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David Ricker is BroadJump LLC’s Chairman and CEO. David’s career in the healthcare industry spans three decades, having served most recently as President and CEO of Broadlane, one of the nation’s largest group purchase organizations. Under his leadership, the company’s explosive growth produced a 480% increase in shareholder value growing EBITDA from a loss of $20 million to earnings of $45 million at the time of its sale to MedAssets for $850 million.

As an industry leader, David is widely recognized for conceiving innovative services that change the healthcare supply chain landscape. He was elected Chairman of the Federation of the American Hospital Exhibitor Committee, and is a frequently sought speaker at industry events. David has served on the Advisory Board of Rendina Companies since August of 2010.

Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Communications
Rowan College 

Dan heads up technology as President and CIO, and serves on BroadJump, LLC’s Board of Managers. He has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in the healthcare and technology industries. Most recently, Dan spent five years as the Vice President of National Accounts for Medline Industries. While at Medline, he grew his business line to over $500 million in annual sales and successfully negotiated, secured and managed more than 80 contracts with purchasing organizations such as MedAssets, Kaiser-Permanente, and Ascension Health. Prior to Medline, Dan was co-founder and Senior Vice President of Business Information Services at Broadlane. Under his direction, Broadlane created BroadLink, a dynamic Business to Business e-commerce exchange in healthcare, as well as number of ground breaking technologies that included automated financial and contract management functions.

Before Broadlane, Dan co-founded a technology company called InetSolutions, which was a pioneer in the field of Internet-based software development. InetSolutions built custom software solutions for healthcare companies that included Tenet Healthcare and Premier, a national group purchasing organization. Prior to starting InetSolutions, Dan led the Data Solution division for Premier.

Dan is married and has two children in high school. He enjoys fishing, playing basketball, traveling with his family and supporting his children at their sporting events.

Education:
Business Degree Economics
Brown University 

Greg has spent his 19-year career in various healthcare supply chain roles. Before joining BroadJump, LLC, he served as the Director of Operations for MedAssets, a healthcare supply chain company, Capital and Construction Program. He was charged with reducing the hospital’s overall new and remodel construction costs through negotiations and contracting, as well as integrating new technology platforms with clients to track and identify savings opportunities.

Previously, Greg spent time as the Corporate Accounts Manager for Skytron, a major manufacturer of Surgical and Medical Capital Equipment, responsible for total solution sales to large multi-hospital networks and healthcare group purchasing organizations. In earlier roles, he spent several years with Broadlane, a group purchasing organization, working in several supply chain functions; his last major role was helping with the design and implementation of Broadlane’s Procurement Solution suite of tools and services. He started his career at Allegiance Healthcare and was part of their integration with Cardinal Health in 1999.

Greg is an avid sports fan and enjoys attending Denver Broncos and Texas Rangers games. He is an accomplished runner and has competed in two marathons and a triathlon. In his free time, Greg enjoys traveling, going to outdoor concert venues, and running with his Border Collie, Denver Bronco.

Education:
Finance Studies
University of New Mexico 

Cheryl served in various healthcare client management and leadership roles for more than 20 years prior to joining BroadJump, LLC. Most recently, she was Regional Vice President of Client Management over Enterprise Accounts at MedAssets, a healthcare performance improvement company. Previously, she served as a regional Vice President of Client Management at Broadlane, a group purchasing organization. In earlier roles, she served as Director of Client Management for Broadlane and Director of Customer Support at Brim Healthcare Inc.

Cheryl previously served on the Acute Long Term Hospital Association (ALTHA), the Allied Council. She has presented on several occasions to Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) membership on pricing transparency in the healthcare supply chain, and she co-presented a case study on “Selecting Your Group Purchasing Organization.”

Cheryl has two children, a daughter who has graduated from college that also works in healthcare, and a son who is in high school. In her free time she enjoys genealogy, watching her son play sports, as well as attending every home University of Oregon football game.

Education:
Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs
Lewis and Clark College 

Greg Firestone possesses more than 25 years of experience in the Integrated Delivery Network (IDN), health system and Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) market segments. Currently, Greg serves in a strategic advisory role with BroadJump, as well as Vice President of Strategic Customer Relations with TELA Bio. Prior to this, he served as Vice President of Strategic Customer Relations at ROi, where he led a team of coworkers responsible for provider customer recruitment and support, focusing on supply chain services, operational infrastructure and financial health of providers’ supply chains. Greg also served as Regional Vice President of MedSpeed LLC, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dermal Life LLC, Co-founder and President of Mossberg Labs and Owner and Chief Executive Officer of NCI. He founded the IDN Summit & Reverse Expo, which connects IDN and GPO executives.

Greg authored “Swimming with the Supertankers”, a book written to assist supplier sales and marketing professionals.

