Our Mission
Our mission is simple: to generate the highest possible return for our clients.
While Zurple excels at generating leads, our greater and market differentiating value is our ability to turn a higher percentage of leads into viable opportunities for our clients through use of our proprietary, patent-pending software application.
Zurple began as a lead generation system for one real estate agent in the San Diego residential market. Today, Zurple services thousands of real estate agents in select markets nationwide.
Leadership
Robert Schulte, Chief Executive Officer
Robert Schulte is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience leading successful entrepreneurial ventures from ideation to acquisition. Robert has overall responsibility for formulating, implementing, and executing the strategic plan that advances Zurple's mission, vision and strategic objectives.
Prior to Zurple, Robert was CEO and Founder of Taxcient, a SaaS business focused on providing large scale enterprise clients with mission critical tax compliance applications. While at Taxcient, Robert was the driving force for growing the company through ideation, capital acquisition, go-to-market, growth and eventually a strategic merger. Throughout his career, Robert has served in various senior executive positions including: President and CEO, Chairman, Chief Strategy Officer, VP of Product Management, General Manager and Board Director.
Ryan Owen, Chief Strategy Officer, Co-Founder
Ryan Owen is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Zurple. Prior to Zurple, Ryan ran business development and international operations for Savings.com. His earlier experience includes co-founding a successful residential real estate brokerage and various leadership roles in entrepreneurship and online marketing.
Ryan received his Bachelors of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Lu Saenz, VP of Engineering
Lu leads the software engineering team and is responsible for all software development of Zurple's platform and technology. He has over a decade of experience developing commercially successful products and building highly effective development teams.
Prior to Zurple, Lu directed the product development team at Taxcient, an enterprise focused SaaS company. Under Lu's leadership, the company's flagship product became recognized as best-of-breed in the industry. After a successful sale of the company to Avalara, Lu led the successful integration of the Taxcient technology into Avalara's offerings, generating 1000% growth. Prior to Taxcient, Lu worked as a lead consulting developer at Oracle, delivering large scale enterprise content management products and technology which were implemented by leading organizations in the US, Europe, and Australia. Lu graduated from the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California, with a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and has also taught computer science at the college level.
Marc Staheli, VP of Technical Operations
Marc Staheli, Zurple's Vice President of Technical Operations, brings more than 10 years of technology and leadership experience to Zurple. Prior to Zurple, Marc was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Taxcient, Inc., where he was awarded "SMB Architect of the Year" by the world's leading database company, Oracle.
Marc holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and a Master of Science in Business Administration from San Diego State University.
Carole Cluttey, VP of Client Services
Carole is a technology executive with over 18 years of unique knowledge and expertise from designing, developing, implementing and supporting software applications. She has vast international experience in leveraging business and technology competencies to drive productivity and increase revenue. An award-winning industry professional, Carole brings outstanding client focus to her position as Senior Director of Client Services.
Carole holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the University of South Africa.
Megan Coup, Director of Marketing (SEM)
Megan Coup brings more than 8 years of experience in strategic online and offline marketing management as Zurple's Director of Marketing (SEM). Prior to joining Zurple, Megan managed large-scale paid search and display campaigns for Provide Commerce, a cutting edge group of online gifting companies, and for Fortune 500 clients such as Research in Motion, Adobe, CareerBuilder/Gannett, Intel, Lenovo and others.
Megan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Chatham College.
