Who We Are

Our People

In 2005, Rich and Lloyd gathered together an experienced group of senior managers and board members, with the goal of growing a seed idea into something big. One of their first hires was Spencer, who is now the company's CEO, and they set up shop in downtown Seattle, Washington. Great people tend to attract other passionate people, and a truly outstanding and constantly growing team was assembled, launching Zillow in early 2006. Today, our team includes more than 200 people with offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and Manhattan. Zillow, Inc., now includes one of the largest U.S. real estate sites, Zillow, as well as Zillow Mortgage Marketplace and Zillow Mobile, most popular real estate mobile platform today.

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Management Team

About My House: Spencer Rascoff - Chief Executive Officer
Spencer Rascoff is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Zillow Inc. (NASDAQ: Z). Spencer joined the company as one of its founding employees in 2005 and was promoted to CEO in September 2010. In 1999, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, which was sold to Expedia in 2003. Spencer then became Vice President of Lodging for Expedia, where he ran Expedia's largest and most profitable business line. Before his consumer Web career, Spencer was a private equity investor at TPG Capital, and an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, and Allen & Company.
Spencer graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and he serves on Harvard University's Digital Community & Social Networking Advisory Group. Spencer is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), and the Policy Advisory Board at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Spencer is also on the Boards of Directors of ezRez, a privately-held travel technology company, and Room77, a privately-held online travel company. Follow Spencer on Twitter at @spencerrascoff. View Spencer's profile
About My House: Kristin Acker - Vice President, Product Teams
Kristin is one of the initial members of the Zillow team and is responsible for features related to community, marketing and advertising technology. Kristin has led program management and user interface design teams at several companies including Microsoft, PictureIQ, and Pure Networks and led a program management team at Expedia. Her longest tenure was at Microsoft where she worked from 1989 to 2000, primarily on consumer products such as Microsoft Money, Publisher, Works, and Picture It. Before starting her tech career, she spent a year on the oceans serving on staff for Royal Cruise Line. Kristin earned a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Stanford University. View Kristin's profile
About My House: Rich Barton - Co-Founder and Executive Chairman
Rich is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Zillow. He served as Chief Executive Officer from 2005, when the company was founded, until September 2010 when he passed the baton to Spencer Rascoff. Before co-founding Zillow, Rich founded Expedia.com, the world's largest online travel agency. Expedia was started within Microsoft in 1994, and then spun out in 1999 as a public company; Rich served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director until 2003. Rich also co-founded and serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Glassdoor.com, where you can rate and review your company, see how your salary stacks up, and search for jobs; and TravelPost, a travel review and social networking site. Rich is also a venture partner at Benchmark Capital in Menlo Park, CA and is on the boards of directors at Netflix, Avvo, RealSelf.com, and CommonSenseMedia.Org. Rich earned a bachelor's degree in general engineering: industrial economics from Stanford University. Follow Rich on Twitter @Rich_Barton. View Rich's profile
About My House: David Beitel - Chief Technology Officer
As CTO, David manages the Technical Engineering team and is responsible for all website, mobile and internal product development, corporate IT, and datacenter operations. One of the initial members of the Expedia team, David held many leadership roles in product development during his 10-year tenure there. He began as a software design engineer in 1994, and left Expedia as CTO in 2005. Before his Expedia years, David worked at Microsoft in the handheld computing group. David earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's of engineering degree in computer science from Cornell University. View David's profile
About My House: Amy Bohutinsky - Chief Marketing Officer
As CMO, Amy is responsible for all marketing and communications at Zillow, including brand, public relations, social media marketing, email, and advertising. Prior to joining Zillow in 2005, Amy was Director of Corporate Communications for Hotwire, a discount travel site. She led the PR launch of Hotwire in 2000, and handled communications during and after its $675 million acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2003. Prior to Hotwire, Amy worked for Blanc & Otus, a technology public relations firm in San Francisco. Amy started her career as a broadcast journalist, having been an anchor and field reporter for various CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates in Virginia and Florida. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and mass communications from Washington & Lee University. View Amy's profile
About My House: Chad Cohen - Chief Financial Officer
Chad joined Zillow in 2006 and built all finance, accounting and treasury functions, which he continues to oversee. Prior to joining Zillow, Chad held positions of Assistant Controller and Financial Integrity Manager for Ticketmaster Entertainment. Previously, Chad was Vice President and Assistant Controller for Countrywide Bank. Before Countrywide, Chad served as Supervising Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young, where he worked out of both San Jose, Calif., and Melbourne, Australia offices in their Technology, Communications and Entertainment practice. He started his career as financial planning analyst for Novellus Systems. Chad graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and is licensed as a certified public accountant in the State of California. View Chad's profile
About My House: Lloyd Frink - Co-Founder and Vice Chairman
Lloyd Frink is co-founder and Vice Chairman of Zillow and is responsible for long-term strategic direction. Before co-founding Zillow, Lloyd was at Expedia, where he was Senior Vice President, Supplier Relations, managing the air, hotel, car, destination services, content, merchandising and partner marketing groups. Lloyd joined Expedia in 1995 as one of the original members of the team. From 1988 to 1994, Lloyd worked at Microsoft where he started the group that created products eventually evolving into the Tablet PC and Pocket PC. One of the youngest interns ever hired at Microsoft, Lloyd interned summers from 1979 until 1987. Lloyd graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in economics. View Lloyd's profile
About My House: Chloe Harford - Vice President, Product Management & Strategy