Education:
Bachelor of Science
University of Toledo
University of Michigan

Greg has more than 10 years of healthcare experience. He has held sales, marketing and business development positions with several leading medical device and pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining BroadJump, he worked at Stryker, a $10 billion medical technology company. Greg started as a Sales Representative with Stryker before moving into Marketing and Product Management roles where he was responsible for product lifecycle management, product training, marketing programs and sales support. Other career positions include capital medical equipment and pharmaceutical sales roles.

Greg is married and he and his wife have one son. He enjoys traveling with his family, endurance sports, and playing music.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Marketing & Business Communications
Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University 

Brett has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, technology, data science, analytics and data syndication. Prior to BroadJump, Brett has held executive, sales and founder positions with a range of companies, from enterprises like Oracle and Accenture, to healthcare startups like Panoratio and AnalytiCare. He has been involved in 11 startups with 4 IPOs and 3 trade sales as a Sales Executive. His healthcare experience includes relationships with providers HCA and Humana, long term care providers SAVA Senior Care and Omnicare and Pharmaceutical icons J&J and Sanofi. Brett has been published in medical journals as a contributor to research and in articles on diabetes, anemia and blood thinners.

Brett is married, a gentlemen farmer and a sportsman. He enjoys physical work, mentoring young sales people and coaching youth football.

Education:
Bachelors of Science, Biology
Purdue University

Certified SAFe Agilist

Prior to joining BroadJump, LLC, Joe led supply chain operations for Franklin Community Health Network in Maine, driving enduring bottom-line improvement through process optimization. Joe leveraged the supply chain as a conduit to improve the quality and cost of patient outcomes through physician and clinician engagement, strategic value analysis and revenue management. Previously, he managed manufacturing supply chain operations with Scott Paper Company and Kimberly Clark Corporation.

Joe has four children and enjoys competitive swimming, biking, golf and fly-fishing in his free time.

Education:
Master of Business Administration
Thomas College 

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, cum laude
Ithaca College 

Professional Affiliations:
Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management (AHRMM)
Certified Materials and Resource Professional (CMRP)

Wanda has three decades of healthcare experience, functioning in various capacities from bedside nurse to owner of a nursing consulting business. Her background includes roles as a clinical implementation specialist and a healthcare services vendor. Prior to her current role as Vice President of Client Management and Value Analysis Specialist for BroadJump, Wanda was the Value Analysis Manager for Regional One Health in Memphis, Tennessee.

Currently, Wanda holds a PhD in Organizational Leadership, focusing on generational communication and interactions in the workplace, as well as evolving generational issues. She speaks at national and regional events on a variety of topics including value analysis, team building, communication and generational influences on business practice. 

Wanda is married with a wonderful blended family, including six children and five grands. She loves walking on the beach and is an avid reader and writer. She is passionate about mentoring the youngest generation, addressing food insecurity in her community and working with the children of addicts and teens aging out of the foster system. She has plans to create a safety net system for these children and would like to set up a foundation to sponsor college scholarships for this group of at-risk young people. 

Education:
PhD, Organizational Leadership 
Northcentral University

Lauren began her career in healthcare with BroadJump, experiencing several aspects of the business as an analyst, operations manager and now as the Director of Product Development. She coordinates with stakeholders across the company and client base to identify, prioritize and execute strategic initiatives to better serve healthcare providers. Lauren is based out of BroadJump’s Dallas office.

In her free time, Lauren enjoys reading, traveling with her husband and visiting her hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
Kent State University

Jason Krogulski is the Manager of Technology Operations at BroadJump. Having spent more than 7 years of his career with BroadJump, Jason knows how to truly drive value for the company’s clients through their suite of applications. Jason supports BroadJump’s mission of improving patient care through expense management by taking on a variety of responsibilities, including product development, QA testing and custom analytics. He has experience building custom reporting using SQL and Power BI and is also tasked with managing the company’s local and cloud-based databases.

In his time at BroadJump, Jason has been a key member of multiple client engagements that have resulted in millions in savings for clients.

Education:
Currently pursuing his MBA
University of Illinois

Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Finance concentration  
Queen’s University 

Lauren Horan Shahriar is incredibly passionate about the business of healthcare and with helping others. As BroadJump’s first employee, she has been instrumental in the development and population of BroadJump’s back-end technologies. In her current role, she is responsible for the development of BroadJump’s internal product log and categorization schema.

Lauren studied Human Development at Texas Tech University. After graduation, she became a Child Life Advocate, working with children in their early stage development. Lauren then moved to the business side of healthcare, working with MedAssets in their National Purchasing Center. Lauren worked directly with providers in the sourcing process and gained valuable insight into the healthcare strategic sourcing process.

Lauren recently relocated to California with her husband, but is a Texan at heart. She enjoys traveling, going out with friends and experiencing all the outdoor activities that Southern California has to offer.

