Leadership

Leadership

Management Team

David Vivero

Chief Executive Officer

David sets the company’s strategy, recruits the world-class team of engineers and businesspeople who produce and market the RentJuice service, and monitors and responds to all customer feedback as we continue to improve our offering for the rental community. In this capacity, David relies heavily on his career experience in Internet technology and his rental property management DNA, having grown up managing several apartment buildings on Miami Beach.

Prior to founding RentJuice, David evaluated consumer Internet investments on behalf of Mayfield Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He was also a Management Associate at IDG Communications, the publishers behind 300 trade magazines and 400 web sites, reporting to the global CEO and VP of Interactive on new product development and business development projects.

David holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in Economics from Harvard College. He rents an apartment in the Russian Hill area of San Francisco.

Kunal Shah

Chief Technology Officer

Kunal leads our software engineering team as CTO. Prior to RentJuice, Kunal was CTO at Connected Ventures, the New York-based media company that launched several renowned Internet brands, including media destination CollegeHumor.com, t-shirt e-commerce site BustedTees, and personal video sharing site Vimeo. In addition to developing the company’s custom software frameworks, he managed 13 engineers and scaled the infrastructure to eventually serve 10 million monthly unique visitors and 100 million monthly page views. Connected Ventures was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in late 2006.

Kunal has a BS in IT/new media from Rochester Institute of Technology, and lives in a rental apartment in San Francisco’s Nob Hill.

Matt Gidney

Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Matt leads the company’s sales and marketing efforts, including our public relations and relationships with key distribution partners. Before RentJuice, Matt was the lead Product Marketer for Salesforce.com’s flagship Sales Cloud. In that role, he focused on marketing strategy, content creation, and sales team training. In 1997, Matt founded the interactive advertising division of Renegade Marketing Group, a subsidiary of Dentsu.  In 1999, he moved to Ogilvy & Mather and was one of the first internet advertising executives assigned to the IBM account, before shifting roles and joining the marketing strategy group.  Matt spent seven years as a marketing strategist, working on a variety of accounts such as New York Times Digital, American Express and IBM.

Matt is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School, and lives in a rental apartment in San Francisco’s Russian Hill.

Luis Gomez

Lead Interface Developer

With oversight over all customer-facing interfaces, Luis comes from an extensive background in front-end development in both the online and mobile industries. Trained in 3D computer animation and design, Luis moved into web development over ten years ago and often serves as liaison between technical and marketing teams. He lived in Caracas, South Beach (Florida) and Milan, Italy before moving to San Francisco about two years ago where he was involved in a few Silicon Valley startups, serving in different roles from CTO to designer, front-end developer and systems architect. Before RentJuice, Luis worked for Buongiorno Vitaminic, S.p.A., the largest global distributor of mobile content. Before Buongiorno, he worked for IFX Corporation/Tutopia.com which, at the time, was the largest free ISP serving Latin America.

Board of Directors

David Vivero

Chief Executive Officer

John Zdanowski

Board Member

John Zdanowski was most recently CFO of Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, Prior to Linden Lab, he was CFO at HouseValues, a leading marketing partner for real estate and mortgage professionals. He arranged the company’s first institutional financing round of $15 million and its $94 million IPO in 2004. Prior to that, Zdanowski co-founded Affinity Internet, Inc. raising more than $60 million to build a highly profitable Web hosting company serving more than 200,000 small- and medium-sized businesses. He has also worked as an investment banker and a management consultant and began his career as an engineer in GE’s highly-acclaimed management training program

Zdanowski holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University.

Investors

Tim Draper

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of Glam, Kyte.tv, Meebo, ShareThis, SocialText, Wigix and DFJ Plug ‘N Play companies. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others.

As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Tim is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances. He was #52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker for 2008. He was awarded the Commonwealth Club’s Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. His blog is featured at www.theriskmaster.com. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Colin M. Evans

Sandwith Ventures

Colin M. Evans is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sandwith Ventures LLC, a San Francisco and Philadelphia based investment firm focusing on angel and early stage investments founded in January, 2007.

Previous to launching Sandwith Ventures, Colin was a Co-Founder, member of the Executive Team and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at StubHub.com, a successful online ticket exchange founded in 2000 and sold to eBay in early 2007. Colin oversaw four main functions while at StubHub including all sports and music sponsorships, business development partnerships, corporate sales and the LargeSeller program, which aggregated and serviced all the inventory providers on StubHub. Colin sits on the Board of CommunityLend, Bonobos and TicketLeap.

Colin is on the Advisory Boards of a number of internet companies concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Philadelphia Regions.