LOVELAND is based in Detroit, Michigan and the San Francisco Bay Area with a growing team dedicated to putting America online parcel by parcel. We work with governments, developers, neighborhood groups, and passionate individuals to gather and present information about property in clear, actionable ways.
In Detroit our community missions include arming people with information to battle a plague of tax foreclosures and running an ongoing survey of property conditions to help fight blight.
LOVELAND in the News
Architecture vs. Climate Change: An expert panel, led by ARCHITECT’s Ned Cramer, speaks on combating climate change with design.
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In this subsequent video, Cramer challenged his panel of William McDonough, co-author, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things; Adrian Foley, COO, Brookfield Residential Group, California; Serene Al-Momen, co-founder and CEO, Senseware.co; and Jerry Paffendorf, co-founder and CEO, Loveland Technologies, to explore where innovation fits into action that can transform how the built environment is designed to work.
February 20, 2018
Detroit's Housing Crisis Is the Work of Its Own Government
Vice News
The city overtaxed homeowners for years. Those who couldn’t pay are still feeling the pain.
December 29, 2017
People Are Making Big Money Kicking Detroit Residents Out Of Their Homes
Vice News / HBO
A VICE News HBO piece on Detroit's tax foreclosure problem, including an interview with Loveland CEO, Jerry Paffendorf, at the Loveland office in downtown Detroit
December 07, 2017
Quicken Loans aims to help 65,000 Detroit households avoid tax foreclosure
Detroit Metro Times
Through the "Neighbor to Neighbor" effort, QLCIF and the United Community Housing Coalition will partner with about two dozen community groups and nonprofits to reach some 65,000 Detroit households behind on their taxes by yearend. The door knockers will notify homeowners of assistance available and then point them to upcoming workshops where they can get help applying for the programs.
November 29, 2017
Tech, Open Data Are Crucial in Long-Term Recovery Following Hurricane Harvey
Government Technology
Rosenburg says that with Loveland, his volunteers can go door to door, stand in front of a home, answer a series of questions on a device, and feed accurate information to a database in real time, along with pictures that precisely illustrate damage. SBP can then use that data to direct volunteers, and, perhaps more important, to show governmental response agencies at all levels exactly what’s happening on the ground and who is still in need. Simply put, mapped GIS data is a vital reference.
September 01, 2017
Who owns that house down the street? “Flint Property Portal” goes live with answers
East Village Magazine
Flint residents have a new way to find and report information about properties in the city–from who owns them, to demolition status, to building conditions–thanks to a new website that went live Aug. 21.
August 26, 2017
How Mapping Disasters Can Help Devastated Communities Rally
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Beers said one advantage of using the mapping software is that she can analyze the data in real time, making critical information available to volunteers and other relief organizations almost instantaneously. “They could see the results without me having to take my computer all over town,” she said.
July 12, 2017
Opinion: We can do something to stop tax foreclosures
Detroit Free Press
Auctioning these homes tends to lead to vacancy and dereliction. Eventually, they will need to be demolished. The auction works against three of Duggan’s major goals: grow the population, eliminate blight, and don’t push out poor people.
July 07, 2017
The Team
Jerry Paffendorf, CEO & Co-Founder
Jerry is an American mutt from the forested farmlands of New Jersey who's lived around the country in Portland, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Detroit, where he moved in 2009 and started building what's evolved into LOVELAND Technologies. Jerry dropped out of high school, got turned on by Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" while in art school, and earned a Master of Science in Studies of the Future from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Working at the Acceleration Studies Foundation for two years, Jerry gained a deep view on how each generation of technology builds the next with increasing speed. Jerry gravitated towards the virtual worlds industry where he pioneered many projects and experiments within the Second Life user-created 3D world, and researched convergences between maps, virtual reality, and social networks.
Jerry earned a purple heart in Silicon Valley after co-founding a venture capital-funded company you've never heard of, an experience which made him even more passionate about putting the world online outside of what's currently trendy in the Bay Area.
Detroit has become an endless education and influence for thinking about how information systems can help improve the function of cities, the agency of residents, and the use of physical space. He likes reading books and watching documentaries about all kinds of things, road tripping, running around in circles, and growing LOVELAND into something more and more meaningful all the time.
jerry@landgrid.com · @wello
Mary Carter, COO & Co-Founder
Mary grew up in southeast Michigan, co-founded LOVELAND and has been running operations while wearing 1,000 hats since 2009. Her experience in library science and fine art are both vital to the functioning of this company, as its roots include balancing a mixture of unrestrained creativity while keeping many small things organized.
