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Paul L. H. Olson
Paul Olson is CEO and President of nuBridges. Prior to
assuming this role in September 2008, he served on the
Company’s Board of Directors since early 2007. Mr. Olson is
a business leader with extensive experience in
multiple industries from high technology and investment
management, to professional athletics and education. Olson
was a founding executive officer of Sterling Commerce, Inc.,
a major pacesetter in global e-commerce. In just over five
years, as Group President, his leadership contributed to
explosive growth resulting in 40,000 customers in 35
countries and revenue topping $600 million. In early 2000,
SBC Communications, Inc. (AT&T, Inc) acquired the business
for nearly $4 billion. After the acquisition, Olson
joined the leadership team at Bethel University in St. Paul,
Minnesota, where he served as executive vice president.
Olson also served the Minnesota Vikings as a front office
executive and was an early innovator in the use of
information technology for game analysis and strategy. He is
a board member and advisor for several companies, including nuBridges and Entegris, as well as non-profit organizations.
He holds a doctorate in Higher Education Management from the
University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the University of
St. Thomas, and a BA in Mathematics from Macalester College.
Jim Morgan
Jim
Morgan serves as CFO for nuBridges overseeing all
aspects of Finance and Administration. Prior to nuBridges,
he was the Senior Director of Finance and Administration at
CMI Marketing, a loyalty marketing company that develops and
administers cross category loyalty programs, the first being
ClubMom Rewards. At CMI, Jim helped develop the financial
systems and infrastructure to track and process member
transactions with partner companies. Before CMI, Jim worked
at Goldman, Sachs and Co. in the Fixed Income Division. As a
part of the corporate institutional sales group, his clients
included several large mutual funds and insurance companies.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, he worked for The Walt Disney
Co. in the Corporate Operations Planning department. In that
position, Jim worked with the company's various business
units on financial matters including the preparation of
monthly forecasts, annual operating plans, and capital
spending proposals. Jim holds an MBA in Finance from The
Anderson School at UCLA and a Bachelor of Science in
Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Jim Magers
Jim
Magers is Executive Vice President of Product Development,
with responsibility for Development, Architecture and
Quality Assurance at nuBridges. A 20-year veteran of the
electronic payments and transaction processing marketplace,
Jim came to nuBridges from CheckFree Corporation (now
Fiserv), the largest provider of electronic bill pay
services in the U.S. While at CheckFree, where Jim held
senior management positions from 1996 to 2008, he managed
the development of MyCheckFree.com, a hosted biller-direct
Web site that provides e-billing services for more than 300
billers and 18 million+ bill-pay subscribers. Prior to
CheckFree, Jim served as Vice President of Operations and
prior to that as Vice President of Custom Programming for
the National Accounts Division of ADP. Jim holds a Bachelor
of Business Administration in Information Systems from
Georgia State University.
Brad Childress
Brad
Childress is Executive Vice President of Sales for nuBridges.
Prior to joining nuBridges, Brad was President of The
Complex Sale, Inc., a leading sales consulting and training
firm where he was responsible for all company operations
globally. In that role he worked with dozens of software
companies such as Oracle, SAP and Manhattan Associates to
achieve sales excellence by optimizing their sales
processes.
Brad spent 13 years at MSA and Dun & Bradstreet Software,
holding key executive roles in field sales and product
marketing. Prior to MSA, he spent seven years at Automatic
Data Processing (ADP). He is a graduate of Georgia Tech with
a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Management.
Kim Addington
Kim
Addington is Chief Marketing Officer of nuBridges. She is
responsible for all nuBridges product management and
marketing functions, including strategy and positioning,
public relations, analyst relations, demand generation and
corporate communications. With more than 20 years of
executive-level experience building and leading marketing
and business operations teams for international B2B software
companies, her knowledge of the enterprise software market
extends across business application integration, IT
infrastructure software, legacy modernization and
application development tools.
Before joining nuBridges, Addington served for 11 years as
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at
integration middleware vendor Seagull Software. Prior to
Seagull, she spent 10 years at development tool vendor
KnowledgeWare as Senior Vice President of Marketing, and
five years as a Marketing Manager at ADP Network Services.
Addington is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Gettysburg
College with a BA in English, and completed additional
coursework in the MBA program at the University of Michigan
with a major in Marketing.
Kee Murray
Kee
Murray is Executive Vice President of Operations,
responsible for nuBridges Exchange Network and other managed
services operations, Customer Service across all product
lines and internal IT. Kee has more than 25 years of IT
experience and has held executive positions at CheckFree and
InterContinental Hotels Group. Kee’s 11-year career at
CheckFree included Vice President of Application Support and
Vice President of Infrastructure Technology Engineering.
While at CheckFree Kee assisted in the company’s launch and
establishment of a 6Sigma program, increasing the
organization’s overall sustainable quality measurement from
3.8 to 4.45 Sigma; built high-performing leadership teams;
and played key roles in vendor management, infrastructure
optimization and scalability, and design and implementation
of a standard distributed systems platform.
While Vice President of Enterprise System Engineering at
InterContinental Hotels Group, Kee provided leadership and
financial direction to upgrade the global hotel
organization’s reservation and supporting systems to process
more than 2,000 customer transactions per second. Strategic
quality enhancements increased systems availability,
supporting enhanced customer SLAs. Kee graduated from
Roosevelt University in Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Data Processing.
Gary Palgon
In
his role as Vice President of Product Management at
nuBridges, Gary oversees product direction and development,
as well as complementary implementation and eBusiness
services. A seasoned enterprise software professional with
broad experience in customer support, product marketing and
product development, Gary brings more than 15 years of
management experience to his role at nuBridges. Prior to
joining nuBridges, Gary served as Director of Product
Management for ZapMedia, a technology company bringing
customized entertainment to consumers, and Director of
Product Marketing for Idapta, a builder of e-marketplaces.
He spent over 10 years at Geac Computer Systems, Inc.
(formerly Dun and Bradstreet Software and MSA) where he
managed the development and marketing of leading edge
technologies used by large and medium enterprises including
customer, employee and supplier self-service applications
for Fortune 1000 customers. He holds a Bachelor of Science
degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the
University of Florida.
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