Who We Are

Mr. Rick Niemi  is the founder and CEO of IPS. Rick is a savvy business and marketing leader. As a market innovator with 15 years of experience growing and building companies, Mr. Niemi has a solid record of accomplishments, and has successfully executed marketing techniques with a hands on approach since 1995. Rick was the President and CEO of Gold River Pharmacy, a chronic care pharmacy provider, from 1995 to 2006 and led efforts to bring personalized medication, compliance packaging, and management services to chronically ill patients in the Sacramento region. At Gold River Pharmacy,dba Pinnacare, Rick led efforts that produced a branded compliance package called Pinnapak and worked with his management team to technology-enable the business model that produced high quality customer service at the lowest possible cost to the payers of prescription drugs.

His extensive experience in the areas of brand development, marketing and business development in this space, make him an expert in using strategies and technologies to vertically or horizontally grow a company in pharmacy. His passion is working with people to make a concept become reality. With effective leadership, people developing, and communication skills,  he is a vision caster and motivator that encourages everyone he works with.  At IPS he is leading efforts to bring new strategies and technologies to "Big Pharma" and the pharmacy industry, nationwide. These efforts efforts will increase profitability and prove IPS' concepts to be valuable for the drug suppliers, the pharmacies, the patient consumers, and their caregivers.  Mr. Niemi's goal is to build proprietary uses for GetAbby technologies through a supplier channel in the market, for the benefit of the pharmacy customer and their staff. Rick's mission at IPS is to bring the future of pharmacy to the present day and to demonstrate a positive ROI with the pharmacy-specific key performance indicators IPS' solutions will positively affect.

Andrew Beyers Rph., is co-founder and President of Pharmacy Services for Integrated  Pharmacy Solutions. Mr. Beyers is a pharmacy executive leader with senior management experience in hospital, poison control, long-term care, mail-service, managed care, and home health pharmacy environments. Mr. Beyers was VP of Pharmacy Operations for Pinnacare and proved to transform a manual oriented company into a state of the art, fully automated, system integrated, bar code tracking, outsourced delivery, client-retaining, technology-enabled organization. Prior to  that, Andrew was the director of Pharmacy for Prescription Solutions and managed more than 15,000 prescriptions per day. Mr. Beyers was responsible for approximately 370 employees, and managed $400 million plus in annual revenue from 1993 through 2000.

At IPS, Andrew provided extensive knowledge, expertise, consulting, and executive project management in the areas of automation, robotics, bar code tracking utilization (QA and QC), system integration, customer service standards, inventory controls, retention methods, physical and geographical expansion procedures, work-flow and best practices, and key indicator development--for custom and quality reporting to the pharmacy managers. Andrew develops and project-manages custom solutions for pharmacy industry pains and will work directly with key management, and personnel to accomplish desired outcomes. Andrew's mission is to see that every customer has the opportunity to operate at the lowest cost possible and to provide "niche" consulting on everything from how to leverage automated filling machinery to developing the custom key performance indicators for your operation. Mr. Beyer's process oriented mind will amaze even the most talented people and provide them with rational thinking from management, the pharmacist, and the patient's point of view. With customer service being the driving focus of everything he develops, every customer of IPS will feel like the only customer.., he's that good!

Hilda Niemi Rph., is a pharmacist consultant for IPS. Mrs. Niemi's background is in national retail chains and closed-door pharmacy settings. Mrs. Niemi's track record of success in customer service is a value-add to her employers, direct reports, and patients. This and more has made Hilda the glue of the pharmacy operations she's worked for during her career. Hilda has a unique talent to bring out the best in her pharmacy technicians as well as other pharmacists. Being able to relate at the customer, pharmacy technician, and at the pharmacist level, Mrs. Niemi has exuded a successful blend of personality and skill set that commands and demands the respect and admiration of everyone she encounters. She does it, ever so humbly, with quiet confidence, humility, and integrity. Hilda's work is great,  yet when she gets that smile going,  it lights up the entire room.  Mrs. Niemi adds needed work environment perspectives that bring the human aspect of our work to the forefront.

Mrs. Niemi enables IPS to better understand the mind and mentality of today's pharmacist, pharmacy technician, to assist us with the subjective aspect of the pharmacy workplace.  Her 15 years in pharmacy - in California serve her quiet well, and you'd never know she was a pharmacist that long if you met her in person. She is a fabulous talent, productive employee, dependable confidant, and joyful-add to our team of brainpower.

