Unrivalled people - our strength, your resource
Unrivalled results - our goal, your bottom line

Breakthrough Results is a team of former sales and service directors and managers of multinational companies, and principals and partners of top consulting firms who bring best practice skills and ideas from the Global 500 and Professional Service firms to be applied on your behalf.

Our people are our differentiators – trustworthy, great to work with, experienced, proven achievers with innovative ideas, problem solvers and deliverers of breakthrough results. We have no ‘red braces.’ Click on a photo below to find out a bit more about The Team here at Breakthrough Results.

Our clients always come first – understanding and matching your needs with our knowledge, experience and skills.

  • paul cherrett
  • nick goode
  • Mike Griffiths
  • ian perry
  • john griffiths
  • david mckeigue
  • peter mackey
  • james thorne
  • phil allen
  • phil allen

Paul Cherrett, MA. - MD Breakthrough Results

Specialisation: Growth and sales, strategy & operations, transformational change

Career:

  • IBM:
    Sales: International Key Account Manager, European Strategy Manager
    Global Services: Principal Consultant and Business Development Manager
  • Newburn Consulting: Sales & Business Development Director
  • Chartered Institute of Marketing: Head of Consulting & Training
  • Central Government: Organisational Change Consultant – education, health, criminal justice
  • Miller Heiman: Qualified Consultant and Systems Deliverer

Clients include:
Alcatel, AnIX, Bank of England, Cable & Wireless, Central Government (education, health, justice), Damovo, Energis, ESRI UK, Financial Services, HSBC, IBM, IDBS, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Prudential, Telemonde, Thames Water, Ultra Electronics, Unipart, Vodafone.

MA in Economics from Cambridge University

Nick Goode, BSc.

Specialisation: Sales, customer service, M&A, strategy, operations, turnaround, interim management

Career:

  • Centrica: Sales Director
  • Siemens: Customer Services Director, Sales Director
  • Mitel: Sales Director
  • First Computer: National Sales Manager
  • Norfrond: Director, General Manager
  • NCR: UK Sales Manager

Clients include:
Alchemy, Blick, Central and Regional Government (DTI), Centrica, Equant, Ericsson, Esprit Europe, MRM, Racal, Redstone, Siemens, Sun, Taylor Nelson, Teledynamics.

Mike Griffiths, MBA.

Specialisation: Professional services, strategy, change, business development

Mike lectures at Kellogg Business School on the Executive MBA program on breakthroughs in organisational performance.

Career:

  • PDN & CSI (Director): Strategy, change, professional services, personal development
  • JMW Cons. (Principal): Strategy implementation (oil & gas),technology, M&A, innovation
  • Booz Allen: Change management

Clients include:
AT Kearney, Alcatel, American Express, BASF, BP, BT. Capital MArkets Company, Cisco, Diamond Cluster, EDS Halliburton, HP, IBM,NEstle, Nokia, Phillips, Time Warner, Universal (Polygram), WHSmith.

MBA from Henley Business School (top of year award); BA in Music from London University

Ian Perry, BA.

Specialisation: Miller Heiman sales system and processes, team based selling and account management, sales training and performance coaching.

Career:

  • Miller Heiman: Sales Management Consultant
  • Microgen plc: Business Development Manager
  • Ciber Inc: Sales Consultant
  • Essential Computing: National Account Manager
  • DHL International: Account Director (Middle East)

Clients include:
Canon Europe, Saudi Telecom, Ultra Electronics, ESRI UK, Unipart Group, T-Systems, Giesecke & Devrient, Wincor Nixdorf, Ryder plc, Pioneer Investments, SITA, Maersk Group

BA in Business Studies from London University

John Griffiths, BA Middle east partner, based Dubai

Specialisation: Project and change management, BPR (SAP, ERP), IT, planning, balanced scorecard, MRP, risk management

Career:

  • Management Consultant: Over 25 years experience in a wide variety of disciplines and sectors
  • Aircraft engineering: Senior Production, Operations & Project Manager

Client sectors:
Public Sector (Central & Local Government); Finance; Air Transport; Manufacturing; Engineering; MoD; Health; Logistics; Retail; Process Industry; Sport & Leisure; Food Production; Education; Mining; Public Transport.

David McKeigue, BA

Specialisation: General board level management, sales management, growth and BD, turnaround, set up, restructuring, interim management.

Career:

  • Westell Inc: Managing Director, Europe
  • Damovo Gp, SA: General Manager, UK
  • Alcatel: VP & GM, Carrier Internetworking Division
    VP & GM, Enterprise Sales, EMEA
  • Newbridge: AVP, Enterprise Sales, UK Sales Director, UK Sales Manager, Key Accounts Sales Manager, Southern Region
  • Timeplex: Sales Manager, UK
  • Deloitte: Accountant

BA in Economics from Reading University

Peter Mackey, BA

Specialisation:Polyurethane industry (business and technical); sales and marketing; business and product development

Career:

  • Dow Chemicals: Sales & Marketing Manager; European product development manager;
  • PM Consulting: Principal Partner; commercial, design, technology solutions
  • BP: Process Development Manager
  • Marley Floors
  • Lankro Chemicals
  • Baxenden Chemicals
  • Asia Polyurethane

1st class honours, Brunel University

James Thorne, MA, MBA

Specialisation:Executive Coaching; leadership, business strategy, marketing and brand management

Career:

  • Market Focus: founder & MD – executive training & coaching, including 360 degree surveys, Myers-Briggs, Firo-B, Learning Styles, Leadership Derailer and Team Climate
  • Strat*X: founder & MD - business strategy & marketing; simulations; action oriented management training
  • taught on Executive Programmes at INSEAD (France), Ashridge, MCE, Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM UK)

Clients: 50+ leading companies across almost every sector of business in 40 different countries, including: ArcelorMittal, BASF, BP, BT, DaimlerChrysler, Dow Chemical, Ericsson, GE; GM; IBM, Mars, NokiaSiemens, Novartis, Rio Tinto, Shell Oil, St. Gobain & Volkswagen.

MBA, Honours, INSEAD; MA, Modern Languages, Cambridge University; bilingual English/French, fluent German, a little Arabic.

Phil Allen, BA, MCIM

Specialisation:Global marketing and sales excellence; Customer Value Management; profitability; sustainable differentiation; improved customer loyalty and retention; B2B, B2B2C; personal development; leadership.

Career:

  • Founder & owner, GEMS EUROPE Gmbh
  • Founder & CEO, Marketability
  • Dow Chemicals; Global leader, market planning

Clients: multiple international clients in chemicals, plastics, other manufacturing, energy, oil, downstream markets, pharmaceuticals, construction, health care, travel, transportation

John McKenzie, MBA

Specialisation:sales and marketing, leadership, growth strategies, channel strategies for acquisitions.

Career:

  • Consultant: indirect channel strategy, acquisitions, sales management, leadership
  • Vopak NV: Head of European acquisition
  • Univar Europe: European President; VP Sales & Operations
  • Ellis & Everard: UK Chemicals MD; Sales & Operations Director

BA, University of London; MBA, De Montfort University; Member, Institute of Management

"If company executives, investment bankers and Private Equity partners seriously prioritised sales strategy and operational sales best practices at the highest level, how much more profitable would their deals and companies become?"

Paul Cherrett