Management Team

  • Auren Hoffman
    CEO
    Auren was formerly Chair of Stonebrick Group and the Connector Group. He's a non-employee cofounder of BrightRoll. Previously, he founded and sold three Internet companies: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold in 1997), and GetRelevant (sold in 2002). Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
  • Phil Davis
    General Manager of Marketing Services
    Prior to joining Rapleaf, Phil was the President of ConsumerBase, Senior Vice President of Equifax and COO of Daleen Technologies. Phil holds a B.S. in Human Development in Organizations from Vanderbilt University.
  • Joel Jewitt
    VP of Business Development
    Joel was previously co-founder and VP Business Development of Motorola/Good Technology Inc, and prior to that was EVP of Encompass. Joel was also co-founder of Adaptive Media and was the fourth member in the founding team of Palm Computing. Joel holds a B.A. in Physics from Amherst College and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • Jeremy Lizt
    VP of Engineering
    Prior to joining Rapleaf, Jeremy was a senior development manager in Oracle's server division. Jeremy was also a founding member of Oracle's application server team. Jeremy holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and a post graduate degree in Jewish studies from Oxford University.
  • Adithya Raghunathan
    Head of Product Management
    Before Rapleaf, Adithya was Director of Product Management in Symantec's storage management division. Adithya previously worked in a variety of technology roles in financial services, education, security and international development. Adithya holds a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and a joint masters in business and public policy from Harvard University.

  • Founders
  • Dayo Esho, Software Engineer
  • Auren Hoffman, CEO
  • Jeremy Lizt, VP Engineering
  • Manish Shah, Software Engineer
  • Vivek Sodera, Business Operations