TriNet CEO and leadership

Burton M. Goldfield is a United States-born business executive. He is currently the president and CEO of TriNet; a cloud-based professional employer organization (PEO) for small and medium-sized businesses. He is profiled in San Francisco Business Times and also featured as the “Most Admired CEO” in the same publication. He is a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine and his articles feature issues relevant to SMBs.

Samantha Wellington is a Managing Counsel at ORACLE CORP; Board Member at Oracle Polska SP Zoo; and Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary at TriNet and is based in Dublin, California. She has worked as Board Member at SOPHOI INDUSTRIES PRIVATE LIMITED, Board Member at Oracle Hrvatska Doo, and Board Member at ORACLE ROMANIA SRL. Samantha attended UNSW until 2007 and UOW between 2002 and 2002.

Jonathan LeCompte joined TriNet in May 2021 and serves as senior vice president and chief sales officer. In this role, he is responsible for leading the Company’s sales function and team.

LeCompte joined TriNet from Verizon Communications, where he served more than 27 years working in executive sales roles with increasing levels of responsibility. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and President of the West Area for Verizon, leading 5,000 employees. Prior to that role, and as President of the Pacific Market, LeCompte had P&L responsibility for a $14 billion organization that saw consistent growth in both market share and service revenue.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Jonathan holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Seattle University.

Michael Mendenhall joined TriNet in March 2018 as senior vice president and chief marketing officer / chief communications officer. He leads all marketing and communications functions, including messaging, branding, advertising, demand generation, product marketing and corporate communications.

Michael is a marketing and technology veteran with extensive leadership experience. Prior to TriNet, he most recently served as IBM’s chief marketing officer and chief communications officer for IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, leading all marketing and communications strategies for both business areas.

Prior to IBM, Michael was the chief marketing officer and chief communications officer at Flex. While at Flex, he led the successful rebranding and strategic repositioning of the company beyond an electronics manufacturing services provider to a “sketch-to-scale” supply chain solutions company, operating across 12 different industries, with 200,000 employees around the world.

Prior to Flex, Michael was the executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Fusion.io, where he helped transform its brand positioning and product alignment prior to its acquisition by SanDisk. Before Fusion.io, Michael served as the senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Hewlett-Packard and spent 17 years at the Walt Disney Company, where he rose to president of Marketing and Synergy for Walt Disney Studios and executive vice president of Global Marketing for Disney Parks and Resorts.

Michael received a Bachelor of Science in business communications and speech from Emerson College.

Burton M. Goldfield is a United States-born business executive. He is currently the president and CEO of TriNet; a cloud-based professional employer organization (PEO) for small and medium-sized businesses. He is profiled in San Francisco Business Times and also featured as the “Most Admired CEO” in the same publication. He is a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine and his articles feature issues relevant to SMBs.