Leadership
Stephen Wiehe
President and Chief Executive Officer
Since joining SciQuest as president and CEO in 2001, Steve has taken the company from an e-market exchange to the leading provider of on-demand eprocurement solutions for academic, healthcare and research-centric organizations. His vision for SciQuest’s future led him to take the company private in 2004 and focus on creating a business-driven culture that provides organizations with a proven solution to achieve significant cost savings and advance their mission.
Steve has led the company to a compelling financial position by growing revenues and deeply instilling fiscal responsibility, making SciQuest the only profitable eprocurement provider. He focuses on guiding the company to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction through innovative product development and a dedicated professional services team.
Steve’s early success as a technology entrepreneur continues to fuel his passion for leading companies to excellence. Prior to SciQuest, he served as senior director, strategic investments & mergers and acquisitions at SAS Institute in Raleigh, North Carolina. He joined SAS in June 2000, after SAS acquired DataFlux Corporation, where he served as president and CEO.
Before joining DataFlux, Steve was managing director/Europe and senior executive vice president for SunGard Treasury Systems, a division of SunGard Data Systems, Inc., and president and CEO of Multinational Computer Models, Inc., which was sold to SunGard Data Systems in 1998.
A well-seasoned executive with more than 20 years of experience, Steve started his career with the General Electric Company. He graduated from its renowned Financial Management Program with honors and became treasurer of GE Plastics. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky.
Rudy Howard
Chief Financial Officer
Rudy is responsible for the financial strategy and fiscal management of the company. He brings over 30 years of financial leadership experience. Rudy has provided the financial management for a number of global organizations, overseeing areas such as public and private company financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and financial planning and analysis.
Prior to joining SciQuest Rudy served as Senior Vice President and CFO at MDS Pharma Services, Inc., a multi-national pharmaceutical services organization, where he directed all aspects of financial planning and analysis, helped develop corporate and product strategies, and managed the transition of acquisitions and divestitures. He also held CFO roles at other leading organizations, including Peopleclick, an international human capital management software developer; Marketing Services Group, Inc., a marketing and internet technology company; and Pharmaceutical Product Development, a global pharmaceutical organization.
Howard also served as a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he oversaw the management of clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, high technology and financial services industries. Howard is a Certified Public Accountant and received his Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from North Carolina State University.
Jeff Martini
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Jeff is responsible for the direction of SciQuest’s global sales initiatives. He brings more than 20 years of sales leadership experience in technology markets, developing sales strategies and building exceptional sales teams.
Prior to joining SciQuest, Jeff served as vice president of worldwide sales for VirtualEdge Corporation, a world-leading provider of real-time recruiting software for the extended enterprise. In this position, he led the sales organization to 100% year-over-year growth. Previously, Jeff served as vice president of worldwide sales at Primavera Systems, a portfolio management vendor, where he was responsible for significantly growing enterprise software sales for the company.
Jeff also served in multiple roles at SCT Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise software applications, including corporate vice president of sales. While at SCT, he designed and implemented sales and sales management best practices across the global sales organization for all vertical markets. Jeff is a graduate of Gettysburg College.
Gamble Heffernan
Senior Vice President of Strategy and Marketing
Gamble is responsible for overseeing SciQuest’s marketing operations to ensure the continuation of the company’s rapid growth and expansion into new markets, where a strategic approach to procurement promises to generate significant efficiencies and savings. She brings more than 20 years of product management and marketing experience to the company.
Gamble joined SciQuest from Misys, an application software and services provider to the financial services and healthcare industries, where she served as senior vice president of Community Solutions, focusing on community hospitals and their integration of ambulatory physicians through electronic medical records (EMR). Gamble had previously been senior vice president, Product Management for Healthcare. Prior to Misys, she was vice president and general manager of professional services and consulting for Cardinal Health and the director of the ALARIS® Center for Medication Safety and Clinical Improvement.
Prior to Cardinal Health/ALARIS, Gamble served as vice president of services marketing at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson company, where she was responsible for leading a new business focused on the development and launch of software and service products. Previously, she worked for GE Medical Systems where she held various management positions including General Manager for eBusiness, General Manager for Clinical Information Systems and Senior Business Unit Manager for Neonatal.
Daryl Broddle
Vice President of Technology
Daryl leads all the development and infrastructure resources behind SciQuest’s suite of collaborative procurement SaaS solutions. In his twelve-years at SciQuest, Daryl has helped transform the original SciQuest software into the reliable and robust SaaS platform that it is today. Daryl and his team are also responsible for implementing agile processes into the software development cycle to increase efficiencies, improve software quality and put customers at the center of product enhancements. Daryl’s focus on customer satisfaction and input is behind the unique inclusion of “customer-voted” feature enhancements into new SciQuest product releases.
As leader of software development at SciQuest, Daryl will continue to grow and manage development teams and acquisition integration for SciQuest. Daryl played a key role in integrating AECsoft’s technology into the SciQuest product portfolio, helping customers experience a seamless transition and realize nearly immediate benefit of the AECsoft acquisition.
Prior to joining SciQuest, Daryl served as Director of Store Systems at NationsRent. He also previously held positions in application development at Blockbuster and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Daryl holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from The University of Kansas.
Ann Thomas
Vice President of Human Resources
Ann is responsible for the strategic direction and management of SciQuest’s human resource policies and programs. In this role, she upholds the company’s continued commitment to recruiting the most qualified and capable workforce, and to realizing the highest levels of employee satisfaction. Ann brings more than 20 years of experience in every facet of the field to the company.
Prior to joining SciQuest, Ann was a director at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the national, professional organization for all CPAs. In this position, she led the acquisition of talent that resulted in hiring more than 400 employees for the relocated organization.
Previously, Ann served as vice president/HR business partner for the Social and Statistical Sciences group at RTI International, which offers innovative research and development as well as a full spectrum of multi-disciplinary services worldwide. She also served as an assistant vice president for St. Joseph Health System in California.
Ann holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands.
Grant Collingsworth
General Counsel
Grant is responsible for overseeing all legal and compliance matters for the company, including securities law compliance and transaction matters. He brings over 20 years of legal experience in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, securities, corporate finance and legal project management. He has extensive experience with companies executing growth strategies through acquisitions, as well as companies in numerous initial and secondary public offerings and other corporate finance transactions.
Prior to joining SciQuest, Grant spent over 14 years as a partner at Morris, Manning & Martin, a large full-service law firm, where he represented public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, securities offerings and securities compliance. He has experience working with both early-stage and later-stage growth companies in financing transactions, including some of the largest venture capital transactions in the Southeast.
Collingsworth received a B.A. in Finance from the University of Oklahoma and a J.D. from Emory University’s School of Law.
