- Shopify CTO brings decades of engineering leadership experience to the Company’s growing board of directors
- In addition to Shopify, Leinwand has led engineering teams at some of the world’s most transformative companies, including Slack, ServiceNow and Zynga
NEW YORK, May 9, 2022 / PRNewswire/ – Compass, Inc. (NYSE: COMP), a leading technology-enabled residential real estate brokerage, today announced that Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand was appointed to the Board of Directors of the company. One of the most respected leaders in technology, Leinwand brings decades of engineering experience to the Compass board.
“Allan is widely recognized as an engineering visionary who has applied his experience and passion for technology to reduce the barriers entrepreneurs face as they grow their businesses,” Allan said. Robert Reffkin, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Compass. “One of our core principles at Compass is to‘ maximize your strengths ’and Allan’s strong engineering leadership background will ensure we continue to focus on investing in the technology that empowers Compass agents more time and tools so they can provide great experiences with their clients. ”
Throughout his career, Leinwand has held a range of leadership positions at technology innovation companies. Sa October 2021he joined Shopify from Slack, where he has served as SVP of Engineering ever since December 2018. Prior to Slack, Leinwand was CTO at ServiceNow, an enterprise cloud company where he oversaw all technical aspects and led the company’s long -term technology strategy. Prior to ServiceNow, he was CTO of Infrastructure at Zynga, where he focused on building one of the largest consumer cloud computing environments used to deliver the company’s social games. Earlier in his career, Leinwand was the founding CEO of Vyatta, an open-source networking company, which was later acquired by Brocade. Leinwand currently serves on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd Collegeis a director of Anaplan, and sits on the advisory boards of Nylas and Bulletproof 360.
“Compass is an innovator in the real estate space just as Shopify is for commerce,” Leinwand said. “Both create platforms that make it easy for any type of entrepreneur to start, run, and grow their business.
In less than ten years, Compass has become the largest residential real estate brokerage in the The united state.1 The company is home to more than 26,000 agents who, powered by the Compass platform, cover nearly half of The united state population.
About Compass
Founded in 2012, Compass is the largest residential real estate brokerage in the The united state. The technology-enabled brokerage provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, brokerage services and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the industry of real estate. Compass agents use the platform to grow their business, save time and manage their business more effectively. For more information on how Compass empowers real estate agents, one of the largest groups of small business owners in the country, please visit www.Compass.com.
1 T. Velt, “RealTrends 500: The Rise of Compass,” RealTrendsOnline, HW Media, 3/25/2022, https://www.realtrends.com/realtrends-500-the-rise-of-compass/.
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