Nicholas Cole
About Nicholas Cole
Nicholas Cole is the Channel Development Manager at Arista Networks, with a background in business development and military service.
Title
Nicholas Cole currently serves as the Channel Development Manager at Arista Networks. His role involves developing annual business plans with high-performing partners to define strategies and activities aimed at meeting revenue goals. He focuses on onboarding and activating new partners by ensuring their teams are enabled, equipped, and motivated to sell, market, deploy, and support Arista's portfolio offerings.
Work Experience at Arista Networks
Since 2022, Nicholas Cole has been working at Arista Networks in the Greater Chicago Area as a Channel Development Manager. His responsibilities include conducting monthly partner alignment sessions to review pipelines, perform win/loss analysis, and develop account penetration strategies. He also participates in field marketing activities such as staffing trade show booths and delivering sales presentations.
Work Experience at TD SYNNEX
Nicholas Cole has extensive experience at TD SYNNEX, where he held various roles over several years. From 2021 to 2022, he worked as Business Development III in Illinois. Prior to that, he was Business Development II from 2019 to 2021 in Downers Grove, Illinois. His first role at TD SYNNEX was as Business Development I from 2018 to 2019. He also served as a Partner Enablement Program Developer from 2017 to 2018 in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Military Service
Nicholas Cole served in the United States Marine Corps from 2005 to 2013 as an M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank Crewmember. His roles included driver, loader, and gunner. He was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Education and Expertise
Nicholas Cole earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration: Management Information Systems from Governors State University, where he studied from 2013 to 2016. Additionally, he holds an M1A1 Tank Crewman Diploma in Military Technologies and Applied Sciences from the United States Marine Corps Tank School at Fort Knox, which he obtained from 2005 to 2006.