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Michelle Wern
Product Designer
Ben Witten
Head of Real Estate

Prior to joining Placer.ai, Ben spent 7 years at Trademark Property Company as Vice President of Finance & Asset Management where he was responsible for coordinating strategy, finance and asset management functions within Trademark’s $3B portfolio including the redevelopment of several market-dominant lifestyle and mixed-use assets. Prior to joining Trademark, Ben was directly involved in the national underwriting and successful disposition of non-performing CMBS loans and REO assets at C-III Capital Partners with a combined market value exceeding $350M. Ben is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Urban Land Institute (ULI). Ben earned his BBA and MBA with Real Estate Finance concentration from the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University.

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Jack O'Neal
Account Executive
Stan Wolf
Sales Engineer
Laura Swartz
Customer Success Manager

Laura Swartz, a Customer Success Manager at Testfit, leads the implementation of the TF ecosystem into our customers' feasibility processes. As registered architect with a Master's degree in Real Estate and over 15 years of industry experience, she brings valuable insights from her tenure at multiple architecture firms, a national REIT, and as a Senior Planner for the City of Austin. Her diverse background uniquely positions her to understand the objectives and requirements of our customer base, ensuring tailored solutions for each client.

Derien Stephens
Product Owner

Derien Stephens is a Product Owner at TestFit, helping to oversee the practical use of AI to simplify the real estate feasibility processes. With experience in VC-backed startups, Derien focuses on advancing web-related features for TestFit. His role ensures developers, architects, and contractors benefit from efficient solutions in the world of real estate feasibility.

Tyler Suomala
Founder

Tyler Suomala is the Founder of Growthitect, a weekly 5-minute newsletter that helps 4,500+ busy architects grow their income, value, and confidence with marketing and sales strategies. He also is Manager of Content at Monograph and a Strategic Advisor at Acelab.

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Jack Joers
Director of New Markets

Jack Joers started his career in architecture and urban planning, but his passion for technology and entrepreneurial spirit landed him at TestFit as Director of New Markets. Jack brings a unique perspective on where the development process needs disruption and is focused on how to leverage innovative tools like AI to help the real estate industry move forward. He has spent time working at GGP, Brookfield, and Villa helping as a site planner and design coordinator before making the jump into the tech world.

Reilley Moore
Account Manager
Matthew Cole
Account Manager
Robyne Gaudreau
CFO

With nearly 25 years of experience, Robyne comes to TestFit with experience in the AEC, Financial Services, Healthcare IT and Real Estate verticals. Robyne uses her unique skillset, along with her ability to drive shareholder value, to lead teams through growth and execution.Robyne and her husband live north of Dallas and have 2 kids. If she isn’t hard at work growing companies, you can probably find her on a sports field or dance competition.

Will O'Donnell
Managing Director and Founder
Ryan Gathmann​
VP of Product​

Ryan Gathmann's career started as a registered architect working on commercial, hospitality, sports, multifamily, mixed-use & more before moving to technology full time. Over the past 5 years he has applied his strategic leadership to launch a startup, develop apps, and consult for executives of publicly traded companies. Ryan understands the unique challenges TestFit customers face and identifies creative solutions to solve them.

He lives in Dallas with wife and twin girls and enjoys pushing the limits through endurance running and cycling.

Trent Nix
VP of Engineering

Trent has been fascinated with software and technology since firing up an Atari 2600 as a kid. He wrote his first program in Basic on an Apple II and has been writing software or managing software teams ever since. He graduated from Texas A&M in College Station with a BSc in Computer Science

Trent lives in the Texas panhandle with his wife and 3 kids.

Matthew Londei
Customer Success Manager
Megan Holsinger
Director of Customer Success
Ryan Griege​
CTO & Co-founder

Ryan has been writing code and making games since he was given his first TI-84 graphing calculator in junior high.

In early 2016, he was pulled kicking and screaming out of his comfy game development career into the tumultuous world of startups, architecture, and real estate. When not staring blankly at a whiteboard filled with mysterious shapes and strange mathematical symbols, Ryan likes to rant against modern web-based software and read books in their physical form.

Chris Aquino
Product Expert
Laura Paciano​
SVP of Growth

Laura is an adventurer at heart. It’s why a picture in a magazine lured her to move to Santa Barbara, what inspired her to travel to over 40 countries, and why she was drawn into a career riding the rollercoaster world of startups. She’s spent her career marketing for hyper-growth, category-defining tech companies, this past decade specifically in the AEC space.

