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Grow your business, with someone who has done it before.

Experienced Leadership at Work

Strategic guidance and focused execution, based on real-world experience.  Flexible executive leadership for your business, on an Interim, Fractional, or Consulting basis.

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Tedestra is the vehicle through which Colin Annette provides these services, based on his extensive real-world experience.

Our Services

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Interim Business Unit MD / VP

Access business leadership skills and experience, for a fixed or flexible period of time, to cover urgent business requirements.  We can perform from day 1, without the overhead of longer-term induction (e.g. cover for maternity leave, or urgent backfill of a key role, while a longer-term replacement is sought).

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Fractional Executive

Secure an experienced and committed executive, fully part of your team, but on a part-time basis  (e.g. to establish and lead the growth of a new line of business, or entry into a new market, requiring only two days per week, initially). 

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Consulting Services

The most flexible support of all, addressing specific projects, tasks, or challenges, for as long as is required (e.g. mapping out a go-to-market plan for a new product).

OUR MISSION MATTERS

At Tedestra, we specialise in technology-based, defence-industry clients, focused on P&L growth and management to enhance clients' business performance.

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We do what we do, because we believe deeply in our clients' mission.

SOME PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

BT plc (London) - Telecoms

  • Full £400m P&L ownership, covering 1,200 UK-based resellers and service providers, and delivering 14% organic growth.

  • Repositioned an unloved business unit as the key growth driver for the BT Wholesale division, winning several industry awards.

  • Established a new Managed Solutions business line and won landmark deals totaling £1bn.

  • Negotiated enormously beneficial regulatory changes, creating an open and constructive relationship with the UK comms regulator and with BT's competitors and wholesale customers.

  • Established a new product team, with global scope.

  • Developed and launched new, award-winning, global connectivity products, delivering over 50m Euros new revenue in year 1 and 50m Euros group-wide annual cost savings.

  • Exceeded revenue and growth targets from a global half-billion-Euro enterprise WAN portfolio.

QinetiQ (Farnborough) - Defence

  • Established, led, grew and was wholly accountable for a new product-focused business unit, creating and taking-to-market leading-edge defence technologies.  Built to a £40m P&L.

  • Delivered major customer programmes and product developments, across Secure Communications, Sensing and PNT (position, navigation and timing).

Vodafone (Newbury) - Telecoms

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