African Born. Globally Proven.
Built for B2B Technology

We build the brand visibility, trust and demand generation capability that B2B technology companies need to drive commercial growth.

ProximityB2B brings together more than a decade of B2B technology marketing experience across high-growth startups and global hyperscalers. Our team has led brand, creative, demand generation and commercial marketing from within the technology sector, giving us a practical understanding of how marketing can be transformed from a cost centre into a measurable revenue engine.

We have an innate passion for working with challenger brands. We partner with ambitious technology and consulting companies that are ready to challenge established thinking, strengthen their market position and compete more effectively to bring their customers, partners and investors closer.

Our experience spans cybersecurity, SaaS, cloud, managed IT, application modernisation, sustainability technology and artificial intelligence. We work with founders, commercial leaders, technology executives and marketing teams to build the human and AI-powered capabilities that bring their businesses closer to the audiences that matter most.


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How we deliver value

Not every business needs the same kind of marketing support, and not every business is ready to build an internal team. For growing organisations, an experienced external partner typically delivers faster capability, lower fixed cost, and broader specialist depth than internal hiring alone. We work across three engagement models so the support you receive is matched precisely to where your business is and what it needs to grow.

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Areas of Expertise

Your buyers research longer, consult more stakeholders and increasingly shortlist providers through AI search before they speak to you. The B2B technology businesses that win are the ones with the clearest positioning, the most consistent market presence and marketing that is genuinely accountable to revenue. These are the five solutions we use to help you build that.

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Go-to-Market and Brand Strategy

Most B2B technology businesses have strong solutions and weak positioning. Buyers cannot tell what sets you apart, and that ambiguity costs you deals you should be winning. Our B2B go-to-market strategy work defines your ideal customer profile and buying committee, builds value propositions and messaging by segment and persona, and sets the brand strategy and GTM plan that carry them into market. The result is clearer differentiation and a plan leadership can commit to.

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B2B Brand Identity and Content

Buyers judge your credibility long before they speak to sales, and a dated brand or thin content quietly undermines both. We create B2B brand identities and visual systems, then the content marketing engine behind them, from thought leadership and sales enablement to campaign creative and video, in a human-led process that uses AI where it adds genuine value. The result is a technology brand that looks as strong as your solution, and content that builds trust and compounds.

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Website, SEO and AI Search

Buyers now research through Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity before they reach your website. If AI tools cannot find, understand and cite you, you miss the shortlist. We audit and rebuild your digital front door, from B2B website design and technical SEO to generative engine optimisation (GEO), answer engine optimisation (AEO), schema and content AI can quote with confidence. The result is a business that is found, understood and recommended wherever your buyers search.

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Demand Generation and RevOps

Marketing activity that cannot be traced to pipeline is the conversation most leadership teams are tired of having. We build B2B demand generation and account-based marketing (ABM) programmes across 1:1, 1:Few and 1:Many, then connect them through revenue operations: CRM, marketing automation, data and attribution. The result is sales and marketing aligned on the right accounts, a more predictable pipeline, and marketing ROI you can prove to the board.

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Partner and Channel Marketing

Partner revenue is often the most underdeveloped commercial asset a technology business holds. We design channel and alliance programmes, then build the joint value propositions, co-marketing campaigns and partner enablement that take shared solutions to market with hyperscalers, vendors, SIs, MSPs, MSSPs and VARs, with MDF-funded demand generation built to return measurable pipeline. The result is a partner ecosystem that becomes a scalable, accountable route to revenue.

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Our Labyrinth MethodologyTM

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Building genuine customer connection in complex B2B markets can feel like navigating a maze. Inspired by the philosophy of the Labyrinth, we built a methodology approach proven across a decade of B2B technology engagements, now refined for a market where human cognitive elegance and AI systems work as one. Grounded in the belief that brand and customer meet at the center, each stage offers a clear path to stronger alignment and lasting commercial results

1. Discover

We get under the skin of your vision, strategy, brand, and commercial performance, pairing deep market research with stakeholder engagement and data-led analysis. The result is a precise read on what is holding perform
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‍Outcome: Clear visibility into your vision, strategy, brand, and revenue performance, and what needs building to grow.

2. Design

We design the strategy, the go-to-market, and the route-to-market that will carry your business forward, aligning marketing and commercial leadership around clear priorities, messaging, and channel direction. Refined across real client engagements, this stage turns insight into a plan built to move confidently and decisively from strategy into execution.
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‍Outcome: A leadership-aligned strategy, sharp go-to-market priorities, and the readiness to execute cross-functionally with confidence.

