Donald Desantis

Co-Founder | Chief Product Officer

Nava Benefits

Oct 2019 - Current (6 years 8 months)

Nava is on a mission to bring high quality and affordable healthcare to every American. Learn more about how we plan to do this, and the context behind the company here: https://www.navabenefits.com/blog/why-we-started-nava p.s. We are hiring.

Co-Founder | SVP Design

VTS

Nov 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 2 months)

VTS provides the commercial real estate industry with realtime reporting, market insights, and search tools. The company has been recognized as the most innovative team in the commercial real estate industry and one of the best places to work in New York City.

Hackathon Guy

Techstars Startup Weekend

Mar 2010 - Jan 2014 (3 years 11 months)

Startup Weekend, now part of Techstars, promotes entrepreneurship through application and practice. I've worked with Startup Weekend from some of its earliest days, traveling the world to help build startup communities. This is some of the most exhausting and rewarding work I've done.

Co-Founder | Chief Product Officer

Hightower Inc

Sep 2012 - Dec 2017 (5 years 4 months)

Hightower started over a coffee meeting in Seattle in mid 2012. Our vision was transforming the commercial real estate industry by providing accurate, up to date, and comprehensive market data. In 2014 we raised a seed round co-led by Thrive Capital and Bessemer. In 2014 we moved the company to New York. In 2015 Crain's named us one of NYC's best places to work. In 2016 Hightower merged with VTS to accelerate our shared vision for the commercial real estate industry.

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Co-Founder

LIFFFT

Jan 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 9 months)

LIFFFT was a boutique consultancy serving innovative brands and retailers. At LIFFFT, we worked with the Nordstrom Innovation Lab and the Microsoft Garage, helping those teams discover customer needs, deliver new products, and launch internal programs to grow innovation throughout their organizations.

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User Experience Designer

Giant Thinkwell

May 2011 - Jan 2012 (9 months)

Giant Thinkwell explored new social media channels for celebrities by offering realtime communities of fans. Musicians, social media agencies, and celebrity bloggers used the platform to engage their audiences. It wasn't a great business, but I learned a ton.

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User Experience Designer

Giant Thinkwell

May 2011 - Jan 2012 (9 months)

Giant Thinkwell explored new social media channels for celebrities by offering realtime communities of fans. Musicians, social media agencies, and celebrity bloggers used the platform to engage their audiences. It wasn't a great business, but I learned a ton.

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User Experience Designer

AppStoreHQ

May 2010 - May 2011 (1 year 1 month)

AppStoreHQ provided mobile app developers with distribution opportunities. The company eventually sold to Tune.

User Experience Designer

Self Employed

Jul 2008 - May 2011 (2 years 11 months)

Design consulting for many tiny companies, and one or two large ones.

Team Lead

Redfin

Mar 2007 - Oct 2008 (1 year 8 months)

I joined Redfin as one of their first real estate agents. Then I decided that I wanted to be a product manager. I made some of my best friends at Redfin and am still thankful for the opportunity I had to work there.

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Cofounder

hill Studio

Apr 2003 - Aug 2004 (1 year 5 months)

7hill was a music production studio with gallery/events space in the heart of Seattle's Pike/Pine corridor. I still like making music.

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Real Estate Sales and Marketing

Williams Marketing

Apr 2004 - Mar 2007 (3 years)

I specialized in small apartment buildings, but sold a lot of houses and condos too.

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