Laura and her husband have made Santa Barbara home. You can find them enjoying daily sunsets at the beach or grabbing their snowboards to chase a storm.

Marco Aquiire
Director of Research
Stephen Archer
Brand Manager
Kaj Burival
Applications Engineer
Petr Mitex
VP, Visualization Product Group
Joann Lui
Product Marketing Manager

Joann Lui, AIA, is a Product Marketing Manager at TestFit with 10+ years of experience as a licensed Architect. She's also the Founder of Women Architects Collective - a global online community of women in architecture. Combining her passions in marketing, technology and architecture, she's on a mission to help architects build happier and healthier careers.

Matthew Kendall
Product Owner
Nat MacDonald
Director of Product

With 9 years of experience as a licensed mechanical engineer, Nat MacDonald brings his skills in engineering and technology to TestFit as a Product Manager. Nat talks with customers regularly to design product procedures and algorithms that help architects and developers build at scale. He has been a speaker at various tech and AEC conferences including BILT, ASHRAE, and Autodesk University. Outside of work, you can find him tweeting with the AEC tech community or mountain biking in Portland, Maine.

Alexine Gordon-Stewart
Chief of Staff

While educated as a horse dentist in Britain, Alexine has been helping to scale AECO startups for over a decade. With a passion for startups and early-phase category definition, she thrives on making the whole TestFit machine run smoothly with our motivated team & unique culture. She lives in Montreal with her husband, 2 kiddos, 2 cats, 2 fish & 1 horse.

Clifton Harness
CEO & Co-founder

Clifton Harness loves to build—buildings & now companies. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Architecture. Soon after joining a real estate development company as an architect, Clifton started working with college roommate Ryan Griege after hours to innovate deal processes, which soon grew into TestFit. Clifton lives in Dallas with his wife Annalise, children Savannah and Wells, and his golden doodle, Brinkley.

Kyle Bernhardt
CPO

Kyle has spent his career at the intersection of software and AEC, exploring how technology can enable better outcomes. Working on one of the largest BIM platforms in the world, helping to migrate its collaboration to the cloud, and driving the business strategy in the building design segment, Kyle brings a wealth of experience to TestFit and our clients.

Kyle hails from Boston and enjoys the wonderful chaos of his family life with his wife and 3 kids. He likes to recharge his batteries via hot yoga, singletrack trails on his bike, or on the frozen slopes on his skis.

We’re reinventing the development process for the betterment of the world’s future communities.

Reduce Risk. Increase Potential.

Real estate development is risky and complicated—we’re here to make it easier with less risk. TestFit's real estate feasibility platform helps realize the full potential of land through trusted automation.

3200
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Deals Evaluated per Week
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Users Trust TestFit
2022, Built worlds top 50 precon
PropTech Breakthrough Award 2023 - Overall Construction Tech Solution of the Year
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Venture Dallas Start up of the Year

TestFit was started to solve a simple problem: we hate counting.

One of our founders, Clifton Harness, was working at a development company when he got frustrated endlessly drawing apartment units and counting parking stalls. The effort it took to complete these mundane tasks was painstaking (and honestly, a waste of his time).

That’s where our other co-founder Ryan Griege comes in. Clifton reached out to his college roommate who was a software developer and asked if he could build a program to help him do his job faster.

Picture of the founders.

The first version of TestFit was a simple command-line utility to help Clifton solve apartment unit mixes. It wasn’t fancy. It didn’t even have a user interface, but it was designed to solve a real problem in the real world.

TestFit quickly grew as they automated other monotonous, error-prone steps in the deal process, like counting parking stalls, generating multiple design options, calculating the yield on cost…

What started as a tool for multi-family development also expanded into mixed-use, single-family, and industrial developments to help build better communities. Now TestFit has become a real estate feasibility platform with real-time insights on design, cost, and constructability, for developers, architects, and general contractors.

We believe that everyone deserves quality communities. By creating automation that helps deal teams visualize and compare various schemes in seconds, we can optimize the feasibility process to build what the world needs, faster.

Leadership Team

Testfit is made up of people from all sorts of AEC backgrounds from architecture, to engineering, construction, urban planning, and more.

Clifton Harness
CEO & Co-founder
Ryan Griege​
CTO & Co-founder
Robyne Gaudreau
CFO
Alexine Gordon-Stewart
Chief of Staff
Laura Paciano​
SVP of Growth
Nat MacDonald
Director of Product

Board of Directors

Gregg Hill
Parkway Venture Capital
Jesse Coors-Blankenship
Parkway Venture Capital
Todd Lewis
Prologis

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