Efrain Gonzalez, MD is a physician consultant for IPS and  very accomplished entrepreneur. Doctor Gonzalez has the skill to blend his physician talents with a unique flair of entrepreneurial excellence. Ever the calculated risk taker, Dr. Gonzalez exemplifies the "change maker" mentality IPS exudes in its endeavor to bring new market strategies to realization. Dr. Gonzalez is an Ob-Gyn and has been a physician for 15 years. An accomplished business owner, and his medical clinic currently serves over 15,000 patients annually. Dr. Gonzalez's educational background includes learning at Hofstra, Sacred Heart, Catholic Medical Center, St. Paul Ramsey Medical Center, and Ponce District Hospital.

His professional memberships include American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologist, and American College of Phlebotomy. He is also a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, Cosmetic Breast Surgery, American Society of Liposuction Surgery, and American Medical Association Member. His Board accomplishments include National Board of Medical Licensing, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fellow of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Cosmetic Surgery, and College of Surgery. At IPS, Dr. Gonzalez will enable our management team and clients with perspective as only a physician and plastic surgeon can. Being entrepreneurially grounded and experienced with business ownership, Dr. Gonzalez will assist our efforts to create positive change using our product offering with GetAbby to lead the evolution of technology enhancements and strategies for physicians, pharmacy, and related medical markets.

Yessennia Candelaria, MD is a physician consultant and an accomplished Pediatrician. Dr. Candelaria is very well respected and rounds out our team of talent with a blend of intuitive genius and creative thought processes. Her vast knowledge relative to general health care and Pediatrics render her extremely suited to help us with client services and supportive ideology for after the sale "next steps". Her knack for client services practicing medicine lend her to provide IPS a special talent and valuable asset to our team. Yessennia's areas of acumen are in patient care, customer service, and relationship management. They allow for a unique and needed perspective from a physician"s point of view. This enables Yessennnia to keep business goals and patient objectives in mind, simultaneously, and creates a subjective and objective mind frame that gives our team balance, intelligence, and rational strategic thinking. She compliments the vision and big picture thought processes provided by company President, Mr. Niemi and consultant team member, Dr. Gonzalez.

Dr. Candelaria's educational background includes University or Puerto Rico, Catholic University, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, Ponce School of Medicine, Jose N. Gandara Hospital, and St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital. Yessennia's work experience includes working at Policlinicas de Ponce in a Pediatrician and Vice President capacity from 2000 to present. Additionally, she has had her own private practice since 2001. At IPS, Yessennia will provide extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of customer service, patient care, and retention methods. Her Board accomplishments include the American Board of Pediatrics.

Tony Daugherty  is IPS's Client Services Consultant.  Tony brings over 20 years of leadership in building client service programs and operation teams for Fortune 500 companies with annual revenues over $130 million. Previously, Mr. Daugherty worked in various leadership positions with DST Systems, Isuzu Motors America, and McDonnell Douglas Aircraft. He has an Engineering degree from Texas A&M and MBA from Pepperdine University.

Tony's extensive experience in building CRM programs clearly makes him a leading innovator and valuable asset for the IPS team. Tony will assist our efforts to establish retention methods for our pharmacy customers and provide tangible and actionable solutions for everything from after the sale support, to ongoing relationship building with our client's customer base.

Mr. Daugherty compliments the personality and skill set of our leadership team as the analytical structurer of the group. With Mr. Beyers leading IPS's pharmacy competency and solutions, and Mr. Niemi leading with values, vision, and people developing, Mr. Daugherty completes the skill set and personality needed to provide the most well rounded solutions for our clients. In the roles Tony has served in, he has shown to increase revenue, decrease cost, increase retention rates, and build CRM programs from the ground up.

Able to take the big picture and break it down into actionable steps for the company, Tony understands what it takes to build his team, lead the plan, work the action steps, and report the outcomes. We're thrilled and fortunate to have Tony lead our client services ideolology. At IPS, Mr. Daugherty will assist development of custom CRM programs and work heavily with our President of Pharmacy Services to marry strategies that will be innovative, cost effective, while producing positive results for our clients.