Executive Team

The seasoned executives of Nursefinders bring a wealth of experience on general management, healthcare and staffing issues to the company and its customers and caregivers.

• Robert E. Livonius, Chief Executive Officer
• Denise Deans-Graf, Chief Operating Officer, Staffing
• Patrick McColpin, Chief Financial Officer

Robert Livonius, Chief Executive Officer

Robert Livonius is the chief executive officer for Nursefinders, Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of health care personnel and home care services. He joined Nursefinders in July 2003 with more than a decade of staffing industry experience and more than 20 years of executive management and sales experience.

Livonius worked at the executive level for 12 years with Spherion Corp. (formerly Interim Services), a publicly-held staffing, health care, technology and outsourcing services company. He most recently served as chief operating officer of Spherion, where he was responsible for $3.5 billion in revenues and 1,200 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia . He also held the position of executive vice president of health care operations, where the health care division grew to over $700 million in revenues in health care staffing and home care services under his management.

From 1986 to 1991, Livonius worked for Nynex Corp., now Verizon, as vice president of sales and operations. He achieved 40 percent growth and $500 million in revenues during his tenure.

After graduating with two bachelor’s degrees in marketing and in engineering from the University of Colorado, Livonius began his career with IBM Corp. He worked his way up from marketing representative to regional vice president of IBM over a span of 15 years.

Denise Deans-Graf, Chief Operating Officer, Staffing

Denise Deans-Graf is the chief operating officer of staffing for Nursefinders, Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of health care personnel services. She joined Nursefinders in September of 2004 and has 22 years of experience in the staffing industry, including healthcare as a specialty.

Deans-Graf worked at the executive level for 11 years with Spherion Corp. (formerly Interim Services), a publicly-held staffing, health care, technology and outsourcing services company. She was most recently the senior vice president of operations for Spherion’s Northern Division, which achieved profit increases in excess of 50 percent under her management. During her tenure, revenues climbed from $130 million in 1997 to $270 million in 2003.

From 1993 to 1997 Deans-Graf was the top operational vice-president at Interim Healthcare. She was also instrumental in the integration of several acquisitions including those involved in the Interim/Norrell acquisition.

Deans-Graf received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI in 1981. After graduation, she began her career in staffing with Addecco, a full-service staffing firm, as a Milwaukee client service supervisor. She later served as a vice president with the company from 1990 to 1993.

Patrick McColpin, Chief Financial Officer

Patrick McColpin is the chief financial officer for Nursefinders, Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of health care personnel services. He joined Nursefinders in January of 2005.

McColpin has extensive experience as a CFO. After graduating from the University of Texas, he had a 13-year career with Touche Ross, where Nursefinders was one of his audit clients. In 1994 he became CFO of a $150 million international engineering firm, Greiner Engineering, Inc. His financial, acquisition and integration experience was further developed as CFO of Mattress Giant Corporation with over 200 locations.

Most recently, he was the CFO of National Product Services. The foundation of this service business relied upon the hiring and retention of 15,000 employees across the country to deliver quality service. His accomplishments include the successful merger of seven companies, one that more than doubled the size of his company.