Eric Bollens

Chief Technology Officer @Lightbox

LightBox is a leading provider of due diligence, risk management, location intelligence and workflow solutions for over brokers, 1,200 banks and lenders, appraisal firms and engineering firms. Supporting over $2 trillion in real estate transactions annually, LightBox is combining proven CRE brands with leading GIS and big data technology to transform how decisions are made in real estate. LightBox is backed by Silver Lake and Battery Ventures. As Chief Technology Officer at LightBox, Eric leads the organization of software, data and infrastructure engineers that build and maintain LightBox\'s web and data products, its data assets, and its big data platform. This includes ingestion of other 10 thousand data sources, processes over 18 billion spatial, relational and raster data element, and serves over 60 billion API calls and 900 thousand reports annually; a product portfolio of dozens of web, data and report products relied upon by the CRE and GIS industries; and an initiative to unify LightBox\'s product ecosystem within a next generation web and API experience.