Rick Halbrooks

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About Rick Halbrooks

Rick Halbrooks is Vice President, Sales for McLeod Software. Rick joined McLeod in early 2004 and is responsible for all sales and business development for the company. Through his leadership, McLeod Software’s sales have consistently grown by more than 25% year over year since his arrival. Rick has over 38 years of experience in sales and senior sales management. He got his start in sales and sales management selling books door to door with the Southwestern Company during summers in college. He has also owned and franchised a chain of retail stores, owned and managed a Dinosaur museum and hosted an afternoon drive radio show for several years. Rick is a native of Birmingham and lives in the Birmingham area with his wife of 36 years. Deborah and Rick have 3 sons, 3 daughter-in-laws and, very recently, 6 grandchildren. He has received numerous honors in sales, management and marketing, including being named Branch Manager of the Year, worldwide, while at Danka, receiving the distinguished Sales and Marketing Award from Sales and Marketing Executives International, and being chosen as a recipient of the Forbes – McKay “Marketing Firm of the Year” Award from the American Marketing Association. Rick is a regular speaker at transportation industry, entrepreneral and sales related events Rick enjoys a wide range of interests including fishing, travel, natural history, photography, acoustic guitar and sports, especially golf, snow skiing, basketball, football and racquetball. He also claims to be a “Collecto-Maniac” and his amassed significant collections of fossils (at one point he was the only person in his neighborhood with a complete Stegosaurus skeleton in his basement), rocks and minerals, colored vinyl record albums, logo golf balls, stamps, coins and has assembled one of the world’s largest collections of soda cans (over different, dating from 1938). “If it can’t get away from me, I collect it,” he says.