ABOUT US

Juliette Denny, Managing Director

Juliette's career has been spent in sales and sales management - building and growing businesses both in the USA and Europe, including taking an internet company from start-up to NASDAQ IPO Fairmarket, growing multimedia sales for Kingfisher multimedia division from £2m turnover to £126 million turnover, and starting her own software distribution company at 25. Juliette holds a BA Hons in Marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University, a post-grad certificate in Operations and Finance from Harvard University and is currently finishing her masters thesis for a MA in Government also from Harvard University. Juliette formed Growth Engineering in 2003 and since then has worked closely with business principals and sales leaders in many different companies.

Simon Blackburn, Sales Director

Simon has extensive experience of sales strategy, operations and leadership in various vertical markets. His career history includes: Sales Director of a £80M IT Reseller of hardware and solutions into Public Sector markets. He led a 60-strong sales team and delivered significant growth. MD/Sales and Marketing Director of £50M Imaging Distributor and Reseller. He delivered a successful change programme moving the business from it's traditional channels and delivering significant growth in evolving markets including the Grocery non-food sector, Dotcoms and direct B2B. This hands-on, direct experience ensures that the Growth Engineering product portfolio is developed in line with what the sales functions in organisations need and can benefit from.

James Middleton, Technical Director

Responsible for the design, development and management of SDZ. An experienced web-designer and developer since 2001 and 1996 within the New Media sector, James is an expert in web optimization and usability and is a guest lecturer at Coventry University.

 

 

 

Bruce Graham, Head of eLearning and Content

Bruce is our resident eLearning expert. He has a wide range of experience in large, medium and small businesses, and has designed, authored and deployed 2500+ eLearning modules, tests and quizzes for sales, sales support, marketing, Induction Programmes, Product Introductions and Soft Skills. Bruce has worked in a variety of Sales Operations and Training roles - including Head of Global Sales Development and Training at Amdocs, and Senior Education Services Consultant responsible for Staff and Partner eLearning (EMEA) at Oracle Corporation UK Ltd.

Patrick West, eLearning Manager

Since 2003, Patrick has worked in a variety of training roles, covering both operations and sales.  These have included induction training, upskilling of employees and corrective training.  Patrick's most recent experience prior to joining Growth Engineering was training with a global, solutions-based sales team, concentrating on the EMEA region for Dell Corporation, a Fortune 500 technology company.  This included work on skills training, product training and systems & process training, and the development of eLearning materials for a global library.  Patrick is currently studying for a BA Honours degree with The Open University.