About Gordon G. Andrew
Advisor to boutique professional services and B2B advisory firms seeking stronger credibility, authority, and visibility in a changing discovery environment.
For more than two decades, Gordon Andrew has advised professional services and specialized B2B advisory firms on how to strengthen market credibility, differentiate their expertise, and generate meaningful client engagement.
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His work focuses on helping firms clarify their positioning, build visible authority in their fields, and strengthen the signals that influence how expertise is discovered and evaluated in today’s research-driven environment.
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As buyers increasingly rely on thought leadership, executive visibility, digital authority, and AI-assisted research to identify credible advisors, many highly capable firms find that their expertise remains difficult to detect outside their existing networks. Gordon works with those firms to strengthen the credibility, authority, and visibility signals that drive recognition, engagement, and opportunity.
Professional Background
Gordon G. Andrew has more than 25 years of experience in marketing communications. Today, he advises boutique professional services and specialized B2B advisory firms on how to strengthen credibility, authority, and visibility — the signals that increasingly drive market engagement and lead generation in a changing discovery environment.
On the corporate side, Gordon most recently served as senior vice president at Prudential Financial, responsible for marketing communications across the company's 5 operating units.
Prior to that, he served as CEO Sanford I. Weill's head of communications at Travelers Group (now Citigroup), and as Chief Marketing Officer of Travelers Life & Annuity. Previously, he served as director of marketing services at The American Stock Exchange and as director of financial communications at Continental Group, an NYSE-listed company.
On the agency side, prior to founding Highlander Consulting Inc., a Princeton, New Jersey-based B2B marketing communications consulting firm, Gordon was vice president at Investor Access Corp. and president of The Weiser Group's New York City office, a Chicago-based marketing consultancy. Notably, he founded and, for more than a decade, served as the managing partner of The PR Consulting Group, a Manhattan-based marketing communications firm.
He has served as communications counsel for broad range of well-known clients including American Airlines, Russell Renolds Associates, Pitney Bowes, Principal Financial Group, Bain & Co., Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Business, Phibro Energy, The New York Stock Exchange, Prudential Venture Capital, The Government of Israel, VITAS Healthcare, and law firms including Epstein, Becker & Green, and McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter. He has also counseled or served as an outsourced CMO for several emerging growth companies, including Capital Forensics, Premier Financial Services, Quinte Financial Technologies, BarclayHedge, Dynamic Technology Solutions, CAP Index, and Connextions Health.
Gordon has strong working relationships with media sources around the globe, and is often engaged to manage sensitive crisis situations and damage control in media firestorms -- exemplified by his assignment as spokesperson for the former CFO of Enron Corp.
He has published numerous articles in leading professional publications and is a frequent speaker on marketing-related topics. Gordon was admitted to the elite Counselors Academy of the Public Relations Society of America and is a recipient of the Individual Investors Association's prestigious Nicholson Award. He has earned industry recognition for his ability to convert thought leadership into tangible business outcomes for clients.
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Gordon was designated as an Outstanding Eagle Scout by the National Eagle Scout Association, and currently serves as Chair of the National Communications Committee for Scouting America. He is the host of the GolfYeah podcast, a member of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association, and a bagpiper in the CuChullain Pipe Band.
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