Bio

Matt Brandenburg has spent the last 20 years doing what most marketing leaders only pretend to enjoy — building things from scratch, fixing what’s broken, and convincing entire organizations to fall in love with strategy.

Currently serving as Head of Marketing at PLS Logistics Services, Matt leads a team of creative gladiators and data whisperers who turn freight into stories, analytics into action, and chaos into campaigns. His day job is to make sure PLS looks like the 3PL industry’s smartest brand; his night job (and arguably his favorite) is trying to keep the ideas in his head from creating yet another company.

Before joining PLS, Matt took GLS US from a solid carrier to a full-network powerhouse — scaling its drop-off network by 3,000 percent in less than a year. That’s not a typo; he really does treat percentages like dares. He also transformed marketing from a cost center into a revenue engine, mostly by refusing to accept that “brand awareness” can’t have an ROI.

He previously served as CMO at Clutch Solutions, where his team doubled revenue year over year, and as Founder/President of Brandendo, where he somehow convinced an entire agency to run on caffeine, creativity, and automation scripts. Both Brandendo and his earlier venture PopClickle were acquired — proof that his brand of eccentricity occasionally pays off.

Through Mockingburg, his long-running consultancy, Matt continues to advise businesses that want to grow without losing their soul (or their sanity). His approach blends experience, intuition, and the occasional “what if we just…” moment that turns into a million-dollar idea.

He’s part marketer, part engineer, part motivational chaos gremlin — and entirely uninterested in “business as usual.”

When he’s not leading, mentoring, or dismantling outdated marketing funnels, Matt can be found experimenting with new tech, overanalyzing brand psychology, or probably giving a pep talk that somehow ends with a car analogy.

In short: Matt Brandenburg builds brands that move, teams that think, and strategies that don’t just look good on slides — they work. And if it sounds a little unorthodox? That’s by design.