Nashville, Tenn.-based Built Technologies, a construction finance platform, has announced the additions of Amrit Gill, Kristi Brown, Ed Rogers, and Jesse DeMund to its leadership team.
Collectively, they bring over 80 years of experience in sales and marketing to Built, where they will drive customer and revenue growth, the company said.
Amrit Gill joins Built as the global head of partnerships, with more than 10 years of expertise in strategic sales and relationship management in technology and financial services. Before joining Built, Amrit served as vice president, head of partnerships at Trepp, where she helped to expand the company’s extensive partner network. She also spent 11 years at BlackRock, where she led business development for a variety of institutional financial products. Gill will be based out of Built’s New York City office, where she will focus on expanding business opportunities through strategic partner collaborations.
As Built’s vice president of marketing, Kristi Brown brings over 20 years of experience developing and executing strategic initiatives while driving aggressive demand generation programs to move the business forward. She joins the Built team from Vonage, where she served as senior director of marketing. In her new role at Built, Brown will focus on brand strategy, customer experiences, and accelerating growth by showcasing the efficiencies and value Built’s technology delivers to the construction finance industry by increasing the speed at which money moves throughout the entire ecosystem.
Ed Rogers has over 25 years of experience in residential construction and renovation lending, joining the Built team as manager of consumer solutions. Rogers will work closely with lender clients as well as sales, product, and engineering teams to ensure Built’s products and service delivery add value throughout all new residential construction and renovation lending processes. Previously, Ed served as vice president of agency construction and renovation financing at Caliber Home Loans Inc., where he contributed to the implementation of Built’s Construction Loan Administration platform, which Caliber has utilized since 2018.
Joining the Built team as vice president of sales, Jesse DeMund will focus on accelerating the company's rapidly growing Built for Construction channel by providing account management and payment possibilities to contractors within the construction industry to speed payments with their subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers. Bringing over 18 years of experience in building and leading sales teams, DeMund most recently served as area vice president of sales throughout North America at LogMeIn, where he was responsible for the growth and retention of more than 18,000 SMB and mid-market customers.
“These passionate and experienced sales and marketing leaders add additional depth and breadth to our leadership team,” said Jamie Ikerd, COO of Built. “We are in a unique position to rewrite the construction finance ecosystem, and the additions of Amrit, Kristi, Ed, and Jesse to our team of experts will help us reach and add value to more construction stakeholders than ever before and ultimately change the way the world gets built.”
Since launching in 2015, Built’s platform has been used to manage the financing of over $146 billion in construction value, spanning more than 200,000 commercial, homebuilder, land development, and consumer residential projects. In October 2021, the company announced $125 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1.5 billion, which will be used to continue growing its team and suite of solutions.
