[2] TriNet administers payroll and health benefits and advises clients on employment law compliance and risk reduction, acting in some cases as an outsourced human resources department.

[4] Founded in 1988, TriNet offered basic employee benefits, dental coverage, life and disability insurance and employment law guidance.

Babinec led TriNet through several acquisitions of smaller professional employer organizations, including Boston-based HR Logic Holdings,[7] John Parry & Alexander and the Outsource Group of Walnut Creek, Calif.; E3 Group of Dallas; and Boston-based HR Logic Holdings.

[8] The company went through its own rounds of equity financing, including an investment by U.K.-based staffing firm Select Holdings, LLC (later renamed as Vedior).

In 2008, TriNet ranked #3,369 in the Inc. 5000,[31] as well as #13 in the East Bay Business Times list of fastest growing, privately held companies.

[36] In the same year, TriNet is named one of the Bay Area's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® by the National Association for Business Resources.