As LOVELAND grows, Mary plays good cop in making sure everyone on the team is happy and has what they need, and bad cop in making sure that growth happens responsibly and no one gets carried away.
Mary is very active in her neighborhood as the President of the Detroit Dog park in Corktown, a member of the Corktown Business Association, and a board member of the Imagination Station of Roosevelt Park.
mary@landgrid.com · @marylorene
Larry Sheradon, CTO & Co-Founder
Larry began a life of programming and vector graphics as a wee lad, wielding a C compiler and AutoCAD before he was out of elementary school and building web pages as soon there was such a thing. He went on to study algorithms and computer science at the University of Chicago and enjoyed an internship at Argonne National Lab, prototyping visualizations for supercomputers and experimental projector tech.
After moving to San Francisco in 2005 he worked at a boutique geospatial & virtual reality studio, writing 3D rendering engines, spatial databases, and web and mobile apps and honing his skills with GIS tools. In 2008 he took a sabbatical to pursue a fascination with generative art & design, landing a number of gallery showings and performances in SF. This is when he met Jerry and started LOVELAND as a side project. Until going full-time with LOVELAND he engineered at a social networking company, absorbing the arcane lore of web scalability for millions of daily users. Since then, he's been building LOVELAND's web architecture and map interfaces including WDWOT, Site Control and Motor City Mapping.
larry@landgrid.com
Sahana Murthy, Chief Product Officer
Sahana is a product strategist, manager & marketer with extensive experience working with software companies & startups of all sizes across USA & India. She has worked in various industries & technologies ranging from SaaS/PaaS platforms to mobile apps to AI based products.
At Loveland, Sahana manages our product, marketing, growth strategy and the team. Based out of Lake Orion, MI, Sahana is a mom who loves to cook, travel, read & binge watch!
sahana@landgrid.com
Steve Stautzenbach, Chief Revenue Officer
Serving as Chief Revenue Officer for Landgrid, Steve is responsible for driving our growth strategies and client relationships, building a top- performing revenue generation team. Steve brings deep location data and analytics, spatial technologies, and subscription business model experience to the role, having performed executive leadership roles across sales, business development, product management, and marketing for software companies throughout his career. Serving most recently as General Manager of the Location-Based Analytics segment of LightBoxRE (formed with the acquisition of Digital Map Products), Steve's leadership teams have consistently achieved major corporate objectives including IPO, acquisitions, investments from major VCs and PE firms, and profitable growth.
San Diego-based, Steve's outside interests include architecture, historic restoration, basketball, community service, and a good book.
steve@landgrid.com
Matt Hampel, Chief Data Officer
Matt Hampel has worked with nonprofits, newspapers, universities, and other organizations to build tools for the public good. He is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
At Loveland, Matt leads our data team. Before joining Loveland, Matt co-founded the startup LocalData, was a Code for America fellow in Detroit, and worked as a technology project manager at the University of Michigan.
Tiffany Vantino, Community Engagement Coordinator
Tiffany spent several years working in the non-profit world before joining the LOVELAND team. She strongly believes that knowledge is power and wants to connect people with data and tools that will help them make more informed decisions regarding property. She has a MSW in Community Development from Wayne State University and a BA in Anthropology & Psychology from the University of Michigan.
tiffany@landgrid.com
Nick Downer, VP of Software
A long-time resident of Cleveland, Nick started working for Loveland mid-2017 with a background in data analysis and research forged in the crucible of the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. He also spent time working in the fields of community organizing and housing, where he learned the value of property information as a tool in the effort to stabilize neighborhoods.
Nick's current role is to make life good for the growing number of self-serve users who use Loveland products, especially the mapping platform.
nick@landgrid.com
Matthew Klovski, Geographic Data Manager
Matthew works to manage all parcel data gathering and updating here at Loveland, as well as handling the cartographic side of things. He firmly believes that a better understanding of land ownership, both within the US and abroad, can only come from open access to cadastral data. A Metro Detroit native currently based in Philadelphia, he has a MSc in Spatial Data Science and Visualisation from University College London, as well as a B.A in Geography and a B.S in Urban and Regional Planning from Michigan State University.
