THRIVE was founded by Dean Oakley who has been working in web design and development on the Gold Coast and in London since 2004. Dean received 1st Class Honours in a Bachelor of IT at Griffith University on the Gold Coast in 2004. Dean oversees all the technical aspects and design of our projects.

Jake develops new client relationships, as well as working on design, content updates and branding. He brings with him a huge amount of media experience and charm.

Saxon is a talented artist and illustrator who has honed his development skills at THRIVE to become a kick-ass Font-end Developer. You could call him a WordPress wizard–he does!

An all-around creative, specialising in brand identity, print design, web design, typography, packaging and illustration. Ambre’s sensitive approach to clients motivations, ideas and inspirations helps generate a unique and effective visual message that resonates.

Alex is our WordPress guru who has over the years, worked across a diverse range of technologies and brands. For over 7 years he Alex been working as a senior developer taking on high end, complex web based projects.

Teresa is a very talented graphic, web designer, illustrator and frontend developer from Spain. We are constantly blown away by her engaging and creative designs.

Our talented young Web Design Wizard. Sam is naturally creative, technically skilled with a great eye for design.

Our beautiful new web designer. Justina has years of UX design experience and creates slick functional designs.

Our master debugger. With lightning fast typing, no one can code as fast as Danny. Lover of React and Javascript.

The better half of our Canadian front end development duo. Amber can code up websites blindfolded.

He's back on our team after a little break and is our lead creative thinker.

Our beautiful in-house administrator. She keeps the office sane through her vital contribution to client and admin services.

A budding young designer who has dazzled us with his use of the Adobe Suite for a range of web and print design projects.

Katherine wields a multi-discipline approach to her work at Thrive being both a degree qualified marketer and budding graphic designer.

Anton is our SEO and SEM guru. He brings a wealth of experience in the digital space and delivers amazing results for our clients.

Jody provides administration and financial support to Thrive. She brings organizational skills, attention to detail and strong customer service focus.