Dave Tong is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Employment Hero. Ben Thompson is the founder and CEO.
The platform launched in 2014 from the offices of Employment Innovations, and the team worked remotely from an early stage.
Employment Hero later acquired Employment Innovations for A$43 million and the Canadian business Humi for A$112 million. In 2020 it ran webinars for employers during the pandemic.
The company has grown to a team of more than 1,700 and added AI recruitment agents.