Martin Babinec

Martin Babinec founded TriNet in Silicon Valley in 1988 and led the cloud-based HR services company as CEO for its first twenty years and as chairman until 2010. TriNet grew to serve thousands of small and midsize companies and now trades on the New York Stock Exchange. After building the business, Babinec returned to his hometown of Little Falls in Upstate New York, where he founded the nonprofit Upstate Venture Connect along with StartFast Ventures and UpVentures Capital to help entrepreneurs start and grow companies across the region. In More Good Jobs: An Entrepreneur's Action Plan to Create Change in Your Community, he lays out a playbook for turning a community into a magnet for new companies and the jobs they create.