CFO, VP - Business Development, Management Consultant, Sales Executive
Manufacturing, Distribution, Technology, Service Industries
MBA, CPA
Dave Chambless has extensive experience in business development; finance; operations; sales; marketing; and international channel development and management.
Ending in 2006, over a period longer than a decade, Mr. Chambless served in various roles, most recently as the Vice President of Business Development,
with the Open Applications Group Inc. (
Prior to joining Abraxas Business Services, Mr. Chambless was Director of Technology at C=WIN, Inc. At C=WIN, he led an engineering and technical-sales
group responsible for the design and development of data-networking solutions and the sale and deployment of these and internet-based applications
internationally. During his tenure there, he led an engineering team that achieved a first-in-the-world accomplishment when it implemented a wireless
network (IEEE 802.11b) providing Internet access to a moving railway car. This accomplishment was widely heralded in trade publications. Further, the
project was specifically mentioned in an address by the Minister of Railways of India to the national legislature of India, as an example of the initiatives
of the Minister's administration.
Prior to his position with C=WIN, Mr. Chambless was the North American Vice President of Sales for the Integration Services Group of PsionTeklogix,
an international wireless data communications solutions provider. Also, Mr. Chambless has been responsible for global software alliances for QAD, Inc.,
a leading vendor of ERP solutions. He had a similar position with The CODA Group, PLC, a financial-applications provider based in the United Kingdom.
These experiences gave Mr. Chambless a deep understanding of transnational channels and the issues involved in international business and inbound (
Earlier in his career, Mr. Chambless served as chief financial officer for Aaron Rents, Inc., a publicly traded furniture and furnishings company,
and for Docutronics, Inc., a start-up technology company. At the beginning of his professional career, he spent seven years as a management consultant
for Touche Ross. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Chambless commanded components of a U.S. Army Pershing Missile unit in West Germany.
Mr. Chambless has a Master of Business Administration in Finance degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor
of Industrial and Systems Engineering degree from Georgia Tech. In 1982, he became a Certified Public Accountant.
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