Giri Devanur

Giri Devanur is our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Devanur became a member of our board of directors in April 2021 and its Chairman in April 2023.

He is a serial business entrepreneur and an experienced chief executive officer who has been involved in capital planning and investor presentations as an executive officer for various companies. He has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. In October 2020, Mr. Devanur began designing the early AI systems for the “reAlpha” concept, and formed reAlpha Tech Corp. (our former parent company) until April 2021, when he became the Company’s chief executive officer and president. Prior to Mr. Devanur’s involvement with the Company, he co-founded Taazu, Inc. in March 2018, an artificial-intelligence business travel assistant company, which was subsequently sold in March 2021, and in December 2019, Mr. Devanur also co-founded GenDeep, Inc., an investment analysis company, which was eventually dissolved in October 2020 due to COVID-19. Additionally, Mr. Devanur is a member of the board of directors of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd., a public company listed on the National Stock Exchange of India since December 2020, and Saara, Inc., an AI-based e-commerce solutions company, since October 2019.

Mr. Devanur has a master’s degree in Technology Management from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Mysore, India. He has attended Executive Education programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Law School.

The board of directors believes that Mr. Devanur’s decades-long experience in the information technology industry and in positions of leadership in other companies will enable him to bring a wealth of strategic and business acumen to the board of directors.