PeoplePerHour POLITICAL

Corporate Communications & Public Stance

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate materials of an official PeoplePerHour statement addressing Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the October 2023 conflict, the ICJ advisory opinion, the ICC arrest warrants, or related policy issues.^{1, 2}

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate materials of statements on Ukraine, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, or another geopolitical or social crisis that would enable a documented comparison of public posture.^{1, 2}

• A 2015 release described PeoplePerHour as a global freelance marketplace using Payoneer payout capability in more than 200 countries and territories, without identifying Israel, Palestine, settlements, or a regional partnership.³

• The 2015 Payoneer release is historical and does not establish that the payment arrangement remains active.³

• A PeoplePerHour URL containing “Virtual Assistant Israel” appeared as a keyword job-results page in an indexed capture reviewed on 2 October 2026; its visible results were generic remote jobs rather than an Israel-specific policy, campaign, or dedicated corporate statement. Direct access on that date produced a robot-verification page. The URL alone does not establish a deliberate political stance or a current Israel-focused programme.⁴

• No target-specific conduct was identified in the bounded review after July 2024 or November 2024 that would establish continued or escalated PeoplePerHour political, military, settlement, or state-support activity.^{1, 2, 5}

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

• A specified local full-text scan found no PeoplePerHour mention in reviewed OHCHR settlement-business database updates, UN report A/HRC/59/23, or the enumerated NGO reports.^{5, 6}

• That document-scoped result does not establish absence from all external databases, civil-society research, real-world operations, platform users, or transactions.^{5, 6}

• A European Training Foundation regional study, using platform websites reviewed by PPMI in March 2023, listed approximately 202 registered PeoplePerHour worker accounts in Israel and 422 in Palestine.⁷

• The ETF figures are registered accounts rather than evidence of corporate offices, active accounts, physical locations of account holders, contracts, client activity, revenue, or settlement activity.⁷

• The ETF report states that its data cover January–September 2023 and therefore do not reflect the heightened conflict period after October 2023; whether the recorded account presence remains current is unknown.⁷

• A May 2026 7amleh report grouped “PeoplePerHour / Guru” together, characterized access in Gaza and the West Bank as available with “Payout: Difficult,” and characterized access for Israeli citizens as “Full access.”⁸

• The 7amleh characterization relies on the ETF study and is not a PeoplePerHour-specific published policy or independently verified evidence that PeoplePerHour caused, maintained, or could remedy the reported payout conditions.^{8, 7}

• No public evidence identified of PeoplePerHour-operated offices, service contracts, resellers, subsidiaries, or settlement-specific activity in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or Gaza.^{1, 2, 3}

• The company’s team page identifies staff locations in London, Athens, Rajahmundry, Manila, and Hyderabad, rather than an Israeli or Palestinian office; this corporate location claim does not establish separately incorporated entities.²

• No public evidence identified of legal, regulatory, UN, OECD National Contact Point, boycott, divestment, sanctions, or similar proceedings specifically concerning PeoplePerHour’s Israel/Palestine operations.^{5, 6}

• No primary PeoplePerHour source was located in the reviewed material explaining country eligibility, verification, or payout availability for Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, or settlements.^{1, 2}

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of PeoplePerHour HR action, litigation, union dispute, or employee-speech enforcement concerning Israel/Palestine.^{1, 2}

• No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of independent research, regulatory inquiry, reported platform-moderation action, or platform-policy action concerning Palestinian, Gaza-related, or Israeli-conflict content.^{1, 2}

• No public evidence identified of retail, product-origin, settlement-labelling, regional sourcing, or regional supply-chain practices.^{1, 2, 3}

• Available corporate material characterizes PeoplePerHour as a digital freelance marketplace rather than a goods retailer.^{3, 9}

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

• No public evidence identified that PeoplePerHour uses military, defence-sector, state-security, Israeli-state, or settlement heritage in its branding or public relations.^{1, 2, 9}

• No public evidence identified of PeoplePerHour receiving state honours, maintaining government or academic partnerships, hosting officials, or sponsoring Israel-state cultural or public-relations initiatives.^{1, 2, 9}

