Ross Buhrdorf
CEO of ZenBusiness Inc.
Ross Buhrdorf
CEO of ZenBusiness Inc.
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2016 - Current
Legal status monitoring Free notification service that informs you when your company’s legal status is at risk. Obtain the legal status of your company and work with our experts to easily fix problems. New company registration Don’t expose yourself to unnecessary risk when filing for a new business with the Secretary of State. Incorporate your business with our expert staff and get your company started on the right foot. Benefits of representation As your registered agent, we keep you in business by keeping you legal. We enable you to meet the legal requirement of accepting legal documents from the State during business hours.
Board Member
2015
American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX), one of the oldest and largest independently owned banks in Texas, has been ranked 9th in The Dallas Morning News’ Top 100 Places to Work in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) within the large employer category. This marks the sixth consecutive year for the bank to receive recognition as one of the Top 100 Places to Work in DFW.
Member of the Board of Trustees
2012
The Santa Fe Institute is a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center, founded in 1984, where leading scientists grapple with some of the most compelling and complex problems of our time. Researchers come to the Santa Fe Institute from universities, government agencies, research institutes, and private industry to collaborate across disciplines, merging ideas and principles of many fields -- from physics, mathematics, and biology to the social sciences and the humanities -- in pursuit of creative insights that improve our world. The Institute's scientific and educational missions are supported by philanthropic individuals and foundations, forward-thinking partner companies, and government science agencies.
Partner / Mentor / Investor
2012
Capital Factory’s mission is to be Austin’s center of gravity for entrepreneurs. Last year 32,000 entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gathered day and night for meetups, classes and coworking. You should come to Capital Factory to: - Hone your skills at meetups and hackathons - Find your co-founder - Build a Minimum Viable Product - Meet your first angel investors and VCs - Find lighthouse customers - Keep your costs low - Grow your team - Quit your job and become an entrepreneur.
Member Board of Directors
2013 - 2015
Time at the bach is one of our most honoured traditions in New Zealand and most Kiwis have fond memories of times spent with family and friends at their bach - or someone elses. With over 50,000 baches and over 14,000km of coastline it’s just “what we do” in summer. The Bookabach website went live in October 2000, and since then has built one of New Zealand’s largest communities of bach (holiday home) owners and renters. It is now New Zealand’s most trusted resource for finding and securing private accommodation. Our goal is to provide access to Godzone’s finest baches and holiday homes, apartments and other self-contained private accommodation.
Chief Technology Officer
2005 - 2015
Ross Buhrdorf joined HomeAway shortly after its inception to oversee technology, trust and security, hosting, corporate IT, infrastructure and global customer systems. While at HomeAway Buhrdorf has assembled the development and engineering team from five employees to over 200 hundred employees world-wide. Buhrdorf was an integral piece in the integration of multiple technology systems that contribute to the company’s rapid growth.
Board Member
2013 - 2015
Nuve security solutions protect your valuable fuel and cargo – proactively, continuously and aggressively – from loading point to destination, anywhere in the world.
VP Development
2004 - 2005
VP of Software Development. Company acquired by Inovis.
CTO / VP Development at Salion, Inc
2000 - 2004
* Built an Enterprise CRM solution for supply side manufacturing. Austin Ventures and McKinsey & Company founded Salion based on McKinsey research in the area of complex manufacturing. * Staffed the development team from the ground up. Lead the design and architecture of the product. Built the development process and high quality culture that has warranted a case study by Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute and Rational Corporation. * Responsible for building the Enterprise class product from the first line of code to the full-featured product it is today. * Key leader of the executive team building out the product as well as the business model. Played a key role in developing all the components of Salions business model. * Innovative software product line approach to mass customization is the key to our ability to scale customizations that enterprise customers demand. This approach broke the mold for enterprise customization and avoided the SAP like toolkit trap.
VP of Engineering at Excite@Home
1997 - 2000
Built the Communities area of Excite from 53,000 daily page views to 40,000,000 daily page views as one of the first 100 employees at Excite. Managed a team of 90 engineers in Austin, Seattle, Boulder and Redwood City California. Staff included SW, QA, Production, 7X24 Operations, Product Management and Customer Support. Built the team from 1 person to its peak size of 90.§ Site Manager for the Austin and Seattle offices. Responsible for all aspects of the 34 products launched in my area at Excite. Managed everything from concept to retirement of the product. Built scalable systems that handled the load required by the Excite network. Technical leader for multiple company acquisitions and all technology selections.