DAVID ROBERTS, an Alpine Link Corporation Partner, is President of Clear Fork Group, a consulting firm specializing in sales strategy, sales processes, sales operations, and channel operations. He drives organizations to higher levels of performance. He combines skills at the strategic, operational, and technical levels to identify business needs and deliver improved processes that have a tangible impact on operations in established and start-up environments.
Over David’s career, he has gained senior management experience with top-caliber companies including Microsoft, Websense and McAfee. He provides vision and facilitates organizational change, process redesign, and best practices to increase revenues and improve bottom-line margins across diverse business landscapes, including fast growth and turnaround situations. David has been an executive-level participant in multiple acquisition and investment transactions.
David has extensive experience managing worldwide teams in an ever-changing environment with a high level of success. His background includes complex software/solution sales experience both through direct and indirect channels; to both SMB and large size enterprises. David effectively recruits, hires, trains, manages, retains and motivates high performance teams to meet business and financial objectives; establishes goals and monitors performance to ensure continued success.
Professional affiliations include the Advisory Board to the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington and board member of the K-Life Chapter based in Fort Worth, Texas. He holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Texas, Arlington and completed coursework in the Mid-level Management program at Southern Methodist University. When not working, David and his wife Carolyn spend time raising three sons. David also enjoys fitness training, snow skiing, golf, and traveling.