Nathan was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. When he was young, Nathan's family moved from Arlington to Cambridge and then to Belmont, Massachusetts where Nathan attended elementary, middle and high school. Nathan is a member of the Belmont High School Class of 1977.
Nathan's mother, Mary Jane Gibson, ran for School Committee in Belmont and later ran for and was elected State Representative, representing Belmont and East Arlington. Nathan's father, R. Jerrold Gibson, was minister at Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church before working at Harvard University, and then later founded University Loan Services.
In high school, Nathan was active in several theater productions including Shakepeare's Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew, and musicals Annie Get Your Gun, and Li'l Abner.
After high school, Nathan attended Harvard College. While at Harvard, Nathan took an interest in politics and frequently attended events at the Institute of Politics. He also played intramural football and was a center for 4 years on the Eliot House team. Nathan majored in Economics and Government. Nathan took a leave of absence to join the Kennedy for President campaign. He worked in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Ohio for the Kennedy campaign and attended the Democratic Convention. He loved working with Michael Ventresca who was tragically killed in a car accident in 1985.
After college, Nathan attended Boston University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude and was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Law & Medicine. Nathan briefly practiced law at the firm of Peabody & Arnold.
Nathan later was the Executive Director of Common Cause Massachusetts. As Executive Director, he led a successful initiative petition campaign to collect 90,000 signatures to place Common Cause's proposed legislation, An Act for Accountable Politics, on the ballot. After Common Cause collected the signatures, the legislature enacted one of the strongest campaign finance reform laws in the country.
Nathan joined Select Appointments North America, which was purchased by Vedior, which was eventually purchased by Randstad where Nathan currently works. Nathan started as the payroll manager, managing the payroll for temporary workers including both temporary employees and independent contractors. Select Appointments had grown quickly and did not have established policies and procedures. Nathan quickly started developing and documenting policies and procedures. For example, with respect to independent contractors and per diem, Nathan researched the issues and drafted a policy for Select Appointments. Nathan was promoted to Director of Financial Operations and became responsible for both paying and billing temporary workers -- including both temporary employees and independent contractors. Select Appointments was acquired by Vedior but the acquisition did not affect the management of the company in the United States.
Select Appointments and then Vedior used a software developed by TKO Systems for the staffing industry. While it worked well in many respects, it also had shortcomings and senior management decided to move to an ERP platform. The selection committee chose Oracle and Vedior began converting its divisions to Oracle. Although TKO had its shorcomings, it was designed for the staffing industry, while Oracle was not. Despite the efforts of many, the conversion to Oracle did not go well and in 2002, the project was halted and any divisions that had been converted to Oracle were restored to TKO. At this time, having gained significant experience working on the conversion, Nathan moved from Financial Operations to IT and became the Director of Solutions Implementation, reporting directly to the CIO. In this role, Nathan served as the liaison between IT and the functional parts of the business and helped coordinate the implementation of many developments including the option to have a daily payroll system for one of the lines of business.
Nathan was recruited to join Global Managed Services (GMS), which became Randstad Managed Services which became Randstad Sourceright where Nathan currently works. Nathan was brought in to organize and streamline the operations. GMS was experiencing a number of errors, inaccurate invoices and other operational issues. Nathan helped stabilize the operation, put quality-control processes in place and worked with developers to make programming changes to reduce or eliminate data entry errors. In addition, he worked with developers to launch a website that enabled vendors to research their own invoices instead of calling GMS. Nathan worked to significantly reduce errors and dramatically improve the results of the group.
Nathan was then recruited by Randstad Professional's corporate offices to lead the payroll and billing operations. Nathan was responsible for 56 people and had 5 direct reports. Nathan introduced a number of the same improvements in corporate that he had introduced at GMS. He improved the focus on customer service by working with various groups and explaining the importance of customer service to the organization as a whole. In addition, he worked with groups to reduce invoice errors and improve efficiency. In 2011, Randstad purchased the SFN Group. The SFN Group had a mores sophisticated back office operations and used PeopleSoft while Randstad Professionals still used TKO. After reviewing the options, Randstad chose to combine their payroll and billing operations on PeopleSoft. When it became clear that Nathan's position managing the payroll and billing operations at Randstad Professionals was going to be eliminated, Nathan moved to Randstad Sourceright to focus on independent contractor compliance.
