Business View Magazine | March 2021

98 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 BLUE MARBLE GLOBAL PAYROLL Marble COO/CFO, Kimberly Loftis. The following is an edited version of our enlightening conversation. BVM: Let’s start from the beginning… how did Blue Marble come into being? Sarowitz: “I started a company called Paylocity back in 1997. We began as a tiny company and now it’s publicly held. I ran Paylocity for 10 years and in 2007 I hired a President by the name of Steve Beauchamp, who’s now CEO. Within five years, Steve had completely taken over my role and I was made redundant. Which was a good thing. I was 46 years old, and I said to Steve, “I want to do something, I don’t want to retire just yet… what do you think I could do?” We had had a bad experience with international payroll – as a provider – and he said “I think this would be a good idea, we could use a good international payroll provider. “So that’s how I started Blue Marble, early in 2013. The idea was to do payroll everywhere that Paylocity didn’t. While Paylocity is domestic in the United States, Blue Marble is active in over 135 countries now.” BVM: What are the challenges of doing payroll globally as opposed to domestic? Sarowitz: “ It’s a big, ongoing challenge doing international payroll. The financial and operational regulations are different, and there are language barriers. Also, because we’re not doing all the work ourselves, we have to find partners. When working through a third-party provider, you’re only as good as they are, we don’t have full control. That is challenging but it can be an advantage at times – and we have some really good partners.” Loftis: “With COVID-19, we’ve recently had a lot of law changes across various countries and we’ve had to adapt payroll and there is increase in demand because of these new regulations.