3. Systemise

We architect the ecosystem where human cognition and artificial intelligence work as one,engineered to deliver at scale and speed. Marketing and brand intelligence systems span the LLMs connecting marketing, brand, DevOps, sales, and ecosystem partners, compressing time to market.
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‍Outcome: An interconnected human and AI ecosystem that gets your business to market faster.

4. Optimise

We continuously monitor and improve your performance across every human and AI marketing intelligence system, correcting what is not working and compounding what is, so your performance keeps improving as the market moves resulting in a greater return on your investment

‍Outcome: Continuous improvement across your human and AI marketing system
From insight and alignment to execution and optimization, our methodology is designed to strengthen your marketing strategy, bring your brand closer to the right customers, and connect marketing more clearly to business impact.

Challenges We Help Solve

The businesses that come to us are not struggling because their product is weak. They are struggling because their marketing is not keeping pace with their ambition, their market position, or the way their buyers make decisions.

  • You are losing deals to competitors you know you are better than, because your positioning does not communicate the difference clearly enough to a buyer weighing their options.
  • Your marketing is generating activity, but leadership cannot draw a clear line between that activity and pipeline, revenue, or growth, and that conversation is getting harder to have.
  • Your website and content were built for how buyers searched two years ago, not how they discover, evaluate, and validate providers today, including through AI-assisted tools.
  • Sales and marketing are not pulling in the same direction, and the friction is showing up in lead quality, hand-off processes, and budget conversations that should not be this difficult.
  • Your partner channel has commercial potential that is not converting, because the joint messaging, enablement, and go-to-market structure have not kept pace with the relationships you have built.

Why Proximity

Most marketing agencies understand marketing. Fewer understand B2B technology from the inside. Proximity was built by practitioners who have held senior roles across the world's leading technology brands, earned the industry's highest accreditations, and know how marketing earns its seat at the commercial table.

Practitioner Pedigree


Our founding team has held senior roles with leading global hyperscalers, and is accredited by both the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Digital Marketing Institute. We come from client side, understand complex solution sets, and know how marketing earns credibility with sales, technical teams, and the board.

Built for How Buying Works Today

We are designed for the way buyers discover and evaluate providers now, not five years ago. From AI-driven discovery and generative engine visibility to intent-led demand and modern marketing operations, we help B2B technology businesses compete in an environment that is shifting faster than most marketing programmes are built to handle.

Commercial Depth


The gap between marketing output and business growth is where most agency relationships break down. Proximity measures success by pipeline, revenue, and the commercial outcomes that matter to your leadership, not impressions or content volume. That changes how we set objectives, report performance, and decide which conversations are worth having.

B2B technology businesses rarely struggle because their solution is weak. They struggle because their marketing has not kept pace. The right partner knows your market, measures what matters, and keeps your marketing ahead of how buying is changing. Proximity is built to be that partner.
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Who you’ll
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Behind every Proximity engagement is a senior team that has worked inside complex B2B technology businesses, not just alongside them. You will work directly with strategists, brand and creative leads, technical marketing specialists, and data practitioners who know how to translate complex solutions into commercially compelling market positions. We support clients across Sub-Saharan Africa, the UK and Ireland, Europe, and Australia, combining global experience with the local understanding that makes marketing land. The goal is consistent across every market: bring the right customers closer, and connect marketing more clearly to revenue.

Meet The Team

Senior practitioners from across B2B technology marketing, brought together to connect technology businesses with the customers that matter most. Hover over or tap a profile to learn more.

Jonathan, Founder and CEO of ProximityB2B

Jonathan

Founder & CEO

Jonathan is the founder of ProximityB2B and a Chartered Marketer who leads marketing strategy for B2B tech, SaaS and professional services brands across multinational markets. His career includes senior leadership roles at Dimension Data, NTT and AWS, spearheading growth across EMEA, JAPAC and the UK and Ireland. He holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School and sits on the Marketing Advisory Council at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where he helps ensure marketing academia keeps pace with the latest AI developments.

Jonathan founded ProximityB2B to bring experienced commercial thinking and creative talent closer to businesses with ambitions to grow, combining global best practice with local relevance and a belief that marketing should make a meaningful contribution to revenue. Outside of work, he enjoys multi-discipline endurance events, cooking, painting and exploring the ocean.

Jonathan, Founder and CEO of ProximityB2B
Jonathan
Founder & CEO

Jonathan is the founder of ProximityB2B and a Chartered Marketer who leads marketing strategy for B2B tech, SaaS and professional services brands across multinational markets. His career includes senior leadership roles at Dimension Data, NTT and AWS, spearheading growth across EMEA, JAPAC and the UK and Ireland. He holds an Executive MBA from Henley Business School and sits on the Marketing Advisory Council at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where he helps ensure marketing academia keeps pace with the latest AI developments.

