Management
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Tom Glassanos
President and CEO
SmartZip Board Member
Tom is president and CEO of SmartZip, Inc.; he brings over twenty years of executive experience building software and Internet application companies. Most recently, Tom was founder and CEO of Xign Corporation where he built the leading global settlement network for business. Under his leadership, Xign processed over $100 billion in electronic commerce for 70,000 businesses in 35 countries. Xign was acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2007.
Prior to Xign, Tom was Executive Vice President and General Manager at PeopleSoft where he drove strategy and development for PeopleSoft Internet applications. In the mid 90’s, Tom built the leading software application business for Internet banking, enabling over 300 U.S. banks to offer retail services to their customers online. Tom served as Vice President of Marketing for two successful ventures from startup through IPO, and spent seven years at Hewlett Packard Company, where he led product strategy for enterprise software.
Tom holds an MBA from Harvard University, a Masters in Engineering from Tufts University, and B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, also from Tufts University.
Avi Gupta, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research & Marketing
Avi heads up real estate market research for SmartScore™ and oversees product strategy and marketing for SmartZip. Avi brings more than 16 years of experience driving strategy and adoption of innovative, user-friendly products.
Prior to SmartZip, Avi served as global marketing director at Mentor Graphics, where he built a multi-million dollar business offering electronic design automation products used by leading chip manufacturers worldwide. He also served as Vice President of Business Development at arcadiaOne, and built the consulting business at Cadence Design Systems. Before Cadence, Avi managed development of automation tools for microprocessor design at Intel Corporation.
Avi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, a Master’s from U.C. Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s from I.I.T. India where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. Avi is also a seasoned real estate investor.
Ashutosh Malaviya, Ph.D.
Chief of Analytics Research
Ashutosh leads SmartZip’s research in real estate analytics. He brings over 12 years of leading-edge technology research and development experience in data mining, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, pattern recognition, and web technologies. He has led global software development teams from Germany, Japan, Ireland, India, Ukraine and Egypt.
Prior to SmartZip, Ashutosh was Chief Technology Officer at Novaguru where he led the development of a collaborative learning social network. Previously, he consulted on web development for eBay, InsideMethods and Saora (Japan), and developed content management systems for Brainflick Presentation software. He is also a seasoned entrepreneur, having co-founded Novaguru, Detigo systems and Yatra Corporation. At Detigo, he developed patented computer vision software which helped clients avoid industrial accidents. As chief scientist at venture-backed Yatra, later acquired by Datalex of Ireland (DLE.I), he developed corporate travel cost optimization software. Before Yatra, Ashutosh worked as a scientist for 8 years at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany.
Ashutosh holds a Masters and PhD from the Technical University of Berlin, and a Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has authored 2 technical books, 4 patents and 25 research papers.
Rajeev Kalavar
Vice President, Engineering and Client Services
Rajeev is responsible for SmartZip's product development, site operations and client services. He brings over 12 years of product development experience in enterprise software and consumer focused Internet applications.
Most recently, Rajeev was director of engineering at The Real Estate eXchange (trexglobal.com), where he was responsible for their flagship property management and rent payment solutions. As a founding team member, he established engineering operations spanning US, Romania and India, and played various leadership roles in product strategy and marketing. Prior to TReXGlobal, he served as senior member of technical staff at Avaya Communications, where he was primarily responsible for the architecture, design and development of Avaya's multi-media contact center products.
Rajeev is currently pursuing his M.B.A from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Ind. Electronics, 1st rank holder) from the University of Pune. He has filed 5 patents (pending) related to agent efficiency, skill-set classification and routing improvements in the Contact Center.
Doug Gribbel
Director, Research & Analysis
Doug is responsible for qualitative market research and analysis, and lends 14 years of expertise in the technology and real estate industries. Most recently, Doug worked as a real estate developer, property manager, and real estate consultant, including three years at Hanley Wood Market Intelligence where he provided custom consulting services to the residential building industry.
Prior to that, Doug spent over eight years with Intel Corporation in a variety of marketing roles in the Mobile Platforms Group, managed product lifecycles with key OEM partners, drove the sales ramp of the Centrino mobile platform, and helped increase channel sales via effective co-marketing programs with key resellers.
Doug holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and a BS in Economics degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
