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During doctoral research, Virbela founders discovered the key to high-performing remote teams: social and emotional connection. Virtual worlds create the deeply social spaces people miss when working from home, learning online, or attending virtual events. Since 2012, we've been engineering and designing immersive 3D environments that provide the presence and emotional connection of being together in person. read more

This company is accepting feedback from verified employees EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS: 99

TOTAL RATINGS: 2868

CEO: Alex Howland

Alex Howland Virbela CEO Rating

Virbela's CEO, Alex Howland, has 99 employee ratings and a score of 92/100, placing them in the Top 5% of similar size companies on Comparably with 51-200 Employees. When breaking the CEO score down by factors such as department, gender, and ethnicity, we see that females at Virbela rate Alex Howland higher than males, giving the CEO a score of 92/100.

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Where This Score Ranks Virbela's CEO Rating

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Virbela CEO Alex Howland Bio

Alex founded VirBELA, a social virtual reality platform focused on education and team development with clients in various industries from government to retail. The VirBELA team developed eXp Realty’s cloud-based campus, called eXp World. eXp World Holdings, eXp Realty’s parent company, acquired VirBELA’s core group of products and services in November 2018.

As President of eXp World Technologies, an eXp World Holdings company, Alex leads the development of VirBELA’s products and services to expand the offering to agents, teams and others who could benefit from their own, always-available environments for collaboration.

In the development of VirBELA, Alex was awarded financial support from the Graduate Management Admissions Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation and the American Psychological Association to support some of innovations and research.

Alex has a bachelors in organization psychology from Providence College and a doctorate in philosophy from Alliant International University, San Diego Scripps Ranch.

Who Ranks Virbela's CEO Rating the Highest?

Experience - Entry Level 98/100

Department - Customer Support 95/100

Department - Sales 95/100

Who Ranks Virbela's CEO Rating the Lowest?

Ethnicity - Other 84/100

Ethnicity - Asian or Pacific Islander 86/100

Department - Engineering 88/100

Virbela CEO Alex Howland At a Glance

The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Virbela.

Based on 99 ratings, Alex Howland ranks right above Unity's CEO, John Riccitiello.

Virbela's CEO is highly regarded by employees with Entry Level experience, the Customer Support department, and the Sales department. However, Asian or Pacific Islander employees and the Engineering department have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.