United StatesLucas Haldeman
Lucas Haldeman earned a degree from Cornell College covering economics, business, English, and computer science, and spent more than two decades building web-based real-estate technology, beginning as an early employee at AllApartments.com and continuing through Homestore.com (now Move, Inc.). He co-founded and led Nexus Property Management before becoming chief technology and marketing officer of Colony Starwood Homes, where he built a platform to acquire, renovate, lease, and manage tens of thousands of single-family rental homes. That experience exposed him to the difficulty of managing large rental portfolios, leading him to found SmartRent in 2017 as an enterprise smart-home and access-control platform for multifamily and single-family operators. As CEO he took the company public on the NYSE in 2021 through a SPAC merger.