Leadership Team

Founded more than 20 years ago, TempWorks Software® has grown to more than 170 employees and has served more than 500 staffing clients nationwide. Our leadership team provides the technology, support and strategic direction that our clients need for sustainable growth and to maintain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our team continues to focus on building trust-based relationships with our clients and partners while providing top tier software, payroll, and funding services.

David Dourgarian, Chief Executive Officer

Casey Kraus, President

David Dourgarian, Chief Executive Officer

As CEO of TempWorks Software, David’s passion has been to partner with staffing agencies and help them mobilize to take their businesses to the next level. Every day, David and a team of more than 170 employees strive to transform their clients’ businesses through technological innovations and staffing industry knowledge. Over the last few years, he has strategically focused the product development roadmap to support the technology needs of large staffing agencies and to optimize staffing software tools for a mobile workforce.

Casey Kraus, President

In 2018, Casey Kraus was named President of TempWorks Software. Since 2007, Kraus has managed the sales and new business development teams at TempWorks Software, focusing on enhancing customer service and client experience with both prospects and current clients. At TempWorks and throughout the staffing industry, Kraus has been a strategic leader in developing growth solutions and delivering process-oriented leadership.

Mari Kautzman-Knoll, Chief Operating Officer

Kevin Prow, Chief Information Officer

Mari Kautzman-Knoll, Chief Operating Officer

As COO, Mari’s superb organizational and communications skills help our development, implementation, and payroll teams execute at peak performance. With dual degrees in math and accounting, Mari streamlined our tax and payroll processes before leading the highly successful conversion of a public bank’s payroll funding division to TempWorks.

Kevin Prow, Chief Information Officer

Kevin joined the TempWorks team in 2004 as a support technician where he served until his deployment to Iraq and Kuwait in 2006. He re-joined TempWorks the following year as a product developer. Kevin played an instrumental role in implementing the company’s payroll funding division in 2009. He led the support team as Director of Support Services through 2016. Bringing his experience to our development team, Kevin led all development activities from 2016 through 2018. Now as the Chief Information Officer, Kevin leads the Information Technology team on matters of strategic planning, infrastructure, and information security.

Alisha Santoorjian Thunstrum, VP of Client Services

Tanya Wilkerson, VP of Implementation

Alisha Santoorjian Thunstrum, VP of Client Services

Alisha Santoorjian Thunstrom is the Vice President of Client Services at TempWorks Software. Support has been Alisha’s specialty since her first day at TempWorks Software in 2011. She’s steadily climbed from support analyst to support supervisor, manager, director and now vice president where she oversees support services and account management. Alisha understands that the long-term success of clients depends on the investment of time and support to build true partnerships. She also leads the year-end team and manages sales and payroll tax changes throughout the year.

Tanya Wilkerson, VP of Implementation

Tanya Wilkerson joined the TempWorks Software team in 2018 with more than 16 years of experience in the staffing industry. Tanya brings considerable experience leading project management teams where contract spend exceeded $50 million. She started at TempWorks as a Project Manager and quickly worked her way up to Implementation Manager before stepping into the role of Vice President of Implementation. Tanya understands how critical it is to get an organization live on the software as quickly and smoothly as possible. Her staffing industry experience and ability to relate to client operations and processes allow her to help clients reach their goals.

Taylor Lukin, VP of Employee Development

Taylor Lukin, VP of Employee Development

Taylor Lukin has more than 11 years of experience in project management and management roles primarily in the software industry. Her management experience includes more than five years at TempWorks Software in various roles from 2011 to 2016, including Director of Project Management and Director of Implementation Services. In 2018, Taylor rejoined the TempWorks team as the Vice President of Employee Development. In this role, Taylor works closely with each department to ensure that new employees receive the necessary onboarding and training tools to succeed and current employees have access to appropriate resources and professional development opportunities.

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