ZenBusiness CEO and leadership

CEO at ZenBusiness, which democratizes entrepreneurship by making it easy to create, maintain and manage a LLC or other corporate entity. CTO of the year in 2011 and founding chief technical officer for HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY).Ross Buhrdorf has helped grow the company from a startup to its current position as a $3B global leader in the travel industry. He is responsible for building both the team and the technology platform that ultimately created and defined the concept of the “short-term rental” and “vacation rental by owner” market. In his more than 30 years as a technology leader, entrepreneur and corporate executive, Ross helps transform the way consumers interact with technology. He is passionate about the consumer Internet, security, mobile technology and how to apply innovation to build better products and a better world. Mr. Buhrdorf is a member of the Board of Directors for American National Bank (where he is helping them through a digital transformation and security upgrade) and the Santa Fe Institute - a pioneering research institute that studies complex adaptive systems in an effort to answer some of humanity’s biggest questions. Buhrdorf also serves on the board of KLRU, the non-profit PBS affiliate in Austin. An active mentor and angel investor in the technology community, Ross is a Partner at Capital Factory, a globally recognized accelerator program and investment fund.

Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of ZenBusiness Inc. Double major in Entrepreneurship and Business Management. Former Facebook.

Ryan Pitylak (born 1982) is an American entrepreneur and chief executive officer of Unique Influence, a digital marketing consulting firm based in Austin, Texas. He is former internet spammer who, in civil settlements with the state of Texas and Microsoft, admitted to "sending 25 million e-mails every day at the height of his spamming operation in 2004" and paid out over $1 million. He was listed as the fourth-worst spammer by Spamhaus Project at one time.

Alex Victoria is a Chief Technology Officer at ZenBusiness and Mentor at Capital Factory and is based in Austin, Texas. He has worked as Sr. Developer / Sr. Consultant at Trilogy, Owner at Vitori, and Global VP:Mobile Product Development at HOMEAWAY INC. Alex studied at Carnegie Mellon University between 1994 and 1998 and Carnegie Mellon University between 1998 and 1999.

Shanaz runs the technology that runs the company. She has more than 30 years of experience in technology and was previously the Global VP of Information Systems for HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY), where she led a global team responsible for data infrastructure and engineering, data tools and products, data science, analytics, CRM and ERP systems.

CEO at ZenBusiness, which democratizes entrepreneurship by making it easy to create, maintain and manage a LLC or other corporate entity. CTO of the year in 2011 and founding chief technical officer for HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY).Ross Buhrdorf has helped grow the company from a startup to its current position as a $3B global leader in the travel industry. He is responsible for building both the team and the technology platform that ultimately created and defined the concept of the “short-term rental” and “vacation rental by owner” market. In his more than 30 years as a technology leader, entrepreneur and corporate executive, Ross helps transform the way consumers interact with technology. He is passionate about the consumer Internet, security, mobile technology and how to apply innovation to build better products and a better world. Mr. Buhrdorf is a member of the Board of Directors for American National Bank (where he is helping them through a digital transformation and security upgrade) and the Santa Fe Institute - a pioneering research institute that studies complex adaptive systems in an effort to answer some of humanity’s biggest questions. Buhrdorf also serves on the board of KLRU, the non-profit PBS affiliate in Austin. An active mentor and angel investor in the technology community, Ross is a Partner at Capital Factory, a globally recognized accelerator program and investment fund.

Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of ZenBusiness Inc. Double major in Entrepreneurship and Business Management. Former Facebook.

Ryan Pitylak (born 1982) is an American entrepreneur and chief executive officer of Unique Influence, a digital marketing consulting firm based in Austin, Texas. He is former internet spammer who, in civil settlements with the state of Texas and Microsoft, admitted to "sending 25 million e-mails every day at the height of his spamming operation in 2004" and paid out over $1 million. He was listed as the fourth-worst spammer by Spamhaus Project at one time.

Alex Victoria is a Chief Technology Officer at ZenBusiness and Mentor at Capital Factory and is based in Austin, Texas. He has worked as Sr. Developer / Sr. Consultant at Trilogy, Owner at Vitori, and Global VP:Mobile Product Development at HOMEAWAY INC. Alex studied at Carnegie Mellon University between 1994 and 1998 and Carnegie Mellon University between 1998 and 1999.

Shanaz runs the technology that runs the company. She has more than 30 years of experience in technology and was previously the Global VP of Information Systems for HomeAway (NASDAQ:AWAY), where she led a global team responsible for data infrastructure and engineering, data tools and products, data science, analytics, CRM and ERP systems.

Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of ZenBusiness Inc. Double major in Entrepreneurship and Business Management. Former Facebook.