Bert Brokaw

Senior Director, Sales Development at Rippling

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

About

I am passionate about consultative sales and the satisfaction that comes with aligning a company with an ideal solution for their needs. I have experience in outside sales, inside sales, managing my own sales team, and second-line sales leadership. My breadth of experience has helped me to understand a wide variety of verticals that stretch across the entire US economy. I've worked with every type of client, from a two-person recruiting firm to a publicly traded manufacturing company. I am dedicated to growing with my managers, reps, prospects, and clients.

Experience

  • Rippling (3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Director, Sales Development
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Leading Product SDR organization (Rippling Spend and Rippling IT).

    • Director, Sales Development
      Oct 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs

      First outbound SDR Director at Rippling. Built the operating playbooks that later supported the global outbound org as it grew to 250+ SDRs, enabling Rippling’s move upmarket.

  • Loop (2 yrs 2 mos)
    • Director, Business Development
      Jun 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Built Loop's outbound function from the ground up. -During my tenure, the BDR org. sourced 38% of Loop's all-time new bookings -2022 win rate for BDR sourced leads: 36% -2021 win rate for BDR sourced leads: 34%

    • Senior Manager, Business Development
      Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 · 10 mos

  • Manager, Sales Development at Justworks
    Apr 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Trained and managed a team of 12 Sales Development Associates who were responsible for setting qualified meetings for Justworks' Account Executives. My responsibilities included: •Weekly 1-on-1s and call strategy sessions with each rep •Forecasting team/individual projections •Sourcing and interviewing prospective SDRs for our rapidly growing team

  • Account Executive at LinkedIn
    May 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs

    I worked as a trusted advisor to recruiting and consulting firms across the nation; enabling them to leverage the most powerful tools that LinkedIn Talent Solutions (SaaS) has to offer their industry.

  • IBISWorld ()
    • Sales Manager
      Jul 2016 - May 2017 · 11 mos

      I oversaw a team of full-cycle account executives who were responsible for helping companies and individuals acquire credible, comprehensive, consistent, and cost-effective industry research to help save time and generate revenue. Throughout my tenure, I managed a team of new hires and, later on, a team of senior sales professionals. In addition to my core responsibilities, I contributed to the development and advancement of IBISWorld's training/on-boarding program.

    • Account Executive
      Apr 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

      IBISWorld is the largest provider of industry-level information in the world; covering every industry in the United States. My role as a national sales executive was to prospect and close new business within the financial services, manufacturing, and education sectors. Notable achievements: •Highest revenue-generating sales executive in hiring class •Hit and exceeded annual quota three months before end of fiscal year (135% of annual number) •Consistently participated in training of new hiring classes; included helping to run training sessions on our sales cycle and accounting vertical, as well as running mock webinars with new hires