Broadlane: Executives

David Ricker, President and Chief Executive Officer
David Ricker serves as Broadlane's president and chief executive officer. He is Broadlane's founder and, prior to his current role, was Broadlane’s president and chief operating officer. He has over 27 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Ricker previously served as senior vice president of material resource management at Tenet Healthcare and chief executive of BuyPower, Tenet's previous group purchasing organization. Prior to his career at Tenet, Ricker served as North American division vice president at IVAC, a manufacturer of drug delivery and vital signs technology systems. Prior to IVAC, he spent nine years as vice president of materials management services at Premier Health Alliance. Ricker earned his bachelor's degree in communications from Rowan College in New Jersey.

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Laurie Jackson, Chief Financial Officer
Laurie Jackson has served as chief financial officer of Broadlane since 2003, overseeing Broadlane's finance and administrative functions, including corporate financial planning, treasury functions, collections, general accounting, financial reporting, human resources and facilities. Prior to serving as CFO, Jackson was Broadlane's controller since joining the company in 2000. Prior to joining Broadlane, Jackson served as assistant controller for DaVita, a national dialysis provider, where she was responsible for revenue management, Medicare reporting, general accounting, and financial operations support. Before joining DaVita, Jackson spent 11 years with Tenet in Tacoma and Dallas, most recently as director of financial reporting. Jackson is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Western Washington University and a Master of Business Administration from City University in Bellevue, Washington.

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Jeff Nelson, Chief Information Officer
Jeff Nelson is chief information officer at Broadlane and has been with the company since December 2003. Prior to joining Broadlane, he worked as an independent consultant for two years developing business, marketing and information technology plans for startup and mid-sized organizations. Nelson has previously served as vice president of product development at WebMD, where he developed a variety of healthcare-based applications and portal technologies to integrate company and third-party services. Prior to his career at WebMD, Nelson served as executive vice president and co-founder of Metis L.L.C., where he was responsible for creating and developing health care applications for hospitals and physician practices. He held several consulting positions with First Consulting Group for eight years and held positions in a receivables management startup for several years prior. Nelson has over 23 years of health care technology experience and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business and a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in finance, both from the University of San Francisco.

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Tim Biggio, General Counsel
Tim Biggio has served as general counsel of Broadlane since August 2006. Prior to working for Broadlane, Biggio was a corporate and securities attorney for law firms in Houston and Dallas. In 2000, he left Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, where he was a partner to serve as the general counsel of a start-up technology company called SandStream Communications. Biggio then worked for VarTec Telecom, where he served as deputy chief counsel, managing all of the company's contracts and corporate transactions and counseling on a wide range of legal issues. He has over 17 years of experience representing companies in a wide range of industries on a variety of transactional legal matters. Biggio holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in finance from Texas Christian University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law.

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Michael Berryhill, Executive Vice President, Supply Chain Services
Michael Berryhill is responsible for leading Broadlane's national contracting services as well as regional, custom and diversity contracting. These groups include the following disciplines: medical, radiology, surgical, cardiology, laboratory, non-medical, IT, equipment and pre-commitment. In addition, he is responsible for the Pharmacy and Capital Equipment service lines. Berryhill has more than 19 years of experience in healthcare, including work in the clinical diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries. Prior to joining Broadlane, he worked in the clinical diagnostic laboratory business for Bio-Rad Laboratories. Berryhill was responsible for capital equipment sales for the western United States. He focused primarily on instrumentation for toxicology and hemoglobin analysis. Berryhill spent eight years at ICN Pharmaceuticals as a chemist where he worked on purification of radio-labeled nucleotides and proteins used in clinical research. He also managed their Radiochemical Technical Service Division worldwide. Berryhill holds a Bachelor of Science degree in education from State University of New York.

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Joe Greskoviak, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Joe Greskoviak is executive vice president of sales and marketing at Broadlane. He is responsible for Broadlane's overall sales effort focusing on IDNs, acute care hospitals and non-acute care providers. Greskoviak also has responsibility for Broadlane's marketing and corporate communications functions. He joined Broadlane in 2000 and has held several executive positions prior to his current appointment. Before joining Broadlane, Greskoviak served as vice president of business development and e-commerce at Premier Purchasing Partners, a division of Premier. There, he was closely involved in the formation of Premier's e-commerce company, Premier Health Exchange. Greskoviak also developed Premier's non-acute care business, Provider Select. Previously, he held positions as the administrative director of urgent care at the West Suburban Hospital Medical Center in Chicago and as project director at Shared Medical Systems. Greskoviak has over 20 years of health care experience and holds a bachelor's degree in political science from DePaul University in Chicago.

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Tom Sherry, Chief Operating Officer
Tom Sherry was appointed chief operating officer in September 2008. Previously, he was executive vice president, client care and led the Client Care Department at Broadlane. Prior to his career at Broadlane, Tom served as senior vice president of sales and services at Promedix, a business-to-business specialty medical products marketplace. Sherry also served as the senior vice president of distribution at Owens & Minor. Prior to his tenure at O&M, he served as executive vice president of sales at Stuart Medical. Sherry holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Central Michigan University.

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