Strategic Business Development & Growth Advisory

Turning ambiguous growth mandates into measurable results.

DCT Affiliates is the advisory practice of David Trumpler — a business development executive who has spent two decades building companies from the ground up, then helps CEOs and founders do the same: go-to-market strategy, channel partnerships, and margin improvement, backed by a record of turning strategy into revenue.

Based in Palm Beach County, FL — engagements nationwide
Growth, by the numbers
10–200%
Client revenue growth, Square D Marketing
100%+
Increase in client outreach, AgileAI Labs
700%
Surge in web & LinkedIn traffic in 2 months
$7.5M
Revenue built at 1450 Inc. over 8 years
Approach

Strategy that gets implemented, not shelved.

Most growth advice stops at the deck. David's background spans building a company from founding to $7.5M, co-founding a consultancy that grew client revenues by up to 200%, and running CRM and content operations inside a fast-growing AI company — so the plans that come out of an engagement are built to be run by the team that has to run them.

Diverse business professionals shaking hands in an office, symbolizing agreement Every engagement starts with a straightforward conversation.
Track Record

Three companies, three growth stories.

A closer look at the roles behind the numbers.

1450 Inc.Channel Manager → General Manager
Joined at founding and helped build the speech-recognition software and hardware distribution company from the ground up, moving from channel management into general management as the business scaled.
$7.5MRevenue over 8 years
Square D MarketingCo-Founder, President · 2007–2019
Co-founded and ran a consultancy helping small businesses grow revenue while controlling costs through SEO, SEM, and multi-channel marketing — scaling the firm itself into a million-dollar-a-year business.
200%+Client revenue growth
AgileAI LabsCRM & Growth · 2024–2026
Migrated 200+ partner and client records into HubSpot, rebuilt reporting for executive visibility, and authored thought leadership that helped drive a 700% surge in web and LinkedIn traffic within two months of a product launch.
100%+Rise in client outreach
Services

Where DCT Affiliates plugs in.

Engagements are scoped to the mandate — from a focused audit to an ongoing advisory seat.

01

Go-to-Market & Channel Strategy

Building the partner and channel structure to take a product or territory from zero to scale.

02

CRM & Revenue Operations

Turning fragmented spreadsheets into a single system of record that leadership can actually see.

03

Marketing & Demand Generation

SEO, content, and multi-channel campaigns built around what's actually driving pipeline.

04

Margin & Operations Advisory

Reviewing spend and process to find where a business is leaving margin on the table.

Client Results

A few of the outcomes behind the resume.

Manufacturing & Retail

Built strategic partnerships with top U.S. furniture manufacturers for a client's specialty line, drawing serious interest from three of the top five high-end manufacturers in the country in under two months.

Insurance

Audited an existing multi-channel marketing plan for a local insurance agency and reallocated budget toward the highest-performing channels, significantly improving ROI.

SEO & Search

Built an SEO and content distribution strategy that put a B2C client on more than 500 first-page Google rankings for search terms drawing over 10,000 monthly searches.

Social & Local Search

Co-authored a social and SEM plan that grew a local business's Facebook following over 1,000% in two years and its page-one Google rankings more than 20-fold.

About David

Twenty years of building growth, then teaching it.

David Trumpler has spent his career on the ground floor of growth — as a channel manager who became a general manager, a co-founder who scaled his own consultancy, a mortgage banker who built new-market recognition from scratch, and most recently, the person rebuilding CRM and content operations inside a fast-moving AI company.

DCT Affiliates is where that experience becomes advisory work: helping CEOs, founders, and executive teams turn an open-ended growth mandate into a plan with numbers attached — and the operational detail to actually run it.

Outside client work, David serves on the board of Plan for a Better Environment, as Vice President of Ali's Alliance, and as Sponsorship Committee Chair for the Palm Beach County branch of the U.S. Green Building Council.

Education

  • MBA, E-CommerceFlorida Atlantic University
  • BS, CommunicationsUniversity of Connecticut

Licenses & Certifications

  • CDLP & Xinnix CertificationsMortgage lending
  • QuickBooks Certification, Level 1Intuit
  • Real Estate Sales Associate LicenseFlorida Real Estate Commission
Get in touch

Have a growth mandate that needs a plan?

Let's talk through where the business is today, where it needs to go, and what it will actually take to get there.