Robert C. Rhodes Email & Phone Number

Sugar Land, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

As Head of Sales and Business Development at ThreatGEN, I am responsible for driving the company's business development and sales efforts for the company's flagship product, the ThreatGEN® Red vs. Blue cybersecurity gamification platform. Specifically, I have:- Driven sales from $0 to over $600,000 with interim services as a stop gap to early-stage VC funding.- Increased annually recurring revenue (ARR) from $0 to over $250,000.- Created a partner program from the ground up and recruited over 10 partners.- Defined the product offering and had sole discretion over pricing.- Successfully transitioned ThreatGEN from services to sole focus on its product.

Houston, Texas, Us

As the Acting CFO for ThreatGEN, an operational technology / industrial cybersecurity consulting and training company, I have been responsible for financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. I have also:- Reduced risks by implementing proper professional liability insurance- Decreased professional and legal costs by thoroughly reviewing all legal documents- Successfully negotiated multiple service master services agreements (MSA) with clients.- Enhanced employee by retaining a Professional Employers Organization (PEO).- Successfully closed 2 rounds of financing.- Recruited and created a world-class board of directors for the cybersecurity company.- Provided 3 years of shareholder communications.

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

As Managing Member of DSV Consulting LLC (previously known as Rhodes Holdings LLC), I have provided management consulting services to companies transitioning to higher growth models. I have employed my project management skills, experience leading publicly traded companies as CEO, and business analysis skills gained in software development to help my clients achieve their growth goals.DSV Consulting LLC is a merchant banking and management consulting firm that also offers fundraising support for almost every project we work on. My team has a long history of success with a wide range of projects, including bringing over 17 public companies to the public markets, completing over 41 restructuring projects and achieving a market capitalization of $250,000,000 in just 34 days.

The American Equity Fund LLC (AEF) provided Equity Line Facilities (ELF) for SEC reporting publicly traded small-cap companies. AEF addressed the issues associated with ELF underwriters by implementing a reasonable PUT funds’ delivery schedule, not selling shares short, not owning more than 5% of an ELF issuer's stock, and creating a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for each ELF issuer. We achieved:- Funded over $50 million with more than 20 clients- Successfully navigated clients through bankruptcy and acquisitions.- Helped 5 clients become publicly traded.- Managed SEC counsels and auditors in each offering.

American Liberty Petroleum Corp. (OREO) was a micro-cap oil & gas development company, publicly traded under symbol 'OREO'. While in my position as CEO & President, I achieved the following:- Merged with Avant Diagnostics, a biotech company with intellectual property valued over $10M.- Secured funding as part of merger.- Completed SEC merger disclosure.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

As the founder and president of Systems Evolution Inc. (SEI), I have:- Founded SEI in 1993 as a training company focused on providing computer software development training in client server development methodologies.- In early years, provided 10 trainers and up to 25 contract employees to IT organizations implementing systems written in Powersoft's PowerBuilder, integrated with databases from Sybase, Oracle, and Microsoft.- Became known for "failed project recovery" and delivering this service for clients such as EDS AccuPlant Project, EDS American Express Project, and various projects for clients such as Valero, PG&E, MONY, and SouthWire.- Transitioned to a partnership focused on delivering full-time employees to clients using Java and implementation using SilverStream's Java platform and maturing sales and recruiting process.In 2003, the company executed a reverse merger to become a reporting, publicly traded company (OTCBB). During that time, we accomplished the following:- Purchased 5 companies including AXP Technologies Inc., eLead Solutions Inc., San Antonio based CMS Technology Services LLC, Next Hire Consultants Inc., and Austin based Duration Software Inc.- Had over 100 fulltime employees and contractors.- Had a revenue run rate of over $20,000,000.- Received recognition as #1 fastest growing technology company in Houston Texas by Houston Business Journal at their 2005 Fast Tech 50 event.

As a Partner at Software Integration Consulting Group, I was in charge of training for this software development firm, where I:- Developed and led the training organization, recruited a training center and funded the entire organization through personal delivery of training.- Achieved $750,000 in annual training revenue, growing from $0 in sales.- Successfully funded the entire organization.- The firm developed and sold the first client server GUI widget for drop-down listing of multi-million row data sets.

Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Software developer with BSG Alliance / IT, before becoming a lead team developer, and working on BSG’s groundbreaking “BluePrint Architecture”. Transitioned to the training team and became part of the largest high end IT training organization at the time. Highest grossing instructor teaching “start” classes of 35 students (10 of 30 days).- Delivered over $1,500,000 of classes annually (personally)- Was in first Microsoft SQL Server teaching certification class- Certified to teach Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase SQL Server, and Powersoft PowerBuilder

Grapevine, Texas, Us

During college, I worked selling computer software as an Associate at Babbage's Inc., a predecessor company of Gamestop. I progressed to the position of Assistant Floating Regional Manager, the highest position a non-full-time employee could hold. In this role, I assisted the Regional Manager (over southern Texas) in working with troubled retail outlets. I worked at Babbage's until 1999.