By Khalida Sarwari
When Nathan Sanders needed a name for his company, he enlisted the help of his wife, Ann, and the two collectively came up with Bridgenex.
The idea behind the name, he said, is that the company serves as a bridge between job candidates and their next career opportunity, or as a bridge between companies and their next hire.
Sanders, 43, is the president of Bridgenex, a staffing and recruiting company in downtown San Jose that specializes in placing engineers in hardware, software and other technical fields.
With a staff of 78 employees, many from the Bay Area, the firm offers four services: professional search, temporary staffing, recruitment processing outsourcing and consulting.
While most of Bridgenex’s clients are located in Silicon Valley, the company has started to branch out to other parts of the country, namely Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas and Illinois. Among Bridgenex’s clients are Title Systems, a startup in San Jose with roots in Saratoga, and Sandforce, a Saratoga startup acquired by LSI.
While it competes with the likes of Robert Half and Adecco, what sets Bridgenex apart from those companies is that it is a boutique staffing firm focused mostly on technical sectors.
“We have a real kind of focus niche in that area,” Sanders said.
When he founded Bridgenex in 2005, Sanders fulfilled a goal he had set for himself in college to build a company. The tech influence stems from his work as an IT manager after college and later as a technical recruiter for companies such as LSI and Cadence.
“I really enjoy tech, so I wanted to make sure I tied myself to something in that space,” he said.
In the future, he said he hopes to continue building the company’s professional search service, adding new clients while building relationships with existing ones, and increasing the company’s footprint in the Bay Area.
Sanders was reared in Santa Clara and graduated from UC-Davis with a degree in communications. He resides in Saratoga with his wife and their children, 4-year-old Wynter and 10-month-old Hunter.
“We moved to Saratoga in 2014 to put our children through the Saratoga school system, and because we truly appreciate the ethnic and cultural diversity that the Saratoga community has to offer,” he said.
Sanders is an honorary member and secretary for the Human Resources Consultants Association. He said he’d like to explore volunteer opportunities in Saratoga.
“I’m very interested in finding a local cause and would be interested in working with one of the local senior centers or some other local nonprofit association to donate time and to support the Saratoga community,” he said.
For more information about Bridgenex, visit bridgenex.com.
Link: Saratoga’s Sanders helps to bridge a gap with his company, Bridgenex
