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United Kingdom, Emea, Usa & International

Specialising in the establishment of sales, technical and business operations for international technology vendors here in the UK and EMEA. Providing a launchpad for new technology companies who are looking at the EMEA marketplace as their next phase in sales and business development. The services provided cover all aspects of UK/EMEA sales, business and technical operations development, pivotal in successful establishment of good business foundations. Whilst strategically managing a very low cost base in order to provide the earliest start to profitable operations, often initially preferable to a full recruitment program. Supporting all aspects of in-theatre launches and implementation of go-to-market strategies. Includes marketing, public relations, due diligence new customer acquisition, new product launches, market seeding through PoCs, product sales to media awareness campaigns. Development of new customer bases for vendors by building direct, indirect and distribution routes to market. Vendor customers included NetDevices Inc, Divitas Networks, Promon, cPacket Networks, FoxTechnologies and Avenda Systems and others listed below.Cirrustek also works with more established technology and engineering companies to rejuvenate revenue streams, improve sales and business success where perhaps there has been some operational stagnation.Through our partner relationships we offer access to hardware and software development resources to complete those key projects which may need fulfilment in short timeframes and are cost sensitive.

Uk And International

CTO/PartnerLong standing close collaboration partner bringing accelerated success rates and adding realised value to customer business.

Uk

Technical Presales and Business Consultant - Pre/post sales technical consulting for cPacket Networks here in the UK. Set up the UK business for cPacket and selling cPacket's highly advanced network monitoring, performance and observability solutions into the low latency environments into key of a number of key global Finance market customers, with significant success. Developing the sales landscape in the UK into new customers and supplying support and upgrade to existing customers. Customer based activities range from running PoCs programmes, responding to and producing RFI/RFP documentation, design, implementation and rollout programs. Setting up a product import system into the UK for the vendor, as well as working with, developing and training new resellers for new routes to market. Other actives include providing the infrastructure and support for technical shows such as InterOp in the USA - New York & Las Vegas. cPacket products provide access to high speed monitoring and analysis for access speeds up to 100GB - having the ability to perform forensic analysis at line rates with zero performance impact in low latency finance and trading environments.Technology: High Performance fibre optic Networking 10G/40G/100G: Network Performance forensics and analysis: Analysis tools: High accuracy network timing - GPS/NTP/PTP