Rob is the Chairman of Reconstruct and a seasoned business executive with over 25 years of experience as a consultant, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Rob is a Managing Partner with Serra Ventures and Serra Capital. Prior to joining Serra Ventures, Rob was a Managing Director at Illinois Ventures, and is a founding member of the Illinois Emerging Technology Funds. At Illinois Ventures, Rob helped start and fund companies that commercialized technology invented at the University of Illinois. He was the founding investor of ShareThis, the largest sharing network in the world. While at IllinoisVentures, he helped grow the firm from start-up to $70 million under management. Earlier in his career, Rob was the founder and CEO of DigitalWork, Inc., a SaaS based marketing automation company. As CEO, Rob led the company in building an award-winning service, raising substantial funding from top-tier venture firms, leading the Company through an IPO process, hiring over 140 talented employees, acquiring over 10,000 customers and developing partnerships with such leading companies as AOL, Dell, Office Depot, and Wells Fargo. Rob began his career as a consultant with McKinsey and Company and Deloitte.

As Reconstruct’s CEO, Zak is responsible for achieving company success by creating elated customers, employees, and shareholders. Zak developed expertise in construction technology while he was the COO/CRO of Buildup Technologies. His early stage business development work with Financial Engines laid the groundwork for the company’s IPO and its $2B market cap today. He learned operational excellence during his time with Samsung. He also has over a decade management consulting experience with LEK, SyncDev, and Accelerev working with venture capital-backed startups. Zak has an MBA from Stanford and an AB from Harvard in Economics. He loves Bootcamp Tough Mudders, Laphraoig, playing the flute/sax, and coaching his children’s sports activities.

During his 15 years in the industry, Mani designed and built commercial buildings, infrastructure systems, and port facilities in the U.S. and abroad. With a PhD in Civil Eng from Univ. of Illinois, Mani’s research has contributed to developing computer vision and BIM solutions to empower project teams better plan, coordinate, and communicate on their jobsites. Mani is now leveraging his amazing exposure to the most creative people in construction, technology, and academic worlds to improve productivity of the construction industry as a whole.