About Hire Reach Hire Reach was founded in 2007 in Cambridge, MA and is staffed by MIT and Harvard-trained scientists and industry veterans. Hire Reach operates the first solution that is designed from the ground up to connect companies, cost-effectively, with passive candidates. Hire Reach has raised money both from angels and strategic industry investors. Our Team Steve Lewis, Founder and CEO Steve founded Hire Reach after recognizing the potential to use innovative technologies to solve inefficiencies in the way companies source and recruit skilled people. Steve has a longstanding interest in entrepreneurship, having founded his first company while a sophomore in college. While a business student at MIT, he was part of a team that won first prize in the Lemelson business plan competition. He has mentored several contestants in the MIT 100K Competition, including a finalist and an overall winner. Steve previously founded eSeated, a venture-backed restaurant reservations and payments company, which won the MITX Best Networked Application before being acquired in 2000. Steve received his BA from Hampshire College, and his MBA and PhD from MIT. more... Vincent Bareau, VP Engineering Vince joined Hire Reach from Idiom Technologies, where he served as VP of SaaS Technologies. Previously, Vince spent nearly 10 years at Books24x7.com, where as Chief Architect he created one of the first on-demand subscription services on the Web. In addition to his broad internet expertise and experience, Vince brings 20 years of corporate software and engineering experience, including senior positions at Waters Corporation and ADE Corporation. Vince holds a B.App.Sc in Engineering Physics from UBC and an M.S. in Physics from l'Université du Québec (INRS). more... Larry Denenberg, Chief Scientist Larry's background is both academic and real-world engineering. He earned AB mcl, AM, and PhD degrees from Harvard University, all in Applied Mathematics. He has served on the faculties of Harvard and Tufts Universities and is the author of a standard textbook on algorithms and data structures as well as peer-reviewed publications in the fields of computational mathematical logic and database theory. Larry began his engineering career as a senior engineer and then senior scientist at BBN, where he focused on the construction and analysis of packet-switched networks. He had primary responsibility for creating graph-theoretic algorithms and traffic modeling tools used to design networks that combined to form the original Internet. While at BBN, he was also part of the team that created one of the first generally available speech recognizers. Larry was a co-founder and CTO of InTouch Systems, a company that built commercial speech recognition products for telecom carriers (including Sprint). InTouch was acquired by Comverse Technologies, which made its products available worldwide. After InTouch was acquired by Comverse, Larry served as CTO of Comverse's Speech Portal Division. Larry holds five US patents. more... Doug Redding, CFO Doug has more than 30 years of experience in finance and operations, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of VIMAC Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with investments in information technology and life sciences. In addition to managing firm operations, Doug spent a substantial portion of his time supporting portfolio company management on planning, budgeting, infrastructure and financing. Prior to VIMAC, Doug spent 20 years as a founder and senior level executive at several early-stage technology firms, including Software Developers' Company, Cortex Corporation, CenterLine Software and edu.com. He started his career with seven years at Price Waterhouse and is a Certified Public Accountant. Doug holds a BA from Stanford University and attended Cornell and UCLA Graduate Schools of Business. more... Andrei Lapets, Director of Research and Operations Andrei holds S.M. and A.B. degrees from Harvard University in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a Ph.D. from Boston University in Computer Science. Andrei brings with him a rigorous understanding of efficient algorithms and machine learning techniques, as well as deep knowledge of the design and implementation of programming languages. In addition to his current role developing Hire Reach technology, Andrei is a postdoctoral research associate in the Computer Science department at Boston University, where he develops ontologies, automated assistance tools, and formal verification systems for programming and formal reasoning. more... | ![]() | | |