Education:
Human Development
Texas Tech University

Gio has nearly 5 years of experience working as a software engineer. He has operated in many different areas of software, including web development, mobile development, cloud development, DevOps and more. Gio’s roles have ranged from an entry level developer to leading a team for new development. He has designed, architected and implemented many applications across various industries, including finance, healthcare and retail. His current role involves providing BroadJump with secure, efficient and speedy development to meet their healthcare needs.

Gio moved to the United States from the Republic of Georgia when he was 13 years old. Outside of coding, Gio is constantly searching for new hobbies. Recently, he started learning to play piano, is studying neuroscience and astrophysics, and is training in martial arts. He has competed in Jiujitsu across the United States, securing a few gold medals.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas

Phil is the Vice President of Technology at BroadJump and manages the day-to-day operations of the technology team. Phil began his career at Code Authority (now Improving), a regional provider of cloud software consulting services. His years of experience and success with a diverse set of clientele there culminated in a position of Partner and Senior Architect.

Having worked with BroadJump on a consulting basis since the earliest days of the company in 2012, Phil has greatly enjoyed putting modern technology to work to make BroadJump’s product visions come to life from the ground up. Formally joining the company in 2019, Phil puts his talent, insight, heart and creativity into developing not only amazing applications for the company’s clients, but also developing the skills and capabilities of the in-house technology team.

In his spare time, Phil enjoys gardening, exercise and volunteering with the Dallas Red Foundation’s marketing committee.

Education:
Software Engineering
University of Texas at Dallas

Jenna Siffringer is the Marketing & Communication Manager for BroadJump. She began her career with BroadJump in October of 2018 as the PR Specialist. You may know her better as the voice behind the company’s social media pages and marketing content. Before joining BroadJump, Jenna spent more than 3 years working in television news as an anchor, multimedia journalist, breaking news reporter and producer. Her news career took her from the Midwest, in a small Ohio town where she interviewed state representatives and a Vice Presidential candidate, to the Southwest, where she was chosen to attend and cover the Lubbock Veterans Honor Flight to Washington, DC.

Jenna grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, volunteering with the American Red Cross, visiting the dog park and cheering on the Crimson Tide.

Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Broadcast Journalism & Spanish
University of Alabama

Cloe is a self-directed and proven professional in the pharmaceutical industry. Now in her eighth year in the healthcare sector, Cloe has served in positions in both retail pharmacy and the hospital pharmacy department at Texas Health Resources. Alongside her managerial duties, she has identified, remediated and managed many pharmacy challenges, including backorders, recalls and inventory management.

Cloe’s time at BroadJump has been spent assisting in the development of the company’s pharmacy supply chain solutions in an effort to shape and provide transparency to the pharmaceutical industry. Cloe believes that gaining insight into and having leverage to manage cost and evaluate trends on medical-surgical and pharmaceutical supplies will help in achieving the greatest savings and transparency for healthcare expense management.

Cloe enjoys any chance to travel, especially to the mountains to go skiing. When spending time in the city, she enjoys cooking, gardening and spending time with her family.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Healthcare Studies
University of Texas at Dallas

Kaylee is a Senior Analyst at BroadJump, where she supports the development of BroadJump’s medical-surgical solutions. Previously, she worked as an analyst responsible for data management and a variety of analytics projects using tools such as SQL and Power BI.

Kaylee was born and raised in Dallas. She enjoys rock climbing and watching the NFL.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Human & Organizational Development
Vanderbilt University 

Haley is a Senior Analyst at BroadJump, where she focuses on special projects designed to improve operational efficiencies. Prior to this position, Haley assisted in uncovering cost savings opportunities for hospitals through data-driven projects. She also played a significant role in BroadJump’s Data Integrity and QA team, ensuring the accuracy of BroadJump’s catalog data, as well as being the primary point on the processing of quotes and proposals for the company’s hospital partners.

Haley is from Del Rio, Texas. Being from a border town, she enjoys Mexican food, spending time with family and staying active.

Education:
Bachelor of Business Administration, Energy Commerce
Texas Tech University  

Jeremy has nearly five years of experience working in the areas of healthcare technology and healthcare administration. He also has an extensive research background as a former hospital project coordinator. Jeremy’s current role involves leveraging BroadJump’s solutions and market intelligence to help create custom strategic initiatives for clients.

Jeremy is a native of Memphis, Tennessee by way of Walls, Mississippi. Outside of analyzing data, Jeremy enjoys researching the latest tech, reading and watching movies with his wife and his mini schnauzer, Wolfgang. In his spare time, he mentors young men and women from his hometown.

Education:
Dual Masters, Business Administration and Public Health
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Bachelor of Science, Psychology
Millsaps College