Chloe is responsible for product management, strategic planning, new ventures, and business analytics. Prior to Zillow, Chloe worked at eLong.com, a leading online travel company in Beijing. Before China, Chloe worked in Europe at the Boston Consulting Group where she focused on technology and innovation, and at Expedia. Chloe's startup career began as a founding member of the Montserrat Volcano Observatory, developing new technologies to monitor an active volcano. Prior to getting hooked by tech, Chloe was a volunteer teacher in a remote Sherpa school in Nepal. Chloe earned a master's degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University, a Ph.D. in volcanology from Bristol University, and a master's in business administration (MBA) from INSEAD (European Institute for Business Administration). View Chloe's profile
About My House: Dr. Stan Humphries - Chief Economist
Stan is responsible for economic analysis and consuming-facing analytics at Zillow. He helped create the algorithms for the Zestimate® home value and the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) and oversees the production of Zillow housing market metrics and economic research that brings insight into current market conditions. Prior to joining Zillow, Stan spent five years at Expedia where he ran a team responsible for finding innovative ways to use data, building systems for personalization, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection. Before Expedia, Stan served as a researcher and faculty member at the University of Virginia, and was previously with NASA where he negotiated international science agreements. Stan has also served in the United States Peace Corps, where he taught physics and chemistry classes in West Africa. Stan has a bachelor's degree in political science/economics from Davidson College, a master's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in government from the University of Virginia. View Stan's profile
About My House: Garrett McAuliffe - Vice President, Engineering
As one of the founding members of the Zillow product development team in 2005, Garrett now oversees the Mobile Technology team. In 2008, Garrett also founded InfoPogo, a mobile software development company. Prior to Zillow, Garrett was Vice President, Development at Expedia, where he was responsible for the Air, Car, and Shared Technology teams from 1996 to 2005. Garrett also founded the Asia Pacific product team inside Expedia, and oversaw the Europe, Canada, and the Worldwide Travel Exchange product teams. Prior to Expedia, Garrett held various management and developer roles in the Operating Systems, Consumer, Hardware, and Internet divisions of Microsoft from 1990 until Expedia spun out in 1999. Garrett earned a bachelor's degree in information and computer science from the University of California, Irvine. View Garrett's profile
About My House: Kathleen Philips - General Counsel
Kathleen is responsible for all company legal matters and business development. Before joining Zillow, Kathleen served as General Counsel for FanSnap, a search engine for live event tickets. Kathleen also has served as General Counsel for Pure Digital Technologies (the maker of the Flip Video camcorder), StubHub and Hotwire. Kathleen began her legal career in private practice at Cooley Godward and Stoel Rives. Kathleen earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a juris doctor degree from the University of Chicago.
About My House: Christopher Roberts - Vice President, Product Teams
Christopher manages the Shopping/Data Import, Mortgage, and User Experience product teams at Zillow. Prior to joining Zillow, Christopher worked for more than eight years in various senior management roles at Expedia, most recently as Senior Vice President, Engineering, overseeing the team that built the leisure travel technology platform. Prior to Expedia, Christopher was a manager at Microsoft and software development manager at Andersen Consulting. Christopher earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. View Christopher's profile
About My House: Greg Schwartz - Chief Revenue Officer
Greg is responsible for strategy, direction and operation of the sales and partner relations teams. He joined Zillow in 2006 as Vice President of Sales and has built a national sales team and the company's advertising sales platform for the website and location-based mobile platform. Before joining Zillow, Greg was Vice President of Advertising Sales at CNNMoney.com where he built the advertising sales team and platform. He was also National Accounts Director for Yahoo! Inc.'s Automotive and Finance properties. Greg has also held various positions at DoubleClick, Inc., including Director of Business Development, and he co-founded the wireless advertising business unit. Greg graduated from Hamilton College with a bachelor's degree in political science. View Greg's profile
About My House: Doug Slotkin - Vice President, Local Advertising Sales
Doug runs Zillow's local ad sales organization and is responsible for the growth and development of the inside sales team at Zillow. Prior to joining Zillow, Doug worked for Market Leader (formerly HouseValues) where he held various sales and sales leadership roles. Previously, Doug was the international sales manager at O'Brien Watersports where he transformed a subsidiary based distribution model into an independent network of 80+ international distributors. Doug has a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate business degree with an emphasis in entrepreneurial studies from Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris. View Doug's Profile
About My House: Tony Small - Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations
Tony joined Zillow in 2009, and leads the account management and agent services teams. Before joining Zillow, Tony was a Senior Manager at Amazon.com, where he led Sales Operations and where he co-founded business targeting sales and customer incentives, which generated $100 million in sales within 3 years. Tony also worked as a consultant for Booze Allen & Hamilton, where he advised the National Security Administration (NSA) on IT security. Before that, Tony worked at AskMe Corporation, a Seattle-based start-up, where he led the development of the company's flagship enterprise knowledge sharing product, and Microsoft, where he worked in Program Management for several releases of Microsoft Outlook and Office. Tony has a bachelor's degree in computer science and an MBA from Stanford University. View Tony's profile
About My House: Chris Staats - Vice President, IT & Operations
Chris oversees the engineering teams that keep Zillow's production and internal technology infrastructure humming and evolving. His areas of responsibility include Datacenter, Networking Engineering, Database Operations, Release Management, Unix Engineering, and Corporate IT. Chris brings with him over 16 years of experience in Information Technology and Operational Management. Prior to Zillow, Chris worked in Microsoft's Foundational Services division managing engineering teams responsible for supporting several of Microsoft's largest online properties. Chris has held numerous other positions in the industry, including posts as Vice President of Operations for Hubspan, a cloud-based B2B integration provider for the Fortune 500, and Vice President of Technology for Onvia where he guided the technology roadmap from startup phase to publicly traded status. Chris has a bachelor's degree in management information systems from the University of Washington. View Chris' Profile