E41 Ron Bekkerman, CTO at Cherre

Today's guest is Ron Bekkerman, who is the Chief Technology Officer at Cherre. Ron has extensive experience in commercial software engineering and is an expert in Big Data and intelligent Web applications. Ron is well connected both within the industrial and academic Data Mining communities and has now turned his focus to real estate data.

Based in New York, Cherre provides investors, insurers, brokers and other large enterprises with a platform to collect, resolve and augment real estate data from thousands of public, private and internal sources. By providing a “single source of truth,” they empower you to evaluate opportunities and trends faster, and more accurately while saving you millions of dollars in manual data collection and analytics costs.

In the show, Ron will talk about:

• His fascinating 20-year journey to joining Cherre
• Cherre’s work in the real estate sector
• How they are disrupting the real estate market
• The challenge of working with Dirty Data
• How Cherre successfully grew thier brand
• Advice to Data Scientists on landing a new role