Cadre, a leading technology-driven real estate investment platform, announced the appointment of software engineering veteran Skand Gupta as Head of Engineering. Gupta will report to and work directly with Founder and CEO Ryan Williams, assuming management of Cadre’s Engineering team and data initiatives as the firm continues its efforts to modernize the commercial real estate investment lifecycle and expand its product to reach an even wider range of individuals and advisors.
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Gupta joins Cadre from Better.com, where he most recently served as Senior Engineering Leader, building out technologies and teams to scale and automate real estate mortgage and loan underwriting. Prior to Better.com, Gupta built systems responsible for compliant storage and retrieval of financial data for Bloomberg and served as Engineering Manager for Dropbox, leading the creation and launch of products such as Previews, Transfer, and Dropbox Showcase. In all, Gupta brings more than 20 years of engineering and leadership experience at leading fintech companies.
Gupta will lead and continue to build out Cadre’s technology team known for its industry-leading platform designed to help make private real estate more accessible, transparent and affordable to a greater number of individual investors. Cadre’s innovative technology has created efficiencies that lower the costs of investing into premium real estate investment opportunities and improve liquidity through its groundbreaking secondary marketplace. As Head of Engineering, Skand will expand the platform’s capabilities for greater scale than ever before, tailoring it to the emerging needs of modern investors and advisors, and ensuring that more individuals and operators can participate in Cadre’s marketplace.
“I am thrilled to welcome Skand to Cadre as we continue to add top talent to our leadership team. Skand is joining Cadre following our strongest quarter to date since I founded the company, and at a time in which our platform is reaching more individuals and operators than ever before,” said Williams. “As we launch new investment products to expand our industry-leading capabilities and target reaching an even wider range of individuals, Skand’s tech-forward leadership will be an incredible asset to our team and will help propel our next phase of growth.”
“Cadre has an extremely talented technology team that has created a novel marketplace for CRE and I couldn’t be more excited about joining them as the company quickly scales with their contributions. Alongside Ryan and our team, I look forward to accelerating on our mission to expand access to quality commercial real estate investments for more individuals than ever before through technology that streamlines the end-to-end investing experience,” added Gupta.