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Chicago & Midwest  + Downtown  + Finance  |  May 1, 2023
Paul Bubny
By: Paul Bubny

Real Estate AI Firm Names Marc Rutzen as CEO 

HelloData.ai, a real estate artificial intelligence company that develops algorithms to extract structured data from real estate images and documents, named Marc Rutzen as CEO. Based in Chicago, Rutzen brings more than a decade of experience in real estate technology and machine learning.  

Rutzen spent the first part of his career in development, brokerage and consulting before launching Enodo, a startup that utilized machine learning to automate the real estate investment underwriting process. Timothy Gamble and Nicolas Lassaux, the cofounders of Hello Data, met Rutzen as the first two full-time hires at Enodo, acquired by Walker & Dunlop in 2019. 

“Real estate data is often trapped in images, documents and various platforms that don’t integrate with each other – and I’ve seen firsthand how much time real estate analysts and underwriters spend manually moving data from one medium to another,” said Rutzen. “Tim and Nico have created a suite of AI products that can reduce the time it takes for these tasks from many hours to a few seconds.” 

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About Paul Bubny

Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).
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