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Global Remote Employment Will Power the Next Era of Work
Talks about Future Of Work, Remote Working and Employees
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Tony Jamous
Chief Executive Officer at Oyster
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Overview
Tony Jamous is the CEO of Oyster, known for his leadership with empathy and mental wellbeing. He is a 2x unicorn founder with successful ventures such as Nexmo (acquired by Vonage) and extensive experience in angel investing and HR tech, making impactful investments in companies like Feather and Iteration X.
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2020 - Current
I’m the CEO and co-founder of Oyster, a unicorn company that empowers companies to hire, pay, and care for team members globally 🌏. We’re on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. 🌎 In the past 2 years we’ve: → Raised $150 M in Series C funding, total raised $230m → Grown the team to over 600 + people across 60 + countries → Grown our payment volume to emerging economies by 86% → Increased compensation and benefits access for workers in emerging countries → Helped over 4000 people get certified on Remote Ready → Achieved B corp status. → Built in public to show how we work remotely Our 3 core values are: - We thrive together - We elevate talent - We build trust 👋Reach out if you want to learn more about what we do.
Oyster is a distributed HR platform that offers companies to hire, pay, and care for teammates.
Raised $288,200,000.00 from ServiceNow Ventures, Silver Lake Waterman, Georgian, Endeavor Catalyst, Stripes, G2 Venture Partners and Emergence.
President
2016 - 2018
Cofounder and CEO
2010 - 2016
Nexmo is a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) and is now part of Vonage. Till May 2018: $750M in value created 25 Billion API Calls 500K registered developers 459 Staff
Business Development
2008 - 2008
Sales
2004 - 2008
Education
MBA
2009 - 2009
Investments
Latest Articles
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Reimagining the Remote Board Meeting
Talks about remote board meetings, asynchronous work and Oyster