David S. Turner
CEO and Founder
David S. Turner is Chairman and co-founder of GroupLink. He also
brings twenty years experience in industrial software design, development,
sales and marketing.
While directing GroupLink to its current position (Mr. Turner joined
GroupLink fulltime in 2000), he has focused the company on the customer
relationship management (CRM) market. He has also directed other
areas of the business growth toward CRM related components, including
eReporting, e-business workflow, and integration with third-party
partners. Mr. Turner has introduced and managed account relationships
with key GroupLink customers, including Lincoln National Corporation,
Merita International Bank, New York City, Shell Oil, and Walt Disney
World. Prior to joining GroupLink full-time, Mr. Turner started
product marketing and sales for successful industrial software products
at AutoSimulations, Inc. and Eyring Corporation. That experience
included large scale industrial design / integration projects with
such customers as General Motors, Michelin Tire, Northrop Grumman,
Proctor and Gamble and others. He has also served on the faculty
of Brigham Young University as an instructor of Marketing and Finance.
Mr. Turner has a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from
the University of Utah and an MBA from Brigham Young University.
Dean L. Jolley
Co-Founder
Dean Jolley has over 30 years of experience in the high technology
industry. In 1985, Mr. Jolley founded Auto-Soft Corporation, at
the time the only independent supplier of distribution and automation
software in the world. At one time, all computer and memory chips
throughout the world were made under the material tracking control
of an Auto-Soft product. Software products for distribution were
also developed, and Warehouse RX became the standard corporate worldwide
real-time distribution software for Intel, Motorola Communications,
Duty Free Shops, etc. In 1989, Mr. Jolley formed Eskay Corporation,
the North American sales arm for an automation equipment supplier
from Japan, Daifuku Ltd., which grew to $65M in sales by 2000. Mr.
Jolley subsequently sold his interest in this company and, in 1997,
also sold Auto-Soft Corporation. Currently, Mr. Jolley is involved
in the startup or growth of several companies where his involvement
ranges from majority ownership, minority ownership, sitting board
member, and/or technical or business management roles.
Brad L. Porter
Board Advisory Consultant
Brad L. Porter has over 25 years
experience directing global and domestic projects and teams in both the
engineering and high-tech fields. Mr. Porter worked in the Fortune 500
community, directing multi-million dollar projects involving the selection and
deployment of state of the art, best-practices based technical infrastructure.
Mr. Porter also directed multi-million dollar projects involving the development
of web services and web portal technologies for Citrix Systems Inc. and assisted
in the migration of software assets from the Sequoia and Erogo Inc. acquisitions
by Citrix. Mr. Porter also directed development of supply chain and
merchandising software systems for Armature Inc., a British company, later
acquired by Lawson Inc. He also directed development for a small startup
company called Discounts Direct, later known as Overstock.com
Mr. Porter earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Weber State University and
an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Porter serves on the board of the Project Management Institute, Northern Utah
Chapter. Mr. Porter is PMP certified by PMI and is a staunch supporter of
best-practices based project management.
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