• PeoplePerHour’s public description presents the service as a marketplace connecting clients and freelance talent, and states that it was founded in 2007.⁹

• The corporate page’s statement that the business was “founder owned and led” is undated and should not be treated as a current ownership disclosure after the recorded November 2025 control transition.^{9, 10}

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

• No public evidence identified in the targeted review of PeoplePerHour corporate lobbying, PAC activity, anti-BDS advocacy, Israel/Palestine-policy pressure-group roles, or related political-spending disclosures.^{1, 2, 11}

• No public evidence identified of PeoplePerHour financial support for the IDF, FIDF, JNF/KKL, settlement organizations, reservist funds, or military-welfare bodies.^{1, 2, 5}

• No public evidence identified of corporate crisis logistics, free services, infrastructure, payment support, or other assets directed to Israeli state, military, or state-aligned NGOs during the conflict.^{1, 2, 3, 5}

• No public evidence identified of a public tender, contract, reseller arrangement, or platform-policy record connecting PeoplePerHour to Israel/Palestine-specific state or military activity.^{1, 2, 5}

• Companies House records one historic Barclays Bank PLC fixed charge, created in October 2019 and satisfied in full on 15 November 2023; it predates the 2025 control transition and does not identify financing or terms for that transaction.¹²

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

• PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD, company number 06369697, is an active English private limited company incorporated on 12 September 2007, with registered office at Riverbank House, c/o Fieldfisher LLP, 2 Swan Lane, London EC4R 3TT.¹³

• The company manual identifies PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD as the platform entity and gives the same registered-office address.¹⁴

• Companies House records the company’s SIC classification as 82990, “Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified.”¹³

• The company’s latest recorded accounts were made up to 31 December 2025, and its latest confirmation statement is dated 16 June 2026.^{13, 15}

• PPH UK ACQUISITION LTD became PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD’s sole active recorded person with significant control on 12 November 2025, with at least 75% of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors.¹⁰

• PPH UK ACQUISITION LTD is an active English private limited company incorporated on 29 September 2025, with the same Fieldfisher registered-office address and registered SIC classification 62090, “Other information technology service activities.”¹⁶

• Companies House identifies Taso Du Val as PPH UK ACQUISITION LTD’s sole active person with significant control, notified on 29 September 2025, with at least 75% of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors. The filings reviewed do not disclose transaction financing or establish Toptal LLC as that UK company’s legal shareholder.^{17, 10, 16}

• Talentdesk Holdings Limited was PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD’s PSC from 19 October 2020 until 12 November 2025, and that relationship is recorded as discontinued.¹⁰

• Thrasos Thrasyvoulou was recorded as a PeoplePerHour PSC from 6 April 2016 until 19 October 2020, with more than 25% and not more than 50% of shares and voting rights; that relationship is discontinued.¹⁰

• Thrasos Thrasyvoulou remains Talentdesk Holdings Limited’s sole active recorded PSC, with more than 25% and not more than 50% of shares and voting rights, but that relationship does not establish present beneficial control of PeoplePerHour after the November 2025 transition.^{18, 10}

• TALENTDESK LIMITED is active, was incorporated on 13 May 2017, and used the name PPH ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS LIMITED from 13 May 2017 until 23 March 2022.¹⁹

• Talentdesk Holdings Limited is TALENTDESK LIMITED’s active PSC, notified on 26 February 2025, with at least 75% of shares and voting rights and director-appointment/removal rights; this supports a historic relationship but does not establish that TALENTDESK LIMITED is currently a PeoplePerHour subsidiary after the November 2025 transition.²⁰

• No public evidence identified of a state-held interest, golden share, charter provision, or founding mission tying PeoplePerHour to advancing Israeli state geopolitical goals or infrastructure.^{1, 2, 13}

• The reviewed material does not establish a current subsidiary, overseas-branch, franchise, or sibling-entity perimeter for PeoplePerHour, and staff-location claims alone do not establish separately incorporated entities.^{2, 19, 20}

