MedAssets adds two officers to its C-suite

MedAssets recently added two new officers to its C-suite, just over a month after its founder, John Bardis, stepped down as CEO.

Charles Garner has been promoted to executive VP and chief strategy and transformation officer, after serving as executive VP and CFO at the Alpharetta, Ga.-based group purchasing and revenue-cycle management company. Anthony Colaluca, has joined to replace him as CFO.

Both appointments were effective immediately when announced earlier this week. The chief strategy and transformation officer role is a new position for the company.

Garner, 44, became CFO in April 2011, after joining MedAssets in 2005. Before that, he had worked at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Bain & Co. and American Management Systems, a former consulting firm that is now a part of CGI Group.

Colaluca, 48, most recently worked as an independent business consultant. Between 2005 and 2010, he served as CFO of Intergraph Corp., a engineering and geospatial software company. Before that, he served as CFO for several other technology companies, including Harland Financial Solutions, Solution 6 North America and Computer Management Sciences, which has since been acquired.

MedAssets CEO R. Halsey Wise has worked with Colaluca several times before. Before joining MedAssets, Wise served as chairman and CEO at Intergraph, president and CEO of Solution 6 North America and president and COO of Computer Management Sciences.

Bardis, the company's founder, resigned as CEO of the company in mid-February, citing “personal reasons” related to family health issues. Bardis, who launched the company in 1999, will remain at the company as a part-time consultant.

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