Robert Reffkin

ROBERT REFFKIN is a husband, a father, and the founder and CEO of Compass, a real estate technology company that is now the largest independent brokerage in America, having helped clients buy and sell homes worth more than a quarter-trillion dollas since its founding. Reffkin graduated from Columbia in two and a half years, earned an MBA from Columbia Business School, and worked at McKinsey, Lazard, and Goldman Sachs. He ran fifty marathons, one in each US state, to raise $1 million for charities-- including America Needs You, the nonprofit he founded to serve young people living below the poverty line who are the first in their families to go to college.