Knock Leadership

Currently co-founded Knock, a radical new way to sell a home quickly without risk and uncertainty. Formerly CEO of Uversity Inc. an industry leading student engagement platform partnered with over 140 colleges and universities to improve enrollment and retention. Uversity helps colleges connect students with the people and information they need to have a transformative college experience through its two products, Schools App and Uchat. Successfully sold the company to TargetX in June 2015. Previously was Chief Product Officer at Jobvite, Inc. the leading recruiting platform for the social web. Jobvite is a complete, modular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which can optimize the speed, cost-effectiveness and ease of recruiting for any company. Successfully created and launched the award winning Jobvite Source product as well as a Jobvite Facebook App that allows employees to easily share opportunities with their Facebook friends. I also took part in raising the Series B and Series C rounds of funding and growing the company from less than 50 customers to over 600. Prior to Jobvite, I was Vice President of Product Management at Trulia where I managed the product, design, customer service and business analytic teams. Led the development of the product from a California only beta, to nationwide and a leading real estate website. In addition, created Trulia Voices, the largest and most active real estate community on the web. Previously spent over 3 years at Yahoo! leading the real estate and classifieds product strategy, development, content acquisition and advertising partnerships and successfully increased traffic and revenue by over 40% each year.Prior to that, held several roles at Knight Ridder Digital such as, Business Manager of Real Estate & Real Classifieds and Vice President of Business Development.Graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, Cum Laude.Specialties: product development, user experience and interaction, project management, business development, competitive analysis, online real estate and classifieds industry expertise, strategic planning, financial modeling, mergers and acquisition

Named as one of the Top Revolutionary Women in Security and one of the Top Women in SaaS, Vijaya Kaza is a Silicon Valley technology executive with broad experience leading engineering, product management, and information security at various B2B and B2C companies.Vijaya has extensive experience managing large product portfolios and global product organizations, as well as start-up teams, and turn around situations.

Currently co-founded Knock, a radical new way to sell a home quickly without risk and uncertainty. Formerly CEO of Uversity Inc. an industry leading student engagement platform partnered with over 140 colleges and universities to improve enrollment and retention. Uversity helps colleges connect students with the people and information they need to have a transformative college experience through its two products, Schools App and Uchat. Successfully sold the company to TargetX in June 2015. Previously was Chief Product Officer at Jobvite, Inc. the leading recruiting platform for the social web. Jobvite is a complete, modular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which can optimize the speed, cost-effectiveness and ease of recruiting for any company. Successfully created and launched the award winning Jobvite Source product as well as a Jobvite Facebook App that allows employees to easily share opportunities with their Facebook friends. I also took part in raising the Series B and Series C rounds of funding and growing the company from less than 50 customers to over 600. Prior to Jobvite, I was Vice President of Product Management at Trulia where I managed the product, design, customer service and business analytic teams. Led the development of the product from a California only beta, to nationwide and a leading real estate website. In addition, created Trulia Voices, the largest and most active real estate community on the web. Previously spent over 3 years at Yahoo! leading the real estate and classifieds product strategy, development, content acquisition and advertising partnerships and successfully increased traffic and revenue by over 40% each year.Prior to that, held several roles at Knight Ridder Digital such as, Business Manager of Real Estate & Real Classifieds and Vice President of Business Development.Graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, Cum Laude.Specialties: product development, user experience and interaction, project management, business development, competitive analysis, online real estate and classifieds industry expertise, strategic planning, financial modeling, mergers and acquisition

Currently co-founded Knock, a radical new way to sell a home quickly without risk and uncertainty. Formerly CEO of Uversity Inc. an industry leading student engagement platform partnered with over 140 colleges and universities to improve enrollment and retention. Uversity helps colleges connect students with the people and information they need to have a transformative college experience through its two products, Schools App and Uchat. Successfully sold the company to TargetX in June 2015. Previously was Chief Product Officer at Jobvite, Inc. the leading recruiting platform for the social web. Jobvite is a complete, modular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which can optimize the speed, cost-effectiveness and ease of recruiting for any company. Successfully created and launched the award winning Jobvite Source product as well as a Jobvite Facebook App that allows employees to easily share opportunities with their Facebook friends. I also took part in raising the Series B and Series C rounds of funding and growing the company from less than 50 customers to over 600. Prior to Jobvite, I was Vice President of Product Management at Trulia where I managed the product, design, customer service and business analytic teams. Led the development of the product from a California only beta, to nationwide and a leading real estate website. In addition, created Trulia Voices, the largest and most active real estate community on the web. Previously spent over 3 years at Yahoo! leading the real estate and classifieds product strategy, development, content acquisition and advertising partnerships and successfully increased traffic and revenue by over 40% each year.Prior to that, held several roles at Knight Ridder Digital such as, Business Manager of Real Estate & Real Classifieds and Vice President of Business Development.Graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration from University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, Cum Laude.Specialties: product development, user experience and interaction, project management, business development, competitive analysis, online real estate and classifieds industry expertise, strategic planning, financial modeling, mergers and acquisition

Named as one of the Top Revolutionary Women in Security and one of the Top Women in SaaS, Vijaya Kaza is a Silicon Valley technology executive with broad experience leading engineering, product management, and information security at various B2B and B2C companies.Vijaya has extensive experience managing large product portfolios and global product organizations, as well as start-up teams, and turn around situations.