James Powers

BIO

James is an entrepreneur and business operator; founding, growing and ultimately selling several successful companies in a variety of industries. In the last 15 years his focus has been on healthcare and technology, and most recently he served as Chairman, & CEO of Calibrus. Calibrus is a contact center focused on third party verification and other contact center services. Prior to his role at Calibrus, he was the Chairman, President & CEO at iLinc Communications, Inc until he sold iLinc to Broadsoft, Inc. in September 2011. Prior to starting iLinc, he was the co-founder, Chairman and President of Clearidge, Inc., a Nashville, TN based bottled water company that he led through 16 acquisitions to become one of the largest independent bottlers in the southeast and then sold it to Suntory, the second largest bottler in the world. James was also the co-founder and President of Barnhill’s Buffet, a restaurant chain started in Memphis, TN, which he helped grow to more than 3,000 employees with restaurants throughout the southeast before selling it in 2004. In addition, he founded Liberty Dental Group in Nashville, TN, where he served as Chairman, President and CEO. In 1998, Liberty merged with publicly-traded Pentegra Dental Group and he re-located to Phoenix, AZ to serve as Chairman, President & CEO.