Human Cloud

Human Cloud

AI driven. Human led.

Welcome to the autonomous age - a world where AI, borderless networks, and flexible talent replace the drudgery of corporate drones. NASA, Microsoft, and yes, beloved beer brand Carlsberg get it. So will you. Each week, Tony Buffum and Matthew Mottola, leading executives and entrepreneurs behind Human Cloud, will introduce you to the exact technology, tools, and talent solutions you need to navigate this new age. Skip the fluff. Get straight to work transforming your talent strategy through today’s leading technology.

Benjemen Elengovan, Founder at MyGigsters, Using AI to Build the Financial Infrastructure for the Flexible Workforce
Human CloudApril 28, 202600:44:43

Benjemen Elengovan, Founder at MyGigsters, Using AI to Build the Financial Infrastructure for the Flexible Workforce

Every founder talks about doing more with less. Benjemen Elengovan is actually doing it. He built an agentic workforce of AI agents that handle his sales prospecting, operations, and engineering acceleration, and the results are rewriting the math on what a lean team can accomplish. MyGigsters is a ...

Michelle Allbon, Co-founder & CEO at Fractional Directory, The True Cloud Transformation Hiding in Plain Sight
Human CloudApril 21, 202600:47:24

Michelle Allbon, Co-founder & CEO at Fractional Directory, The True Cloud Transformation Hiding in Plain Sight

The APAC fractional talent market is growing 15x and nobody is talking about it. Michelle Allbon moved from Silicon Valley to New Zealand and discovered a $100M market opportunity hiding across four cities. She built Fractional Directory to start mapping it. What makes this story different is scale....

Yurii Lazaruk, Out With Talent, In With Getting Sh** Done (And Relationships)
Human CloudApril 14, 202600:39:46

Yurii Lazaruk, Out With Talent, In With Getting Sh** Done (And Relationships)

Every company says they want to move faster. Fewer say they want to change how they hire to get there. That gap between knowing the flexible workforce works and actually adopting it is where most of the industry is stuck. The pitch is obvious. The execution is not. Yurii Lazaruk has spent the last f...

Joao Lucio, Founder at beecrowd, The New Rules of Tech Talent, LATAM Nearshore and Delivery
Human CloudApril 09, 202600:47:47

Joao Lucio, Founder at beecrowd, The New Rules of Tech Talent, LATAM Nearshore and Delivery

In this episode, Matthew Mottola sits down with João Lucio, a veteran of global system integrators who spent more than 30 years inside firms like Accenture and Cognizant — including leading Cognizant's Latin American operation of 5,000+ people across seven countries. After decades on the inside, Joã...

Yuri Kruman, HR Leader Turned AI Builder, The 56% AI Wage Gap Nobody Is Talking About
Human CloudApril 07, 202600:47:10

Yuri Kruman, HR Leader Turned AI Builder, The 56% AI Wage Gap Nobody Is Talking About

The AI wage gap is already 56 percent. That number comes from PWC, which analyzed six billion job postings and found that workers who can build with AI earn more than half again what their peers make. And in HR, a function that has historically been last to adopt new technology and first to feel the...

Kim Lee, Founder of Lotic Systems, Built an AI Leadership Coach — Without Writing a Line of Code
Human CloudMarch 31, 202600:40:58

Kim Lee, Founder of Lotic Systems, Built an AI Leadership Coach — Without Writing a Line of Code

Most managers get promoted because they were great individual contributors — not because anyone taught them how to lead. The result: a management gap that drives turnover, kills team morale, and costs organizations millions. And the standard fix — a one-day leadership workshop — fades from memory be...

Maggie Ruvoldt, Fractional CHRO & HR Advisor, Why Fractional Leadership Is About Impact Not Hours
Human CloudMarch 24, 202600:40:11

Maggie Ruvoldt, Fractional CHRO & HR Advisor, Why Fractional Leadership Is About Impact Not Hours

The fractional executive market is exploding, but most companies are still thinking about it wrong. They ask how many hours they need. They should be asking what impact they need. Maggie Ruvoldt spent over a decade scaling an EdTech company from 100 people to 5,000, from $30 million to $1 billion in...

Jeff Nugent, Founder at Independently, The 900-Pound Gorilla Blocking the Future of Work
Human CloudMarch 19, 202600:45:04

Jeff Nugent, Founder at Independently, The 900-Pound Gorilla Blocking the Future of Work

Independent contractor compliance is the 900-pound gorilla blocking enterprises from scaling flexible talent. The platforms exist. The talent exists. But most companies get 10 freelancers in the door and never get to 1,000 because compliance shuts it down. Jeff Nugent has watched this play out acros...

Paul Vallee, Founder & CEO of Tehama, The Trust Architecture That Unlocks the Freelance Workforce
Human CloudMarch 17, 202600:41:27

Paul Vallee, Founder & CEO of Tehama, The Trust Architecture That Unlocks the Freelance Workforce

p>Security isn't just an IT problem — it's the single biggest demand limiter for freelance talent in the enterprise. Every time a company considers engaging a contractor, the first question isn't cost or quality. It's: can we trust them with our data? Paul Vallee has spent 25+ years building the inf...

JJ Lammers, Founder of AllGigs, The Great Aggregation: Why Now, and How the Jobs of the Future Will Be Aggregated
Human CloudMarch 10, 202600:33:30

JJ Lammers, Founder of AllGigs, The Great Aggregation: Why Now, and How the Jobs of the Future Will Be Aggregated

Work is fragmenting faster than anyone can track. While Human Cloud aggregates the solutions, JJ aggregates the work. Every role is niching down. Every platform covers a fraction of the market. And on both sides — freelancers looking for gigs and companies looking for talent solutions — nobody can s...