# Tim Chatfield

> Tim Chatfield is the Sydney-born co-founder and former CEO of Jitjatjo, a temporary staffing marketplace launched in New York in 2016. His career spans recruitment, online video and international business; he joined Wizeline as a New York-based Solutions Partner in 2025. His public work focuses on flexible labor, worker choice and practical applications of technology.

- **Role:** Solutions Partner at Wizeline
- **Organizations:** Wizeline, Jitjatjo, Viocorp International, Amazon Web Services, Avalon Ventures, Randstad
- **From:** Sydney, Australia
- **Education:** Macquarie University - Graduate School of Business, Advanced Certificate; field unspecified, TAFE
- **Known for:** Co-founded Jitjatjo and led it during the development of its hospitality staffing marketplace and enterprise workforce offering., Led Jitjatjo through its 2019 Series A and 2023 Series B announcements., Previously served in international leadership roles at Viocorp and worked on live-streaming production at AWS.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked in supermarket supervision, telecommunications call centers, recruitment and hospitality events in Australia.
- **2000** — Secured a contract to staff the Sydney Olympics ticket hotline, according to his account of his recruitment career.
- **2014** — The Marketing Institute of Singapore listed him as CEO Asia and Global Head of Partnerships at Viocorp International for a talk on online video.
- **2015** — Began developing Jitjatjo; his AWS live-streaming production work overlapped with the startup’s early years.
- **2016** — Moved to New York with his family; Jitjatjo publicly launched there in October.
- **2019** — Jitjatjo announced an $11 million Series A.
- **2023** — Jitjatjo announced a $30 million Series B led by Morningside Technology Ventures.
- **2024** — His recorded professional history dates the end of his Jitjatjo CEO tenure to February 2024.
- **2025** — Joined Wizeline as a Solutions Partner based in New York.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Jitjatjo and led it during the development of its hospitality staffing marketplace and enterprise workforce offering.
- Led Jitjatjo through its 2019 Series A and 2023 Series B announcements.
- Previously served in international leadership roles at Viocorp and worked on live-streaming production at AWS.

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Announced he had joined Wizeline as a Solutions Partner; Wizeline said he would be based in New York.
- **2025-08** — Wizeline published his AWS conversation recorded at NAB 2025, discussing media profitability, personalization and AI workflows.
- **2025-09** — Wizeline listed him on its IBC 2025 team as Solutions Partner in Client Solutions. Dayforce separately announced that it had acquired JJJ International, which operated Jitjatjo and Network.
- **2026-08** — A federal Fair Labor Standards Act civil action, Violante v. JTEC Holdings Inc. et al., listed Tim Chatfield among defendants. The docket establishes the filing and parties, not liability; the reviewed listing was updated October 9, 2026.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tchatfield

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Last updated: 2026-10-22