As the son of a physician, Nurses Pro founder and CEO Kashif Aftab always found himself around nurses. Whether watching them care for a sick child, administer a vaccination, or assist in the OR, he was always aware of the important role they played in the world of medicine. In 2003, Kashif was running a successful $6 million/year I.T. consulting firm, an industry that traditionally pays its consultants only a fraction of the rate that the company bills its clients. Viewing that pay structure as “unfair” and “greedy,” he instituted a payment structure that he felt was fairer to his employeesâ€"he paid them 70% of their billing rate if he found them the work, and 80% if the consultants found their own work but used the consulting firm as the administrative backbone. He found that thi