Meet us
Throughline is a storytelling company helping businesses cope and connect. Based in London, the companies we serve are typically globally minded: from ambitious cross-border ventures and emerging multinationals to publicly quoted market stalwarts.
We make our home in Clerkenwell Workshops, a former watch factory in a once-light industrial neighbourhood situated between Bloomsbury in the west and the City in the east.
Kate Hammer, director
Founder Kate Hammer uses leadership principles -- including active listening, analytical reframing, and storytelling -- to devise marketing campaigns that change what others choose.
An experienced marketing communications consultant and natural storyteller, she has worked in a wide variety of commercial, arts and NGO settings for nearly 20 years. With a passion for innovation, informed decision-making and exquisite design, Kate seeks out companies that make an enduring difference to their clients and beneficiaries – particularly in the fields of business information, industrial technology and professional services.
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Indy Neogy
Indranath Neogy is a specialist in internal and cross-cultural communications. Trained as a rocket scientist at MIT before launching a successful career as an action photographer, Indy joined the corporate world to design and roll out a cross-border, multi-lingual knowledge management system at European telco ISH. During his MBA at Leeds University Indy specialized in innovation, cross-cultural dynamics and knowledge management, going on to become an associate of their Centre for Innovation in Health Management. He has worked since as an independent consultant advising firms on the dynamics of co-operation between business units and newly merged entities. In 2009 Indy joined Throughline leading projects with D&B and BDP, bringing with him experience in energy, financial services, healthcare, media, telecoms and professional services firms spanning five countries on three continents.
...and our associates
Simon Davies
Brand strategist Simon Davies has spent 13 years building brands and campaigns for commercial, non-profit and public sector organisations through the independent consultancy DogStar he co-founded with designer Paul Turner. Three-time winner of the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, DogStar has an unbeatable client retention rate (more than two-thirds of its clients have engaged them for 3+ years). In an industry where budgets tend to be governed by short-term campaign thinking, Simon has sustained fruitful conversations with a wide range of marketing and HR managers, business and brand owners. For more about DogStar's eye-catching, effective work, please visit www.dogstardesign.co.uk
Belden Menkus
Belden is the founder and Managing Director of MenKus & Associates, specialists in rapid strategic response to the challenges of the current Age of Discontinuity. For more than 25 years, he has inspired, coached, and advised business leaders on issues of business direction and strategy implementation. A published author, Belden has been quoted as an expert on strategy and innovation in the FT, Director, American Banker, and New Media Age. Starting his career with McKinsey & Company, he worked with clients in the UK, Europe, US and Japan across a wide range of service and manufacturing industries, before CSC Index recruited Belden to help create and deliver a breakthrough methodology for business re-engineering. He founded MenKus & Associates in 2003 to provide business leaders with tailored, no-nonsense support to help them achieve their most important results quickly, reliably and cost effectively. For more on Belden’s work, please visit www.menkus.net.
David Thompson
David helps people communicate more clearly, perform more effectively and make the most of the opportunities in their work. An experienced coach and a certified trainer of NLP, David draws upon 15 years of experience in public relations, corporate communications and business management to help clients harness their personal and professional resources for peak performance. David is also an experienced actor and director of Shakespeare's plays. For more about his work, please visit www.totalawarenesscoaching.com
- 1992 B.A. English, Davidson College
- 1999 M.A. Shakespearean Theatre, U of Essex
- Certified Master Coach, Behavioural Coaching Institute, Perry Zeus & Susannah Skiffington
- Certified Trainer of NLP - Trained and Certified by John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair, and Michael Carroll
Simon Williams
Simon Williams is changing how companies envision and adapt their business strategies. As CEO and co-founder of a software and services firm called SmithBayes that spun-out from the Formula 1 racing team McLaren, Simon has applied race strategy technology to complex, real-time decision making in Global 2000 firms. Before SmithBayes, Simon was a Partner in Kleindahl Partners, a London based boutique consulting firm applying options pricing, risk evaluation, dynamic scenarios and portfolio analytics to strategic business development. Previously, he founded (and then sold) software firm Nerve Wireless having spent two years as VP Strategy & Technology at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam, after starting his career at Reuters. Simon’s interest in ‘agile strategy’ – the ability to learn and adapt faster as real world events unfold - has led to regular features in the press, including the BBC, Financial Times, Time magazine, BusinessWeek, CNBC and Strategy Magazine.