Participating Company Profiles - Day Two
HomeLight is the world's premier marketplace for finding real estate agents. Our proprietary algorithms analyze home sales data to identify agents that sell homes faster and for more money, based on their actual past performance.
128 Spear Street, Ground Floor San Francisco , CA 94105
Company Representative: Drew Uher, Chief Executive Officer
Drew Uher is the founder and CEO of HomeLight, the world’s best way to find a real estate agent. HomeLight analyzes actual trans- action history and client reviews to objectively determine which agents may be best for you. Before HomeLight, Drew co-founded a social gaming company that grew to five million monthly active users. He also worked at Morgan Stanley and at Q Investments, a multi-strategy hedge fund. Drew received his BBA from Texas A&M and his MBA from Stanford. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and has been named one of the 100 most influential leaders in real estate by Inman News.
Founded in 2002, Hortau is an IoT platform for commercial agriculture. Hortau’s smart irriga- tion management stations help growers detect plant stress using soil tension, ensuring opti- mal crop growth while reducing water use, energy consumption and environmental impact. With U.S. operations based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Hortau has offices, representatives and technicians throughout North America, including a Canada headquarters in Lévis, Qué- bec.
624 Clarion Court San Luis Obispo , CA 93401
Company Representative: Jocelyn Boudreau, Chief Executive Officer
Jocelyn Boudreau is CEO and co-founder of Hortau. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and a Masters degree in soil physics from Laval University. Early in his career, Jocelyn worked at Laval University as a research assistant, helping with the development of a sub-irrigation system in capillary mat for container crops, greenhouse and nursery. He then acted as a tech consultant for various irrigation, soil physics and technical sales projects, before co-founding Hortau in 2002. Jocelyn is currently responsible for managing the company’s human and financial resources, coordinating the team, strategic planning and also preparing and managing the com- pany’s board meetings. Jocelyn currently lives with his family in San Luis Obispo, Calif, operating out of Hortau’s U.S. headquarters.
With HotLink, corporate IT can easily adopt a wide range of hybrid computing resources without adding the typical layers of management complexity, integration challenges, opera- tional risk and exorbitant cost. The patented HotLink Cloud-Attach Platform is unique in its ability to provide seamless interoperability of the VMware management ecosystem with cloud resources like Amazon Web Services, Azure, OpenStack, vCloud Air and all major on- premise hypervisors. Only HotLink makes it possible for production IT environments to easily incorporate low cost, agile cloud technologies and continue to use their well-honed manage- ment, workflows and skills.
3130 De La Cruz Blvd, Ste 211 Santa Clara , CA 95054
Company Representative: Lynn LeBlanc, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and Founder, has over 25 years of enterprise software and technology experience at both Fortune 500 compa- nies and Silicon Valley start-ups. Prior to founding HotLink, Ms. LeBlanc was founder and CEO of FastScale Technology, an enter- prise software company acquired by VMware, Inc. With a proven track record of successfully bringing emerging technologies to mar- ket, her extensive career includes SVP and VP roles in general management, marketing and business development at industry lead- ers including Cadence Design Systems and Octel Communications as well as acquired start-ups iReady Corporation, ILEX Systems and Atherton Technology. Lynn also served as VP of Marketing and Business Development at Scyld Software and spent her early career at IBM Corporation.
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