About Us

Stephen is the company’s Chief Executive. Prior to joining WorkMarket, Stephen served as a senior vice president and general manager at Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HP). There he held multiple leadership roles including leading the Americas for the Personal Systems Group and as the worldwide leader for Enterprise Marketing. During Stephen’s 30+ years in the technology industry he has served on the senior staffs of industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), and Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) and has scaled multiple start-ups from the earliest stages, through dynamic growth to market leadership.

As President and CEO of Cobalt Networks, Stephen led the company from its market creating roots to a high profile IPO and ultimately a multi-billion dollar acquisition by Sun Microsystems. He is a graduate of Babson College and has served on many public and private boards throughout the years.

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.

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, Benton served as Global Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), 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 (NYSE: ORCL), 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.

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 (NYSE:VG) 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 (NASDAQ: MSFT) 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.