Employees at BiggerPockets rank Scott Trench in the Top 5% of CEOs in Denver. Similarly, employees at Redfin rank Glenn Kelman in the Top 5% of CEOs in Seattle. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Scott Trench

CEO of BiggerPockets

BIO: Scott Trench is the CEO and President of BiggerPockets.com. Scott has dedicated his career to helping ordinary Americans build wealth in part through real estate investing. Since joining BiggerPockets in 2014, Scott has authored wealth building book Set for Life and joined Mindy Jenson as a host of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast . He stays active in the BiggerPockets forums and contributed hundreds of articles, market analyses, and files to BiggerPockets. He has also contributed to other personal finance blogs, along with traditional news outlets including Time, CNBC, and NBC. An active real estate investor in the Denver market, Scott currently manages a private portfolio with about $1.5M in real estate assets under management and holds his real estate license as a CO broker. Scott graduated from Vanderbilt University with degrees in Economics and History, Corporate Strategy, and Finance.

Glenn Kelman

CEO of Redfin

BIO: Mr. Glenn Kelman has been the Chief Executive Officer and President of Redfin Corporation since March 2006. Mr. Kelman served as Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Plumtree Software, Inc. since March 1998. He was a co-founder of Plumtree Software. In his seven years at Plumtree, Mr. Kelman at different times led engineering, marketing, product management and business development. He was also responsible for financing and general operations in Plumtree's first two years. Mr. Kelman served as a senior product manager at Informix Software, a company he joined via the acquisition of Stanford Technology Group, from 1995 to 1997. As a product manager for On-Line Analytical Processing software following Informix Software's acquisition of Stanford Technology Group, Mr. Kelman was involved in designing and launching a major release of Informix Software's On-Line Analytical Processing product line. Mr. Kelman worked as one of the first employees at Stanford Technology Group, a Sequoia-backed start-up acquired by IBM. He has been a Director of Redfin Corporation since March 2006. Mr. Kelman graduated summa cum laude from University of California, Berkeley with a BA in English and 1989 graduate of Interlake High School in Bellevue.