Sean Behr

Chief Executive Officer Fountain

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Sean Behr is Chief Executive Officer of Fountain, which makes software for sourcing, hiring, onboarding and scheduling frontline and hourly workers. He took over in 2020 after advising the company, succeeding a co-founder who stayed on the board. He arrived as an operator and founder rather than a recruiting-industry insider. He founded ZIRX, later Stratim, an on-demand valet and later mobility and fleet business that was acquired by KAR, and before that ran global operations at the video ad-tech company Adap.tv through its sale to AOL. At Fountain he has pushed the product beyond its original mobile-first hiring tool into a broader workforce platform with agent-driven AI.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of Fountain since 2020, having first worked with the company as an advisor.
• Led Fountain’s expansion from frontline hiring into onboarding, compliance, scheduling and workforce management, and more recently into Copilot and agent-driven AI.
• Founded ZIRX, an on-demand valet service with complex workforce operations, which relaunched as Stratim, a mobility and fleet platform, in 2017 and was acquired by KAR in 2018.
• Senior vice president of global operations at Adap.tv, helping scale the business through its acquisition by AOL.
• Began his career at Shopping.com, later acquired by eBay, working across HR, sales, product and strategy.

Professional Journey

Behr says he did not come up through technology in the traditional way. He studied history and political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated as the internet was starting to change how people worked. His first job was at Shopping.com, later acquired by eBay, where he moved between HR, sales, product and strategy rather than staying in one function. He credits that with giving him a practical view of how companies run day to day.

He then joined Adap.tv, the video advertising technology company, as senior vice president of global operations, and helped scale it through its acquisition by AOL. After that he founded his own company. Fountain described it in 2020 as ZIRX, an on-demand valet service with complex workforce operations. He describes it today as Stratim, a mobility and fleet platform that KAR eventually acquired. Building something from scratch, he has said, shows you quickly where your assumptions fail, and that experience shaped his approach to leadership more than any other.

Fountain was founded in 2014 to help companies hire frontline workers faster. Behr first worked with it as an advisor and was announced as CEO in September 2020. Co-founder Keith wrote that he would concentrate on strategic bets within the company and stay on as an active board member. Fountain presented Behr’s twenty years of operating experience, across labour marketplaces, SaaS and ad tech, and his experience running a workforce-heavy business as the reasons for the choice.

Under Behr, Fountain has widened its scope. The early product was, in his words, “narrow and intentional”, mobile-first and built for speed. As customers grew, it expanded into onboarding, compliance, scheduling and workforce management, becoming a central hub for how frontline teams operate. More recently it has added Copilot and agent-driven AI to handle routine work. Behr says the company’s philosophy is unchanged: technology should make work easier and more human, not more complex. He points to work with CLEAR, where frontline roles are highly visible and regulated, as a milestone that showed the platform could deliver speed and consistency together.

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

History and Political Science