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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Residential space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Kulveer Taggar
Chief Executive Officer of Zeus Living
An Oxford-educated entrepreneur, Taggar was the founder and CEO of Y Combinator startup Auctomatic before selling it to Current Live Media.
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About Zeus Living: Zeus Living provides furnished housing intended for business and personal travel.
Parth Bhakta
Co-founder and CEO of Vivian Health
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About Castle Global, Vivian Health: Empowering healthcare professionals find their perfect job, faster and easier than ever before.
Ale Resnik
Co-founder and CEO of Belong
Alejandro “Ale” Resnik (born April 18, 1982) is an Argentine-born American serial entrepreneur. Ale is the Founder and CEO of Belong, a US plattform for long term home renting. Resnik’s third company was Beepi, a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling automobiles. In 2017, Ale joined venutre capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as Founder in Residence. In 2014, Resnik was named a Top Innovator Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. Early life and education Resnik was raised in Argentina and at the age of 18, he founded his first start up, a domain registrar named LatinDominios.com.] In 2000, he received an undergraduate degree in Information Technology from ORT in Argentina and in 2006, a MSc in industrial engineering from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires).In 2011, Resnik entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 2013, graduated with an MBA from the Sloan School of Management in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Track. Global Vitamins In 2005, Resnik founded Global Vitamins, LTD, and became its CEO. The subscription-based e-commerce company, which sold vitamins and nutritional supplements directly to consumers, marketed to clients in Latin America and Europe. Resnik sold the 75-person company in 2011 to attend MIT. Beepi He co-founded Beepi, a “peer-to-peer” online used-car marketplace that failed to raise additional funding to operate and was sold off in January 2017. After exiting Beepi, Ale joined Venture Capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, based in Menlo Park, as Founder in Residence. Awards Top Innovator Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2014. A jury member for the MIT Technology Review prize said the Resnik had created “an innovative model and disruptor for the American market” and added that the Beepi project has contributed “innovation in the field of electronic commerce.” In 2015, Resnik was named by Pulse to the LinkedIn “New Wave List” of the top 10 professionals under 35 influencing “what and how we drive.” Ale was awarded an academic merit scholarship at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology and the MIT Legatum Fellowship for Development and Entrepreneurship;
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About Andreessen Horowitz, Belong: Belong is a residential network that vertically integrates all aspects of the home rental and home improvement process.
Aaron King
Founder and CEO of Snapdocs
Aaron King is a Founder and CEO of Snapdocs.
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About Snapdocs: Snapdocs is a mortgage technology company that helps real estate participants closing work together through integration and automation.
Oleksiy Lubinsky
CEO of Rentberry
After graduating from UC Berkeley and having started a great resume in the Bay Area, I decided to expand my personal and professionals horizons by moving to Europe. During the next 7 years I worked as an investment banker and business development director for a wide array of European companies and visited more than 40 countries around the world on business and leisure gaining a wealth of global knowledge.
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About Rentberry: Rentberry is a rental service platform that provides rental and price negotiation services to tenants and landlords.
Justin Fichelson
Co-Founder & CEO of Avenue 8
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About Avenue 8: Avenue 8 is a digital and mobile-first residential real estate brokerage developed for modern real estate agents.
Doug Brien
CEO & Co-Founder of Mynd
Doug Brien, former Super Bowl winning NFL placekicker, doesn’t take anyone or anything for granted. The same consistency, resiliency, humility and positivity that propelled his NFL career has helped shape his mission and values as a CEO and co-founder. Doug founded Mynd Management in 2016 with his close friend, Colin Wiel after achieving great success together at Starwood Waypoint (NYSE: SWAY), formerly Waypoint Homes. The Waypoint Homes team managed over 17,000 single family homes across the nation, transforming the single-family rental home investment industry. Both Doug and Colin were awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Goldman Sachs Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs as a result. As rental property owners and investors himself, Doug saw an opportunity to create a property management company that delivered the great service he had always wanted but could not find. With invaluable learning and similar strategy from Waypoint, Doug and Colin began Mynd in 2016. Geographically, Mynd Management is just outside Silicon Valley, in Oakland, California. In the marketplace, Mynd sits right at the intersection of cutting-edge tech and rental property management, a space that was untapped and ripe for innovation. A place where Doug feels right at home. Doug has been listed as one of the Goldman Sachs Top 100 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs and earned the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He is the former CEO of Starwood Waypoint (NYSE: SWAY), received a BA from Univ. of California and an MBA from Tulane. He skis 32 days a year, mountain bikes 2x a week, meditates often and is a doting father to two daughters and a son.
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About Mynd: Mynd is a customer-first, tech-enabled property management firm focused on rental sector.
Michael Cung
CEO & Founder of King Solarman
Michael Cung was a 6-year real estate banker in Deutsche Bank and a top originator and a member of President Club for a few years in real estate lending. He worked with real estate developers, real estate investors, mortgage brokers and mortgage bankers throughout New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. He also worked as an investment accountant in JP Morgan Asset Managment and Citibank headquarters. He graduated from Baruch College in New York City with a BBA in Accounting.
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About King Solarman: King Solarman provides residential and commercial solar panels, solar inverters and solar finance.
Ross Edwards
Chief Executive Officer of Build Group
Ross Edwards is a CEO of Build Group, Inc
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About Build Group, Pacific Structures: Build Group is a general contracting firm specializes in commercial office space, hospitality, public works, and residential, mixed use.
Ryan Van Wert
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Vynca
Ryan is a prolific healthcare innovator and dynamic speaker with a passion for improving patient care through technology. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University, and the Assistant Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. His academic focus is in technology assessment and in teaching biomedical innovation. He is a cofounder and Chief Medical Officer of Vynca, Inc., a Silicon Valley healthcare technology company whose mission is to improve care delivery at the end of life, and co-founder at AWAIR, Inc., a medical device company developing technology to reduce complications in the intensive care unit, which was licensed to Cook Medical Technologies in 2015. He serves as an advisor to young technology companies, including through the Biomedical Zone, a hospital-based incubator in Toronto, Canada.
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About Vynca: Vynca ensures that personalized end-of-life care is available to every individual, every time.
Jack Forbes
CEO and Co-founder of Kopa
Entrepreneur, nerd, and athletic enthusiast! I am on a mission to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live more fulfilled lives with Kopa. My fun fact: I’ve driven across America 11 times for internships on the West Coast while going to school out East 😀
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About Kopa: Find furnished rentals and compatible housemates for 1-12+ months
