# Ben Thompson > Ben Thompson is co-founder and CEO. Employment Hero Payroll on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-thompson/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-thompson/index.md (~900 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-thompson/index.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ben-thompson/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-28 Co-founder and CEO. Ben Thompson founded Employment Hero with Dave Tong in 2014 and is its CEO. The company runs HR, payroll and employee benefits software used by more than 350,000 businesses. Before Employment Hero he worked as an employment lawyer, and his background spans employment law, banking and finance. - X: https://x.com/bnthompson ## What Ben builds - [Employment Hero Payroll](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/employment-hero.md), graded D, 50.6/100, in Payroll infrastructure. Employment Hero Payroll (formerly KeyPay) is cloud payroll for Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia. Its REST API covers businesses, employees, timesheets, leave, pay runs and reports, with an API key or OAuth 2.0. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27. ## Works with - [Dave Tong](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dave-tong/), Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer ## Backed by - [TCV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tcv/) - [Insight Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/insight-partners/) ## Questions ### Who is Ben Thompson? Ben Thompson founded Employment Hero with Dave Tong in 2014 and is its CEO. The company runs HR, payroll and employee benefits software used by more than 350,000 businesses. Before Employment Hero he worked as an employment lawyer, and his background spans employment law, banking and finance. ### What does Employment Hero Pty Ltd make? Anchor Terminal lists Employment Hero Payroll from Employment Hero Pty Ltd. Employment Hero Payroll (formerly KeyPay) is cloud payroll for Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia. Its REST API covers businesses, employees, timesheets, leave, pay runs and reports, with an API key or OAuth 2.0. ### Who has invested in Employment Hero Pty Ltd? The sources our research read name TCV and Insight Partners. ### How are Ben's tools graded? Employment Hero Payroll is graded D, 50.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://employmenthero.com/about-us/ - https://x.com/bnthompson - https://employmenthero.com/authors/dave-tong/ - https://about.me/davetong - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-tong-a1764431/ - https://x.com/dave_tong - https://employmenthero.com/ - https://help.employmenthero.com/hc/en-gb/articles/17426647805327-Contact-support-for-help - https://help.employmenthero.com/hc/en-gb/articles/17426655792911-Access-Hero-Connect - https://employmenthero.com/contact/ These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp