{"id":549213,"date":"2026-03-18T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:00:08","slug":"employment-hero-founder-ben-thompson-appoints-new-managing-director-to-drive-ai-powered-global-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549213\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Hero founder Ben Thompson appoints new managing director to drive AI-powered global expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of private human resources technology unicorn Employment Hero says artificial intelligence has given it the ability to build a major new product with such global potential that he has appointed its first Australian managing director to handle the day-to-day running of the local business.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Thompson has run Employment Hero since founding it alongside Dave Tong in 2014, and will continue to do so, but he has promoted long-time sales executive James Keene to become its Asia-Pacific managing director, while he focuses on global expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of private human resources technology unicorn Employment Hero says artificial intelligence has given it the ability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-549213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}