Interview with the President & CEO: Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (CCRN)

Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 2, 2015

William J. Grubbs is President and CEO of Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. is a leader in health care staffing with a primary focus on providing nurse, allied and physician — locum tenens — staffing services and workforce solutions to the health care market. With more than 25 years of experience in the recruiting industry, Mr. Grubbs has held a variety of senior executive positions in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Most recently, he served as EVP and COO of TrueBlue Inc., and previously as EVP and COO of SFN Group, formerly known as Spherion Corp. Mr. Grubbs was part of the executive team that successfully sold SFN Group to Randstad in 2011. In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Grubbs was named to the top 100 most influential people in the staffing industry by Staffing Industry Analysts. Cross Country Healthcare, Inc., based in Boca Raton, Florida, ranks number four on Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2013 list of the largest U. S. health care staffing firms. Profile

TWST: Give us a little bit of a history of Cross Country.

Mr. Grubbs: We have been in business for more than 35 years. We started in travel nursing originally, but we have expanded that

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Interview with the President & CEO: Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (CCRN)

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