About Us

Jeff serves as the company’s President and is a co-founder of WorkMarket. Jeff has a long track record as a successful entrepreneur across the technology and services landscape. He has successfully built and sold multiple tech companies, including SpinBack to Buddy Media, which was subsequently purchased by Salesforce.com for $800 million.

Jeff has a deep background and passion for talent management and is widely recognized as a thought leader on labor force evolution. He speaks regularly on the subject of modernizing workforces and the role of contingent labor and has been a contributing writer to Forbes on the topic. Jeff holds a B.S. and an M.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Jens joined ADP in 2013 as Vice President Strategy & Innovation in its Small Business Services organization, and subsequently was General Manager at ADP’s internal new business incubator ADP Ventures. At ADP Ventures, Jens drove ADP’s initiatives around the gig economy as well as the acquisition of WorkMarket. He is now the General Manager at WorkMarket, where he is focused on driving scale in the business and leading the integration with the ADP ecosystem. Prior to ADP, Jens spent 10 years as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company in Europe, Asia and the US. Jens holds an MA in Economics from Ghent University (Belgium), an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the Dean’s Award.

Tom Benton is a seasoned enterprise executive with more than 20 years of high-tech sales experience. Tom has a proven track record of optimizing high performance sales organizations to drive top-line growth. Prior to WorkMarket, Tom served as Global Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Salesforce, where he led the growth strategy for the Enterprise Business Unit and held global revenue responsibility for the HR and Employee Engagement Offering and the launch of Analytics Cloud.

Previously, he worked for Oracle, holding the positions of Vice President of Sales, Strategic Growth Markets; Vice President of Sales, North America Technology Organization; and Senior Director of Platform Solutions and Database Appliance.

As VP of Business Integration, Mark drives integration & scaling of WorkMarket’s business functions into ADP’s products, processes and back-office systems. Mark started his ADP career in 2001 and has held various cross-functional roles from sales & sales operations to program management while supporting clients of all sizes- from small business to enterprise. Prior to WorkMarket he was Senior Director, Program Manager for ADP’s Affordable Care Act solution, where he led the highest priority cross-functional projects in ADP’s fastest growing business in its history.

Yujin Kim is a proven technology leader with over 20 years of experience ranging from consumer software to enterprise software. Yujin joined WorkMarket in 2015 and is currently responsible for developing innovative, secure and scalable software solutions for WorkMarket’s enterprise clients and freelancers on the platform.

Prior to joining WorkMarket, Yujin was responsible for large scale platform operations for The New York Times and other media companies where he spearheaded cloud adoption strategy, cost management and agile development. He also has experience in developing enterprise content management software, B2B exchange and large scale ecommerce systems.

Grady is a product management executive with more than 20 years of software experience spanning consumer, enterprise, and platform technologies. He has a proven track record of developing innovative product concepts, identifying emerging market opportunities and delivering commercialized software successes.

Prior to joining WorkMarket, Grady served as vice president of Product Management for Vonage where he led their mobile business strategy and product efforts. Before that, he served as VP of Product Management at Animoto, CEO of mobile content provider Phone Sherpa, and Director of internet jewelry retailer Blue Nile. Earlier in his career, Grady spent 9 years at Microsoft in various product and general management roles working on platform technologies and the first version of Microsoft’s Tablet PC. He holds a B.S.E in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

John runs Solutions Engineering and Professional Services at Work Market where he helps clients integrate the Work Market platform with their existing systems. John was the Founder and CEO of Crowdster, a peer-to-peer engagement platform for nonprofits that later pivoted into gamification solutions for enterprises.

John’s entrepreneurial roots started with FatWire Software, an enterprise Web Content Management software company he started in a bedroom with two partners. John holds an MBA from the University of Maryland with a concentration in Information Technology and Operations Management and a BA from Tufts University.

Debi is a Senior Director – HR business partner. An ADP associate since 2000, she has overseen 2 acquisitions (from both sides) and a ‘homegrown’ start up. Debi’s tenure lays in the Global Product and Technology function, where she was the HR business partner to several SVPs who lead technology for ‘Small Business Services’, ‘Product Management’, ‘Enterprise Architecture’. ‘UX CoE’, ‘Innovation labs’ and ‘Innovative Payroll Engine’. She moved to the ‘Compliance Services’ division in January 2018, specifically to provide senior HR leadership to WorkMarket.

Debi focuses on integrating WorkMarket with HR at ADP, while keeping in mind WorkMarket’s uniqueness. Originally from the UK, Debi moved to the USA in 2014 to help provide HR guidance, strategic direction and support the growth and innovative direction that ADP’s technology division was taking. She is a graduate from Sheffield Hallam University with a BA(Hons) in Business Studies.