Virtuance Real Estate Photography CEO and leadership

With his extensive experience in all facets of real estate including development, brokerage, marketing and property management, Jeff brings a highly refined understanding of the real estate and vacation rental industries to bear on the operational aspects of the company. Jeff grew up watching his mother, an architectural photographer, excel at her craft. He soon realized, though, that technology offered incredible opportunities to combine the art of photography with the science of image processing in order to market properties with unprecedented efficiency and efficacy. Jeff is responsible for establishing and executing on the company's growth strategy and ensuring that the company maintains its high standards across all operational levels. Immediately prior to co-founding Virtuance, Jeff served for four years as Acquisitions and Development Manager at a Colorado based real estate investment firm. He also previously worked in acquisitions for a private real estate investment trust. Prior to entering the real estate industry, he began his career as an investigative journalist, working with John Stossel and Barbara Walters at ABC News and later as a political and economic development reporter for an ABC news affiliate in Missouri. Jeff has a Master's Degree from the University of Denver in Real Estate Development and Finance and a Bachelor's of Science degree from Washington University in St. Louis in political science and business.

Igor is a leading expert in signal process engineering and systems engineering. He is responsible for developing the core algorithms and processes that power our current image processing technologies, as well as designing and building the core functionality for many of the company’s proprietary software applications. Prior to joining Virtuance, Igor was the first employee at VoiceSignal, a groundbreaking voice recognition technology company founded in 1997. He spent ten years serving as Chief Scientist and oversaw a team of fifty engineers. Under Igor’s technical leadership, VoiceSignal developed voice recognition technology that has become the industry standard and is currently used on nearly 60 percent of all of the world’s mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone. Prior to VoiceSignal, Igor worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratories as a signal processing engineer engaged by the government to work on government imaging projects. Most recently, Igor was a founding partner of Color Leap, the creator of an automated image processing application designed to be used on smartphones.

With his extensive experience in all facets of real estate including development, brokerage, marketing and property management, Jeff brings a highly refined understanding of the real estate and vacation rental industries to bear on the operational aspects of the company. Jeff grew up watching his mother, an architectural photographer, excel at her craft. He soon realized, though, that technology offered incredible opportunities to combine the art of photography with the science of image processing in order to market properties with unprecedented efficiency and efficacy. Jeff is responsible for establishing and executing on the company's growth strategy and ensuring that the company maintains its high standards across all operational levels. Immediately prior to co-founding Virtuance, Jeff served for four years as Acquisitions and Development Manager at a Colorado based real estate investment firm. He also previously worked in acquisitions for a private real estate investment trust. Prior to entering the real estate industry, he began his career as an investigative journalist, working with John Stossel and Barbara Walters at ABC News and later as a political and economic development reporter for an ABC news affiliate in Missouri. Jeff has a Master's Degree from the University of Denver in Real Estate Development and Finance and a Bachelor's of Science degree from Washington University in St. Louis in political science and business.