Appointed in 2006, Dianna Sheppard brings more than 22 years of leadership experience to Advantec. She is the former Senior Vice President, Sales and Partnership Management, of Ceridian, a leading HR managed business solutions organization serving more than 20 million worksite employees and 75% of Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Sheppard directly managed a team of over 1000 employees within her division that included sales, account management and implementation and managed plans resulting in record retention of both employees and customers. In addition to the many years she served in high level positions in the HR outsourcing industry, Ms. Sheppard has personal experience as a business owner and entrepreneur which is significant to her proven ability to understand and meet client expectations. Ms. Sheppard has been active in many community organizations and served on the Board of the American Youth Soccer Organization. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations and on the Thunderbird School of Management’s Global Leadership Council. Ms. Sheppard is certified in Six Sigma Practices.
 

Prior to her appointment as Chief Operating Officer, Christine Bellaire served Advantec in many leadership positions, including Senior Vice President of Finance and Vice President of Pricing. Before joining Advantec in 2004, Christine Bellaire was the Director of Finance for the Western Region of the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic Health System. She has served in additional finance positions as the Chief Financial Officer of SHPS, Inc. and the Division Controller for HealthPlan Services, Inc. Ms. Bellaire worked for both Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse, becoming one of the youngest audit managers in Price Waterhouse’s history and one of the firm’s leading health care specialists.
 

Prior to joining Advantec in 2006, Steve Cohen was a Regional Vice President of Sales for Ceridian. He has 17 years of experience in sales leadership and partnership development at three of the top human resource solution providers: ADP, Ceridian and Ultimate Software. Mr. Cohen has extensive expertise in establishing new markets and has managed a national sales organization. He has spent a greater part of his career delivering HR solutions to Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Cohen has been trained and certified in Six Sigma practices.
 

Bradley Rhine joined Advantec in 2009, bringing over 20 years of experience applying information technology assets to financial, human resources, payroll and benefits business services. Prior to joining Advantec, Mr. Rhine was CEO and co-founder of Cogentes, a business and technology consulting firm serving large-scale enterprise business operations. His past experience also includes tenure as Ceridian’s Vice President of Systems Engineering for its U.S. Human Resources Services division, as well as executive leadership roles with Concur Technologies. At Concur, Mr. Rhine was instrumental in pioneering efforts to apply Internet technologies to HR and related business services. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rhine gained valuable experience with complex networked systems while developing and implementing intelligence data handling systems for the U.S. Department of Defense.
 

Bob Smolinski joined Advantec in 2005. He has been a financial professional for over 24 years, with experience in the human resource outsourcing business, technology development, manufacturing and “Big Four” public accounting. Before joining Advantec, Mr. Smolinski was the Vice President and Treasurer at ABR Information Services, a publicly traded company providing comprehensive benefits administration, payroll, and human resource services to employers of all sizes. He has also served as Vice President and Controller for EPIX Holdings, a Finance Manager for Lucent Technologies and a Tax Manager at Deloitte & Touche.
 

As Vice President of Product Innovation Bill Zint is responsible for driving the company’s product strategies related to customer experience, especially those that help companies to achieve operational excellence.  Bill has over 25 years of experience in in Product Management and Product Marketing.  Prior to joining Advantec, Bill served as Director of Product Marketing for Employer Solutions at Sage Software in St. Petersburg, Florida.  He was founder and principal of EBS Group, Inc., an Atlanta-based independent HR consulting firm specializing in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), until 2004, and previously served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Automatic Data Processing, Inc’s (ADP)  National Accounts Services.  Prior to joining ADP, Bill served in various marketing and sales management roles at Siemens Business Services, Frankfurt, Germany; NCR Dayton Ohio; and AT&T Computer Systems, Dallas Texas.  Bill frequently speaks at industry conferences with previous speaking experience at several HR and payroll industry conferences, including APA’s Annual Congress  and the HR Technology Conference & Exhibition.  He recently served as a Payroll Industry Expert on a major payroll fraud legal case in California.