In 1983, armed with a degree in computer science and finance, Haines returned to his father’s business in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Trexler Haines Gas, Inc. was a large, regional propane gas company with 40,000 customers. There, he brought the company into the computer age, handling analysis, business process re-engineering, architecture, communication, infrastructure, software, hardware, programming, change management, testing, implementation, training and support. He redesigned old systems and implemented new ones in three locations, improving the company’s competitive edge and bottom line.

The most challenging IT work at Trexler Haines was done by 1991 and Haines moved on to Star Gas in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, assuming the post of Director of Information Services/Manager Capital Assets. There he oversaw similar IT initiatives and had management responsibility for takeovers/acquisitions, audit, capital expenditures, and a fleet of 350 vehicles. Then, to gain experience in the supply side of the IT business, he signed on with Leading Edge Systems as Director of U.S. Operations and Sales, selling IT services to the pharmaceutical, financial services, and gas/chemical sectors.

In 1996, Haines joined Pyramid Consulting Services, the IT staffing company his wife, Denise Haines, had launched in 1994. There he set about implementing technology to streamline the sales and recruiting functions. His IT expertise and Haines’s sales ability were a winning combination and, when the company experienced 100% growth during 1996, the entrepreneurial pair realized their company had the potential to become leaders in the field and took immediate steps to take the company to the next level. They secured a new space that could accommodate the staff needed to support the expansion and to keep their growing company competitive. In 1997, to open new channels to feed the market’s growing demands for international talent, they formed DirectSource, an overseas sourcing company, which has offices in Australia, India, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Africa. Then, as their markets shifted in favor of full-service IT providers, the couple expanded Pyramid’s service offering to include an IT solutions practice, ThinkCentric. By 2000 the combined companies had annual revenues in excess of $37 million dollars.

In 2001 Haines recognized the significant current and upcoming healthcare worker shortage in the United States. Leveraging the existing relationships, infrastructure and workforce built from the international sourcing division of Direct Source IT, Haines re-focused Direct Source to place an emphasis on the international sourcing of healthcare workers to the United States.

Haines’ efforts received state and national recognition in 2001 when Deloitte and Touche named Pyramid Consulting to the New Jersey Technology Fast 50 list and Purple Squirrel magazine named both Pyramid and DirectSource to the Purple Squirrel 100. These awards placed both companies amidst the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

Today, John Haines presides over DirectSource and ThinkCentric as a very involved CEO. He is an active participant in the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB) and a founding member of the Open Door Education Foundation, which provides college scholarships that enable talented, needy young people to attain the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the IT industry. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science and finance from the Weiss School of Business at Susquehanna University.

She began her career as Director of Human Resources for DHL Worldwide Courier Express and DHL Airways in San Francisco. After 6 years at DHL, Pat held senior Human Resources positions at Data General Corporation and Robotic Vision Systems in New York. In 1987, she became Vice President of Administration and Customer Service for The Pan Am Shuttle. After her Pan Am experience, she was Vice President for Human Resources for Herman’s World of Sporting Goods. Immediately before joining Direct Source Consulting in 1999, Pat was Vice President of Human Resources at Liz Claiborne, Inc. for 4 years. Pat’s over 20 years of experience in senior HR roles ideally equips her to lead DirectSource HealthCare’s efforts to recruit international nurses and healthcare workers for placement at U.S. healthcare facilities. Pat has a degree from the University of San Francisco in Human Relations and Organizational Behavior.

In the years before she joined Direct Source Healthcare, Halasnik made her mark selling IT services for a number of New Jersey companies. She joined MCC Corporation in Cranford, NJ (originally CMF) in 1983 where she marketed data entry and data processing services. It wasn’t long before she was acknowledged as the firm’s highest ranked account manager. Next, she joined AGS Information Services in Clark, NJ, where she shifted gears and moved from selling computer service in a production environment to a model in which consultants were placed at the client site. She continued her success in this industry at Prism in Watchung, NJ, where she maintained her “number one” status in sales every year until she left in 1994.

On this high note, Halasnik traded the security of full-time employment for the challenge of self-employment, co-founded Pyramid Consulting Services (now ThinkCentric), and has never looked back. During the first few months she incorporated the business and applied for and achieved official status as a New Jersey Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE). By early 1995, she had a growing list of billable consultants and a period of intense work and self-education began. Up to this point, Halasnik’s career had focused on sales—she quickly learned the ins and outs of recruiting and the other back-office functions needed to keep both clients and consultants happy in a fast-paced and competitive market. By 1997, the company had achieved 100% growth over the prior year and the entrepreneurial pair realized that their company had the potential to become a leader in the field. They took immediate steps to grow the company to the next level and secured space that could accommodate the staff needed to support the expansion and to keep their growing company competitive. In 1997, to open new channels to feed the market’s growing demands for talent, they formed DirectSource, an overseas sourcing company, which now has offices in Australia, India, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Africa. In 2001 Halasnik assumed the position of Executive Vice President of Sales for Direct Source Healthcare.

Ms. Halasnik holds an M.B.A. in Management from Fairleigh Dickenson University, Madison, NJ, and a B.A. degree in Computer Science and Marketing from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE.

For the past three years, Mr. Porrino has been advising Direct Source Healthcare in it’s business of the recruitment of registered nurses from the Philippines and other countries for placement at healthcare facilities in the United States. His primary role is in the area of business development and governmental affairs.

From 1970 to 1991, Mr. Porrino was a labor and employment lawyer at Putney, Twombly, Hall and Hirson in New York City. Representing the interests of management exclusively, Mr. Porrino had an extensive practice in higher education and healthcare.

Mr. Porrino received his B.A. from Bowdoin College and his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law.