DENVER, Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IQNavigator announced the appointment of Graden Gerig as the new Executive Vice President of Professional Services and Engineering. In his new role, Graden will lead IQNavigator's delivery of industry-leading technology that help clients better manage the growing sector of non-employee workers and procured services.

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IQNavigator provides VMS solutions to many of the world's best-known businesses across all industries, including retail, oil and gas, high tech manufacturing and financial services. Recent trends are requiring successful firms to more quickly react to economic and market pressures. Deep visibility and easy automation of the contingent workforce is a critical lever in the cost analysis equation. Firms with a strong contingent workforce program have the unique ability to quickly and easily adjust staffing resources to ramp up for market movements or ramp down to quickly impact financial results.

Graden's experience with enterprise consulting, systems integration and SasS solutions brings proven expertise to support IQNavigator's ongoing corporate initiatives to support the complex requirements of large global clients better than any other VMS provider. A seasoned expert with implementations, Graden's proven success of  global process enablement across multiple enterprise systems aligns perfectly with IQNavigator's services procurement ecosystem that includes thousands of service partners, software partners, content partners and suppliers.

"At IQNavigator, we are hyper-focused on our clients' success," said Lou Andreozzi, CEO and president of IQNavigator, "and hiring an executive such as Graden with such an impressive record of SaaS integrations and implementations only strengthens our ability to streamline the delivery of the leading VMS solution for the world's largest contingent workforce programs."

Graden brings over 20 years' experience to IQNavigator in developing solutions and delivering global services to Fortune 500 companies and has held various SaaS engineering, implementation, consulting and management roles at SuccessFactors, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

About IQNavigator

IQNavigator is the proven leader in services procurement solutions, helping global enterprises better manage all types of procured services and their external workforces around the world. IQNavigator's cloud-based VMS software processes tens of billions of dollars in yearly services spend, enabling clients to intelligently manage and optimize the cost-effectiveness, compliance, visibility and efficiency of complex services procurement and contingent workforce programs. For more than a decade, IQNavigator has been the leader in providing innovative technology solutions for managing companies' procured services including statement of work and project-based consultants, contractors, temporary workers and other contingent workers. For more information about IQNavigator and how its industry-leading offerings such as IQNtelligence are helping many of the world's most respected companies, visit www.IQNavigator.com.

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