Executive & Leadership Footprint

• Companies House lists Carlos Aguirre and Taso Du Val as PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD’s only active directors, both appointed on 12 November 2025.²¹

• The register identifies Aguirre and Du Val as American nationals resident in the United States; their identities were verified by an authorised corporate service provider in July and August 2026, respectively.²¹

• The Companies House filing history records the appointments of Aguirre and Du Val, the termination of Xenios Thrasyvoulou’s directorship, the cessation of Talentdesk Holdings Limited as PSC, and notification of PPH UK ACQUISITION LTD as PSC, all effective 12 November 2025.¹⁵

• A replacement filing for Du Val’s appointment was registered on 17 November 2025 because the original contained an error.¹⁵

• Neither a current CEO nor chair is identified by the reviewed Companies House records or PeoplePerHour corporate materials.^{2, 21}

• PeoplePerHour identifies Xenios Thrasyvoulou as its original founder and Simos Kitiris as co-founder.²

• Companies House records Thrasyvoulou as a director from 20 September 2007 until 12 November 2025 and Kitiris as a director from 20 September 2007 until 6 June 2013.²¹

• A Companies House appointments record does not by itself establish Thrasyvoulou’s current share ownership or control.²²

• The 2015 Payoneer release identified Thrasyvoulou as PeoplePerHour’s founder and CEO at that time, but it does not establish current CEO status.³

• Xenios Thrasyvoulou remains an active Talentdesk director, and Stefani Thrasyvoulou became a Talentdesk director on 23 April 2025; these roles do not establish current control of PeoplePerHour.^{23, 10}

• Taso Du Val is also described in a 31 July 2025 Delaware Superior Court opinion as Toptal LLC’s sole member and founder; the opinion does not identify Toptal as PeoplePerHour’s parent, affiliate, funder, or owner.²⁴

• Toptal’s current leadership page identifies Du Val as its chief executive officer and Carlos Aguirre as its chief financial officer. Toptal’s TopAccess terms name PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD as a participating service offering priority applicant screening and proposal credits. Together with the UK filings, these establish a present personnel and commercial connection; they do not by themselves show that Toptal LLC directly owns PEOPLE PER HOUR LTD or that either company adopted the other’s political positions.^{25, 26, 10, 17}

• In a 19 March 2017 interview during his first reported visit to Israel, Du Val publicly presented Israel as a commercial market for Toptal and described supplying talent there. The article’s introductory shorthand refers to approximately 400 companies, but its detailed account describes approximately 400 Israeli clients as a mixed population of companies seeking talent and Israeli skilled workers recruited for other Toptal customers; it therefore does not establish 400 paying Israeli corporate customers. The interview concerns Toptal rather than PeoplePerHour and contains no explicit position on Israel/Palestine, military support, settlements, or the conflict. It predates PPH UK Acquisition Ltd’s control of PeoplePerHour by more than eight years, and no public evidence identified in this bounded review shows repeated or current Israel-market communication by Du Val after that control change or adoption of the 2017 interview by PeoplePerHour.^{27, 10, 17}

• No public evidence identified in the targeted review of Thrasyvoulou’s or other identified PeoplePerHour leadership’s Israel/Palestine statements, donations to military- or settlement-linked organizations, Israeli defence or cyber investments, or relevant advocacy-board roles.^{2, 22, 11}

• No principal-linked foundation was identified in the bounded review; consequently, no IRS Form 990 or 990-PF grant schedule was retrieved or assessed, and no principal-level absence finding is made regarding charitable grants.¹¹

• The reviewed Toptal leadership and TopAccess pages establish the relevant principal and commercial link but make no Israel/Palestine advocacy or donation claim. This bounded review does not resolve all personal political spending, philanthropy, lobbying, or statements by Du Val and Aguirre; no positive Political attribution is made from their Toptal roles or from Toptal’s historical Israeli client trade alone.^{25, 26, 27}

• The November 2025 ownership and directorship transition occurred after July and November 2024, but no evidence located connects that transition to Israel/Palestine-related conduct, escalation, a settlement nexus, or state or military financing.^{10, 21, 15}