Management

Mr. Kelman is Redfin's CEO. Prior to joining Redfin, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market. In his seven years at Plumtree, Mr. Kelman at different times led engineering, marketing, product management and business development; he also was responsible for financing and general operations in Plumtree's early days. Prior to starting Plumtree, Mr. Kelman worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. Mr. Kelman is a member of the Board of Directors for Naviance, a hosted service for schools and colleges. Mr. Kelman was raised in Seattle and was graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley.

Scott Nagel runs all of Redfin's real estate operations, with responsibility for revenues, customer service and legal compliance. Prior to that, he was a managing director at LexisNexis, with profit-and-loss responsibility for an $80 million-business, and vice president of strategy and client operations at Applied Discovery, a successful legal services software startup. Mr. Nagel worked for many years as an attorney, having graduated with a law degree from Seattle University and a political science degree from the University of Washington.

Mr. Young is Redfin's chief technology officer. He has a long history as a leader and an architect at successful software companies. Most recently, he was a lead program manager for Microsoft BizTalk Server. For eight years prior to that, he was the chief architect at Plumtree Software, where he played a leadership role from its earliest startup days to its public offering. Prior to Plumtree, Mr. Young worked as an architect at enterprise software company ViewStar, joining at an early stage and remaining through a successful acquisition by Mosaix (which Lucent acquired). Mr. Young graduated with honors in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.