governance

Our Board Members

Board of directors

Thomas Derum

Founder, CEO & Chairman

  • Thomas is a serial entrepreneur, founder and investor with a particular passion for startups, scaleups and tech businesses.

    While serving in Founder, CEO and COO roles across the BPO, telecom and tech sectors over 20 years across startups, SMEs and enterprises, he saw an opportunity to use technology to attack one of the biggest problems in the world - the global talent crunch. This insight led Thomas to create Outstaffer in 2020.

    Today, as CEO and Chairman, he leads Outstaffer on its mission to enable companies to overcome the limits of their local talent pool by building software that makes it amazingly simple to find, hire, equip and pay talented workers from around the world compliantly.

Michael Locaso

COO & Executive Director

  • Michael is an experienced Founder, CEO & COO, and investor, having founded and invested in a number of early-stage technology businesses over his career. Michael has a strong passion for building technology centric companies that are solving real-world problems.

    Michael joined Outstaffer 2022 as an investor and became its COO and Executive Director, taking a lead role in securing Outstaffer’s first funding round, and bringing in some of Australia’s leading VC firms and investors.

    Today, as COO and Executive Director, he leads Outstaffer’s global operations and responsible for overseas market entry to enable our customers to find, hire, equip and pay talented workers around the world compliantly.

Board of advisors

Dave Kuhn

Advisory Board Member

  • David Kuhn is a serial entrepreneur, digital product guru, hardcore software engineer and CTO with 20 years experience in the digital product landscape.

    With successful startups originating from both Sydney and Silicon Valley, David was the founding CTO for Spaceship, a millennial superannuation and investment platform with over $1.2B under management.David is also an expert in disruptive technologies shaping our world including cloud, mobile, big data, AI and blockchain.

    Dave joined Outstaffer in 2022 as its CTO, building from scratch our Global Workforce Platform. Today’s he advises our product, engineering and technology teams with a strong focus on reliability, security, data protection, compliance and user experience.

Our Investors

We’re backed by leading investors and VCs who believe in our mission

Automated SaaS Global WORKFORCE Platform

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