Colin Rhodes
VP Business Development EMEA at Tensordyne
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Rhodes is a seasoned business development and sales leader with over three decades of experience scaling high-technology network infrastructure businesses across EMEA, APAC and the US. He has a proven knack for winning seven-figure initial deals and building teams of 4–30 people at pre-IPO and growth-stage companies, driving annual run rates up to $100M and contributing to over $1B in optical DWDM sales. Known and trusted across IP, optical and subsea networking, he maintains 20+ year relationships with senior industry contacts and has repeatedly won strategic first customers that catalysed acquisitions. Equally comfortable in hands-on technical leadership and global go-to-market roles, he has led subsea consortium upgrades and global webscale engagements for Nokia and spearheaded market development at Infinera. Currently founder of a stealth optics startup and VP Business Development for Eridu, he blends startup grit with proven enterprise dealcraft—a rare mix of deep technical credibility and commercial instinct.
12 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
HND, Electronic Engineering and Computing, HND, Electronic Engineering and Computing at De Montfort UniversityWreake Valley Academy
Github Skills (10)
percentage10
rollout7
redis7
feature-flags7
ruby6
java5
simple-framework4
django4
python3
celery3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
colin-rhodes/docker-matlab-mcr
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 5 days
colin-rhodes/django-sprinklers
May 2019 - May 2019
A simple framework for bulletproof distributed tasks with Django and Celery.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
pythonredissimple-frameworkdjangodistributed-tasks
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