matthew@landgrid.com
Krista McClure, Executive Assistant
A Michigan transplant, Krista grew up in the Metro Detroit area. It was at the age of nineteen that she, with her partner and son in tow, traveled to Seattle to discover just how evolved our world is courtesy of technology. Krista's passion is rooted in supporting those whose voices aren't heard because an invite wasn't extended to join at the table. Krista is enthusiastic about LOVELAND Technologies efforts to gather and present information about property in clear and actionable ways because transparency, and breaking down the divides, is at the forefront of the work that Krista has established with her small business, Detroit Parent Collective. In Krista's leisure time (what's that?!) she enjoys traveling with her family, working out, gardening, engaging in her community and advocating for equity.
krista@landgrid.com
Blake Girardot, Data & Customer Success Manager
Blake Girardot is an open source software and open data enthusiast. In his previous work with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team he saw first hand how locally organized data collection enabled communities to understand and address local challenges. As a member of Loveland's Data Team, he brings that same passion for community empowerment to his work. He spends his free time outdoors with his wife and dog or at the local makerspace.
blake@landgrid.com
Jonathan Thomas, Sr. Account Executive
Jonathan is a self-motivated and progress driven Account Executive for our sales team. With over 20+ years of selling a mix of SaaS software and an extensive background working with data analytics companies like CoreLogic & LightBox. He has worked with a variety of different industries selling SaaS platforms, APIs and parcel data. At Loveland, Jonathan is responsible for the strategic growth for our existing and new clients. He is an astute problem-solver, capable of prioritizing and managing complex projects with proficiency. Jonathan enjoys brainstorming and coordinating efforts to achieve a common goal. Based out of Dallas, TX, Jonathan loves playing golf, cycling, and anything involving outdoor activities.
jonathan@landgrid.com
Daniel Salvat, Sr. Account Executive
Daniel grew up in the South Florida area and is currently in Miami. An experienced Account Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the Software (SaaS) and supply chain industry. Strong sales professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in International Business and Economics from Florida Atlantic University.
daniel@landgrid.com
Roman Kahler, Solution Engineer
Roman joined the Loveland team in 2020, coming from the renewable energy industry with a background in parcel data and GIS. Growing up in Michigan, he spent a large portion of his childhood reading atlases and tirelessly staring at maps, which led to an obsession with geography from a young age. After studying audio engineering and spanish in college, he found himself working at a recording studio in Nashville before pursuing photography full time, working briefly in Finland as a northern lights tour guide. In his free time he enjoys traveling, photography, restoring vintage axes, playing guitar and piano, winter camping, hockey, looking at maps, backpacking, and snowmobiling. He also helps out on the family farm making large batches of maple syrup every spring. He currently calls Traverse City Michigan home.
roman@landgrid.com
Ray Visser, GIS Analyst
Ray is a digital jack-of-all-trades with a background in media digitization and transfer, and has dabbled in film, radio, journalism, graphic design, photo restoration, and tabletop and video games.
At Loveland, Ray works with the parcel team to keep the dataset neat, tidy, and error-free, while also helping users and potential clients get the most out of Landgrid.
Currently based in Missouri, Ray enjoys cooking, eating, playing games, and constantly bothering two cats and one rabbit.
ray@landgrid.com
Stephen Anderson, Software Developer
Stephen is a Software Engineer passionate about helping people by creating applications that make the world a better place. He currently gets to live out his dream as an engineer on Loveland’s Product Team where he channels his past experience in automation engineering to grow Landgrid and make it a seamless experience for our users.
As a native Houstonian Stephen is a taco connoisseur, he considers himself a minimalism enthusiast, and he enjoys binge-watching too many shows to count.
stephen@landgrid.com
Liz Puhl, Spatial Data Scientist
Based in Minneapolis, Liz comes to Loveland with a background in geography, cartography, GIS, and web application development. As part of the Data Team, she helps make sure the data is as accurate, clean, and easy to work with as possible; she also has a hand in parcel-based cartography projects. In her spare time, she's a tennis player, armchair urban planner, and personal assistant to two high-maintenance cats.
liz@landgrid.com
Pasta "Jacob" Batman, CCO*
Born in an Ohio kill shelter, Pasta has come a long way. He has a strong background in agility, obedience, and sharing your lunch with you. Pasta believes that the creation of a national parcel layer will contribute to conservationist efforts and lead to more places for him to play and explore.
* Chief Canine Officer
The Loveland Army,
Loveland works with an amazing team of advisors and alumni who have contributed to our work over the years who continue to work on projects with us. From programmers to government to policy professionals to community activists, you could say there is a Wu-Tang element to our team, and indeed some have.
The Parcel Team,
Loveland employs a team of dedicated parcel prospectors who work to find and organize data around the country. They are working for you deep in the country's parcel mines, but don't worry, they wear the proper equipment to avoid parcel lung.
