Maya Sachdeva currently focuses on staffing for the real estate and PropTech industries. Prior to HWES, she worked in strategy and operations at Zillow. Her work involved product operations, process development/design, cost-benefit analysis, data projection/forecasting, market sizing, valuing business opportunities, creating operational efficiencies and scaling programs. She is skilled in project management, client relationships, and business development. Before Zillow, Maya was a consultant in the residential real estate industry, where she specialized in launching new communities and providing solutions for existing communities. She has led consulting engagements in the Central region comprised of Texas and the Midwest as well as Atlanta, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She authored a blog, genYration, which details experiences of millennial home buyers. Her research on millennial home owners has been published in the Houston Business Journal. Maya graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a double major in Urban Planning and Political Science.

Teacher, researcher, and service provider to the home building industry. I have the honor of teaching and mentoring the next generation of leaders in the construction industry.

Ralph Baja has focused on delighting customers before and after the sale as a leader within regional and national homebuilding organizations for nearly 18 years. As the national director of customer relations and process improvement, Ralph has reinvented how Century Communities looks at the customer relationship lifecycle and how they measure and improve the customer experience. Ralph joined Century Communities in August 2017 when the company merged with UCP and its wholly owned subsidiary, Benchmark Communities. At Benchmark, Ralph played a similar role as a national director for four years. Between 2014 and 2018, Ralph enabled Century and Benchmark to earn 65 Homebuyers’ Choice Awards from customer experience management firm Eliant. Century Communities is in the running for another 10 awards this year, and in 2018, Ralph was selected as Eliant’s first American Customer Experience Leader of the Year. According to Eliant, the award was in recognition of his “extraordinary leadership in consistent delivery of a memorable customer experience” and how “he is shaping the future direction of the industry and culture of customer service excellence.” Previously, Ralph was vice president of customer relations and process improvement for Pulte Homes, having worked his way up from a community-level position to leader of the Northern California and Nevada region. He was with the company for nearly 11 years. Prior to entering the homebuilding industry, Ralph served as an officer in the United States Navy. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy with a bachelor’s in computer science.

Brek stepped onto his first construction site at 5 years old with his father. He's on a mission to reshape the construction industry by empowering the next generation and people who boot up and build our world.  Solving the #1 issue that over 85% of construction companies are facing — finding skilled trades, Hammr is a professional network that enables construction businesses and professionals to build their brand, connect, collaborate, inspire and hire. A focal point for bridging the next generation of trades.  Hammr's crafted network helps the trades of construction build their reputation and connect with the builders of the world –a network and labor marketplace for construction.  Builders of Insta the leading construction and building-related community on social.  Brek is in the 2020 class of Pro Builder's 40 under 40, a panelist at the International Builders' Show and Hammr is a top 25 finalist in the 2020 Ivory Prize. The Ivory Prize recognizes innovators seeking to make housing more affordable across three distinct categories: finance, construction and design, and public policy and regulatory reform.