Paul Sarvadi vs Burton Goldfield

Paul Sarvadi

CEO of Insperity

BIO: Mr. Paul J. Sarvadi Co-Founded Insperity, Inc. (also known as Administaff Inc.) in 1986 and has been its Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 1989. Mr. Sarvadi has been Management Director of Insperity, Inc. since 1986. He served as the President of Administaff from 1989 to August 2003. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and Treasurer of Administaff Inc. from 1986 to April 1987 and then Vice President from April 1987 to 1989. He has been President of National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO). He was President of the Texas Chapter of the NAPEO for three of the first four years of its existence. He serves on the Board of Directors of the DePelchin Children's Center in Houston. He was a Member of Board of Directors of NAPEO for five years. In 2007, he was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. In 1995, Mr. Sarvadi was selected as Houston's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries and in 2001, he was selected as the 2001 National Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for service industries. In 2004, he received the Conn Family Distinguished New Venture Leader Award from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Mr. Sarvadi attended Rice University and the University of Houston.

Burton Goldfield

CEO of TriNet

BIO: Since 2008, Burton M. Goldfield has served as President and CEO of TriNet. With more than 25 years of experience in sales, operational, and technology leadership roles, he is known for driving product innovation and business growth. Burton has transformed the company into a leading cloud-based HR provider and Professional Employer Organization. TriNet’s net revenue has more than quadrupled during his tenure. To expand TriNet’s market reach and strengthen the company’s ability to serve more clients than ever before, Burton led the company to acquire Gevity, AccordHR, SOI, ExpenseCloud and Ambrose. One of the outcomes of TriNet’s growth was an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in March 2014 followed by a secondary offering in September 2014. TriNet is traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. Prior to TriNet, Burton was CEO at Ketera Technologies, a Santa Clara-based SaaS provider to FORTUNE 2000 companies. Before that, Burton served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations at Hyperion Solutions Corporation and Vice President of Worldwide Sales for IBM Corporation’s Rational Software division. Burton earned a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from Villanova University. The San Francisco Business Times has named him a Most Admired CEO.