Meet
Joy Blackwell
Founder & CPO
Bringing 25+ years of director-level payroll, HR, and operations experience at an enterprise level.
Her career includes multiple industries and leading payroll teams of 50+ professionals and supporting 10,000+ employees across multiple states and international, integrating a 2,000-contractor acquisition, and saving a former employer $1.0 million in penalties and fines through proactive tax compliance audits — the kind of enterprise grade experience most business owners and organizations never get access to.
Joy has earned a reputation as the person you call when your payroll is broken, compliance is at risk, or a system migration or acquisition can't afford to go wrong.
Joy founded OpEx to close that gap: bringing enterprise-grade payroll rigor to businesses

