Rupert Collier

Current

• Product Manager at COMPUTERLINKS (UK) Ltd.

Past

• Sales Executive at Getech Ltd.
• Sales Executive, Central Europe at Optoma Ltd.

Education

• University of St. Andrews
• Ampleforth

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Computer Software

Rupert Collier’s Experience

• Product Manager

  COMPUTERLINKS (UK) Ltd.

  (Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  Vendor management (team management, marketing, sales, vendor relations, administration, reporting etc.) for Citrix, Google, ThinPrint and RES Software within leading UK software distributor.
  
  Citrix = End to end virtualisation and application delivery infrastructure solutions.
  Google = Hosted email security and archiving.
  ThinPrint = printing solutions for distributed networks, Citrix environments and virtualised infrastructures.
  RES Software = Windows workspace management, both users and devices, physical and virtual.
  
  Increased Citrix revenues by 40% in 2006, by another 60% in 2007 and by another 70% in 2008. Hit all targets set, both by employer and vendor, since Q1 05. Won award for Citrix Fastest Growing Distributor of the Year in 2005 and 2007 (and was second fastest growing in 2006 and 2008).
  
  Currently involved in establishing a reseller channel for Google Message Security.

• Sales Executive

  Getech Ltd.

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  August 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Thin Client sales - increased business within allotted set of (previously un-managed) accounts by 305% in one year.

• Sales Executive, Central Europe

  Optoma Ltd.

  (Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)

  July 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 2 months)

  Territory Manager for Thin Client sales in France, Germany and Spain. Responsible for establishment of channel in these countries for vendor with next to no market share. Despite challenges, succeeded in signing up approximately 25-30 new partners across Europe. However, the Thin Client division was disbanded before any meaningful sales could be generated.

Rupert Collier’s Education

• University of St. Andrews

  1993 — 1996

• Ampleforth

  A-Levels , Languages, Music, Religion , 1985 — 1993

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