation. The common thread is growth-stage businesses that need senior counsel, not another agency relationship.
If you're a Series B-C company that's outgrown your current approach, let's have a conversation. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest assessment of whether we're a good fit.
Book a diagnostic callI've spent twenty years watching talented founders waste runway on PR and marketing that doesn't work. Junior teams executing playbooks designed for someone else's company. Agencies billing for activity, not outcomes. Strategic advice disconnected from commercial reality.
I started Fifty Six Partners because I believe growth-stage companies deserve better. You've done the hard work of building something people want. Now you need a partner who can help you tell that story — someone who's been in the room for £100M+ in fundraising, who's built marketing functions from zero to scale, who knows what works because they've done it.
I don't believe in long sales processes or elaborate proposals. If there's a fit, we'll both know it quickly. And if there isn't, I'll tell you that too — along with what I think you should do instead.
— Mark Pinnes, Founder