Buildium Company Overview

Chris is bringing to the role more than 25 years of experience as a marketing and business executive. He spent 10 years at Constant Contact, where he most recently held the role of Chief Revenue Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Chris is also a board member at WordStream, an online marketing software company; MITX, an internet business and marketing association; and GamerFame, a daily challenge app. He holds a B.A. in French from UMass and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Northeastern.

Chris lives outside of Boston with his wife, three sons, and a yellow lab named Lego.

Before Michael co-founded Buildium in 2004, he was a consultant at Sapient for more than 8 years. There, he worked on a number of projects for a variety of Fortune 500 clients, including GM, Bank of America, Williams Energy, and the USMC. Michael graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in Computer Science, and he started his career as a consultant at Accenture.

Michael lives just outside of Boston with his wife and kids, and he avoids Red Sox traffic by commuting to work via ferry every day.

Before co-founding Buildium in 2004, Dimitris was a technology consultant at Sapient and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he honed his expertise in creating the right team to build excellent products. He’s a native of Greece, and he graduated from Providence College with a degree in Computer Science and Finance.

Dimitris lives just outside of Boston with his wife and kids, and he works from Athens several months out of every year.

Deirdre joins Buildium as Chief Financial Officer, bringing with her over 25 years of broad financial management experience with more than 15 years as a CFO leading fast-growing SaaS companies to profitability. Deirdre has demonstrated an established ability to drive success from strategy development through tactical execution, with a passion for creating community and value for customers and employees, not just shareholders.

Deirdre lives in Boston’s Back Bay and is thrilled that two of her three grown children have moved back here. One more to go!

Ben joins Buildium as our Vice President of Sales, bringing 20 years of technology sales experience to the role. He’s had the opportunity to participate in world-class sales engines with organizations such as Oracle; Kronos; Google; and, most recently, HubSpot, where he was responsible for leading their Corporate North American Sales Team. Ben has a passion for helping sales professionals realize their career goals and inspiring sales organizations to solve problems for their customers.

He holds a B.A. in English from Amherst College. He lives in Boston’s Beacon Hill with his wife, daughter, and Boston Bulldog, Memphis.

Kim is Buildium’s first VP of Customer Success. She brought with her nearly 10 years of experience at Carbonite, where she grew with the company as it went from 15 to 650 people. She holds a B.S. in Math with a minor in Physics from the University of Richmond.

Kim lives north of Boston with her family. She enjoys spending time with her sons, especially if they’re running, skiing, playing soccer, or sailing.

Michelle joins Buildium with more than 15 years of experience across B2B, B2SMB, and B2C marketing and sales. She’s passionate about building teams and growing successful businesses from their early stages. Michelle first fell in love with the plight and passion of hardworking small business owners in her 7 years at Constant Contact. She’s a big believer in the power of innovation and technology to solve real-world problems, and she’s confident that Boston is poised to be the next great tech hub.

Michelle lives with her husband; her son; and her bulldog, Georgia. To get to work every day, she commutes from one end of the Boston Marathon to the other.

Patrick first joined Buildium in 2014, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience in scaling engineering teams, most recently at Healthcaresource and Triumvirate Environmental. In addition to leading Buildium’s engineering team, Patrick recently received his M.B.A. from Bentley University. He also holds a B.A. in Mathematics from St. Anselm College.

Patrick lives with his wife and three kids just outside of Boston. On the weekends, they enjoy hiking with their beagle, Cosmo.

Piyum joins Buildium as Vice President of Product Management, representing the voice of the customer and bringing hands-on experience in implementing agile and product frameworks to help product organizations drive execution. Prior to Buildium, Piyum led the product management team at Constant Contact, and his career includes extensive experience at companies including Sophos and Carbonite, building software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions at scale for small and medium-sized businesses.

When not at work, Piyum enjoys spending time with his wife, daughter, and adopted children: Daisy and Napoleon (both dogs) and Oscar the cat.