Profound technical and operational transformation will drive value creation over the coming years. Icebreaker Executive was founded in 2005 to meet these emerging challenges. We have the laser like customer focus and dynamism of an owner managed business, comprised of the best team of highly motivated situation specialists. We are organised to meet the challenges private equity and other ambitious organisations face; CASH GENERATION and other tough often global challenges. We want people to build profits ... but we do it in a way that is aligned with our customer's values.
We apply our award winning and extensive multi sector turnaround, business change and improvement experience across all key functional areas to seamlessly engage respectfully with businesses that find themselves at a crossroads: customer service issues, working capital / supply chain agility, market conditions, cash flow problems, change in direction, debt re-financing, capital raising, business expansion, business model inflexibility to both SME and FT100.
"These qualities forge our unique organizational identity that is externally focused and made up of resourceful people who think like owners, relish accountability for delivery and teamwork, and are wired to win.” . Tom Pickering CEO
There are many good businesses unaware of 2012s emerging complex threats that will unnecessarily fail by being unable to navigate through new challenges, fail to ask key questions early, can't find the right solution, and simply act too late. Icebreaker have a Turnaround Panel to provide "a one stop shop" to integrate the elements of the solution to make a recovery. Our Differentiator is our integrity, respect for clients, people focus, the vast breadth of leading edge sector experience readily available in our select network via the nominated icebreaker team customer contact. Typical cash returns are 10x - 50x.
Programs are structured to ensure engagements are cash positive, leave a refreshed team & optimal productivity, by mobilising our customers untapped resources to deliver programs using minimal external support.
Like a tin can phone we like to communicate: simply, clearly and honestly.
“Your approach harks back to a period of genuine competence” … Peter Brown turnaround investor and CEO
"Many have tried to achieve what you have put in place but I don’t know of anyone else apart from you who has actually succeeded in creating something like Icebreaker: a credible and effective partnership of interims that covers a sufficiently wide spectrum of skills and experience, as well as a consistent level of expertise and track record, which can really project a coherent brand image and offer clients a very attractive alternative to the usual big consultancies". Paul S (Author and M&A expert)
