Graham Barnes / Chief Executive Officer
Graham Barnes has over 25 years of experience in wireless telecommunications, management, strategic planning, business development, sales, marketing, systems engineering both domestically and internationally.  Prior to BidShift Graham was Senior Vice President at Covad Communications and the General Manager of the NextWeb Wireless division. Prior to the merger between NextWeb and Covad he was the CEO of NextWeb, Inc., California and Nevada's largest fixed-wireless provider for business, delivering broadband Internet and VOIP services. NextWeb was named to the prestigious Inc 500 list at position #104, being the #8 company in telecommunications on the Inc 500 list. Additionally, for the second year in a row, NextWeb placed in the Top 5 of the 50 fastest growing Bay Area companies by the East Bay Business Times. Graham entered the USA in 1980 with Harris Corporation (a $2 billion international communications firm, now partly split off to form Harris Stratex). Previously, as Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Service with Western Multiplex Corporation (subsequently Proxim, now owned by Terabeam) Graham lead the introduction of market-leading Lynx and Tsunami spread spectrum radios.

In 2005, Graham was named finalist for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Ernst & Young's San Jose office. Graham has a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London, and an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Santa Clara University. He is also a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the Santa Clara University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In November 2006, Graham was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Sunol Glen School District.
 

Michael Saddik / Executive Vice President
Michael Saddik is an accomplished strategic executive and brings over 10 years of extensive domestic and international experience in client services, business operations and technical issue resolution. Michael has played a key role in establishing various corporate initiatives including technical, customer service, and sales departments in the technology and wireless industry.

Michael is a founding team member of a successful start-up, which has grown to dominate its market segment, achieve national recognition as an Inc 500 company (#104 in 2005) and succeed in a successful M&A exit.

As an Executive team member of Next-Web Michael led and coordinated client operations teams, participated in due diligence engagements related to acquisitions of five companies by private equity investor groups and strategic corporate buyers. Michael and his team insured NextWeb's passion for service is delivered effectively to meet and exceed our customers' needs.

Michael was instrumental on the executive team building and growing NextWeb from a firm with $100K in annual sales to over $13Million in sales within a 6 year period. Michael led the sales teams to record breaking revenues by enforcing aggressive selling strategies, training and mentoring.

Michael was instrumental in complete turnaround of an under-performing sales team; set higher expectations and instituted individual team-member accountability resulting in 300% revenue increase over two years. He directed the organic growth engine of the company with all elements of net new monthly reoccurring revenue (MRR) generation, including sales.

Prior to this experience Michael was responsible for the development on an international PC manufacturing company marketing services/products overseas. He created manufacturing processes, factories, assembly line, shipping and receiving processes; as well as corporate identity and branding.

Michael serves as a Board Member for The Lupus Foundation of Northern California, a non-profit organization since 2005. Currently he is completing his MBA at Pepperdine University with an emphasis on executive leadership.

Cindy Watson / Vice President of Client Services
Cindy Watson is responsible for overall customer direction and retention, with a focus on account management and furthering BidShift's growth in specific healthcare markets. She will also contribute to the company's business development activity, execute strategic product development and focus on increasing the company's visibility.

A senior healthcare executive with more than 15 years of experience, Watson brings a unique blend of operations, marketing and sales knowledge to BidShift. Her background also includes start-up operations and strategic business development within privately-owned and publicly-traded healthcare organizations.

Watson joins BidShift from her previous post as vice president of strategic operations at AllianceCare, where she developed the company's industry-leading proactive health and wellness model that is currently provided to more than 30 retirement communities in three states. She also previously served as vice president of InteliStaf Healthcare where she managed the clinical, marketing, sales and business development functions for locations across the United States.

Watson holds a bachelor's degree in communications disorders from College of Saint Rose, and a Master of Science degree in communications disorders from Syracuse University.

Kathy Douglas, RN / Chief Nursing Officer
As chief nursing officer, Kathy Douglas is responsible for healthcare strategy, building market penetration and assuring that the current issues facing heathcare are considered as BidShift’s products and services evolve. Kathy oversees BidShift’s nurse advisory boards and customer user groups.

Douglas brings over 20 years of leadership in healthcare and technology. During that time she served as executive vice president of the commercial division for Oceania, one of the first computer based patient record companies, was Vice president of client services for Project Arena and CEO of Montclare Technologies. In the acute care setting she has held the positions of IT Project Manager, Technology Trainer, Education Coordinator and instructor for Intensive Care Nursing, ICU Manager and Nursing Administration Special Project Manager. In addition Kathy has taught ICU Nursing as a volunteer in India.

Wes Staggs / Vice President of Sales and Strategic Alliances
Wes Staggs brings more than 15 years experience in healthcare business and technology to the BidShift management team. His role as vice president of sales and strategic alliances calls for the development of new partnerships, managing existing alliances and day-to-day management of the sales team.

Prior to joining BidShift, Staggs was director of global channel management for Agilisys where he provided enterprise resource planning and supply chain solutions to select distribution and manufacturing industries. He held senior level positions at Quovadx where he was director of business development, at HiddenMind Technology as vice president of sales and business development, and at WebMD where he served as vice president of strategic alliances.

Derek Quackenbush / Vice President of Finance and Administration
Derek Quackenbush brings over 15 years of general business experience in the technology, software development, and software and entertainment publishing industries.  Derek is responsible for BidShift’s accounting, finance, HR, and administrative functions.

Prior to joining BidShift, Quackenbush had held several senior-level positions with companies such as New Times Media where he was General Manager of the San Francisco Weekly, Infogrames North America where he was VP of Finance, Sony Computer Entertainment America where he was Director of Finance for 989 Studios, a software publishing division, and Sony Online Entertainment, which he had helped to launch via a joint venture with another Sony operating division.  Derek started his career in public accounting with Ernst & Young.

Ken Coons / Senior Director of Marketing
Ken Coons brings over 15 years of Marketing and Product Management experience in both small, venture backed and large, publicly traded companies. He is responsible for BidShift's strategic and tactical Marketing efforts: corporate branding, PR, lead generation and sales support.

Prior to joining BidShift, Ken was Director of Product Development at Skylight Healthcare Systems where he was responsible for matching industry direction with the company's 3-5 year strategic product plan. He also held a number of senior-level positions with other companies: MedVantx as the Director of Marketing (and employee #4), and Pyxis (a Cardinal Health Company) as the Senior Product Manager of the $500M MedStation product line.

Ken received his undergraduate degree from University of California, Santa Barbara in Business Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Diego.