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Nathan's mother, Mary Jane Gibson, ran for School Committee in Belmont and later ran for and was elected State Representative, representing Belmont and East Arlington. Nathan's father, R. Jerrold Gibson, was minister at Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church before working at Harvard University, and then later founded University Loan Services.
In high school, Nathan was active in several theater productions including Shakepeare's Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew, and musicals Annie Get Your Gun, and Li'l Abner.
After high school, Nathan attended Harvard College. While at Harvard, Nathan took an interest in politics and frequently attended events at the Institute of Politics. He also played intramural football and was a center for 4 years on the Eliot House team. Nathan majored in Economics and Government. Nathan took a leave of absence to join the Kennedy for President campaign. He worked in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Ohio for the Kennedy campaign and attended the Democratic Convention. He loved working with Michael Ventresca who was tragically killed in a car accident in 1985.
After college, Nathan attended Boston University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude and was Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Law & Medicine. Nathan briefly practiced law at the firm of Peabody & Arnold.
Nathan later was the Executive Director of Common Cause Massachusetts. As Executive Director, he led a successful initiative petition campaign to collect 90,000 signatures to place Common Cause's proposed legislation, An Act for Accountable Politics, on the ballot. After Common Cause collected the signatures, the legislature enacted one of the strongest campaign finance reform laws in the country.
Nathan joined Select Appointments North America, which was purchased by Vedior, which was eventually purchased by Randstad where Nathan currently works. Nathan started as the payroll manager, managing the payroll for temporary workers including both temporary employees and independent contractors. Select Appointments had grown quickly and did not have established policies and procedures. Nathan quickly started developing and documenting policies and procedures. For example, with respect to independent contractors and per diem, Nathan researched the issues and drafted a policy for Select Appointments. Nathan was promoted to Director of Financial Operations and became responsible for both paying and billing temporary workers -- including both temporary employees and independent contractors. Select Appointments was acquired by Vedior but the acquisition did not affect the management of the company in the United States.
Select Appointments and then Vedior used a software developed by TKO Systems for the staffing industry. While it worked well in many respects, it also had shortcomings and senior management decided to move to an ERP platform. The selection committee chose Oracle and Vedior began converting its divisions to Oracle. Although TKO had its shorcomings, it was designed for the staffing industry, while Oracle was not. Despite the efforts of many, the conversion to Oracle did not go well and in 2002, the project was halted and any divisions that had been converted to Oracle were restored to TKO. At this time, having gained significant experience working on the conversion, Nathan moved from Financial Operations to IT and became the Director of Solutions Implementation, reporting directly to the CIO. In this role, Nathan served as the liaison between IT and the functional parts of the business and helped coordinate the implementation of many developments including the option to have a daily payroll system for one of the lines of business.
Nathan was recruited to join Global Managed Services (GMS), which became Randstad Managed Services which became Randstad Sourceright where Nathan currently works. Nathan was brought in to organize and streamline the operations. GMS was experiencing a number of errors, inaccurate invoices and other operational issues. Nathan helped stabilize the operation, put quality-control processes in place and worked with developers to make programming changes to reduce or eliminate data entry errors. In addition, he worked with developers to launch a website that enabled vendors to research their own invoices instead of calling GMS. Nathan worked to significantly reduce errors and dramatically improve the results of the group.
Nathan was then recruited by Randstad Professional's corporate offices to lead the payroll and billing operations. Nathan was responsible for 56 people and had 5 direct reports. Nathan introduced a number of the same improvements in corporate that he had introduced at GMS. He improved the focus on customer service by working with various groups and explaining the importance of customer service to the organization as a whole. In addition, he worked with groups to reduce invoice errors and improve efficiency. In 2011, Randstad purchased the SFN Group. The SFN Group had a mores sophisticated back office operations and used PeopleSoft while Randstad Professionals still used TKO. After reviewing the options, Randstad chose to combine their payroll and billing operations on PeopleSoft. When it became clear that Nathan's position managing the payroll and billing operations at Randstad Professionals was going to be eliminated, Nathan moved to Randstad Sourceright to focus on independent contractor compliance.
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