Jonathan founded ProximityB2B to bring experienced commercial thinking and creative talent closer to businesses with ambitions to grow, combining global best practice with local relevance and a belief that marketing should make a meaningful contribution to revenue. Outside of work, he enjoys multi-discipline endurance events, cooking, painting and exploring the ocean.

Tiaan, JAPAC Managing Director at ProximityB2B
Tiaan
JAPAC Managing Director

Tiaan is an experienced business and marketing professional with a BCom degree and a strong background in B2B marketing, brand development and business strategy. He has worked across a range of industries and markets, combining commercial insight with creative thinking to help businesses strengthen their brands, connect with customers and drive growth. Outside of work, Tiaan enjoys spending time outdoors with his family and is a passionate sports fan.

Katlego, Strategic Account Director at ProximityB2B
Katlego
Strategic Account Director

Katlego is a strategic marketing leader who works with businesses as a fractional CMO, Head of Marketing or Marketing Director. She has spent more than ten years in B2B tech marketing at Sage, NTT and Dimension Data, including go-to-market responsibility for portfolios worth more than £150m in annual recurring revenue. Her background covers strategy, positioning, pricing, technical products, demand generation and sales enablement. Outside of work, she loves the outdoors, hiking, running and CrossFit.

Amelia, Creative Director at ProximityB2B
Amelia
Creative Director

Amelia is a global designer and strategic thinker with more than 15 years of experience in the creative industry, working with global tech and SaaS brands including Dimension Data, Deloitte and NTT Data. Imagination, innovative thinking, creativity, resourcefulness, focus, belief, faith and a little bit of madness blend together into a melting pot from which her most incredible ideas become reality. Outside of the creative world, she enjoys a slower, more hands-on way of life through homesteading, baking sourdough and making sure her veggie garden is thriving.

JJ, Creative Director and Web Leader at ProximityB2B
JJ
Creative Director and Web Leader

Jean-Jacques is a creative leader and multidisciplinary designer with more than 15 years of experience across branding, digital design, web, motion and user experience. He has worked with organisations ranging from startups to global technology brands, helping translate complex ideas into engaging visual experiences. With a passion for both creativity and strategy, JJ specialises in building brands, designing digital experiences and creating content that connects with audiences and drives results. Outside of work, JJ loves adventure, from multi-day hiking to deep-sea diving in Sodwana Bay.

Anna-Bet, Editor and Content Strategist at ProximityB2B
Anna-Bet
Editor and Content Strategist

Anna is an experienced content strategist, copywriter and author with more than 15 years of experience creating SEO-driven, human-centred content for brands across technology, automotive, travel, education, FMCG and professional services. She specialises in translating complex topics into clear, engaging content that serves both readers and business goals. While she embraces AI as a research and productivity tool, she believes great content still requires human judgement, original thinking and a distinctive voice, which aligns closely with ProximityB2B’s human-led approach. Outside of work, she enjoys writing fiction in Afrikaans, exploring small towns and forgotten places, and spending time with her family in the Swartland.

Cheryl, Social Media and Campaigns at ProximityB2B
Cheryl
Social Media and Campaigns

Cheryl brings more than 20 years of experience in digital marketing, brand strategy, social media leadership and customer-centric communication. Her career spans global organisations, award-winning digital campaigns and hands-on consultancy work supporting small businesses with strategy, content and go-to-market execution. Cheryl has led digital transformation projects, built high-performing content ecosystems, managed multi-channel campaigns and developed brand personas and audience strategies that drive measurable growth. Her background includes senior roles at NTT Ltd, Fuse Factory and kulula.com, as well as running her own digital consultancy, mentoring entrepreneurs and designing marketing frameworks that deliver results. Outside of work, Cheryl has a deep passion for theatre and spending quality time with her family.

Riaan, Paid Media and Revenue Operations at ProximityB2B
Riaan
Paid Media & Revenue Operations

Riaan is a digital growth strategist with 15 years of experience across website development, lead generation, digital advertising, SEO, hosting and workflow automation. At ProximityB2B, he helps clients bring these capabilities together to build a stronger digital presence and support business growth. He works closely with clients from the first conversation through to delivery and ongoing support, combining technical expertise with a practical understanding of their commercial goals. His approach centres on understanding the business, identifying opportunities and building solutions that are useful, reliable and focused on results.

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