Announcement • Apr 10
TAP Real Estate Technologies, Inc. Announces the Appointment of Jeff Jarrard as Chief Technology Office
TAP Real Estate Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Jeff Jarrard as Chief Technology Officer, where he will lead the buildout and development of TAPRealEstate.com, the company’s residential platform focused on homeowner reporting, property valuation, and cloud-based home management. The TAPRealEstate.com platform is being developed to deliver a more automated, self-directed, and data-driven experience for the ownership, management, valuation, and transaction of real estate. Jeff brings over two decades of experience building artificial intelligence, large-scale data, and cloud systems at companies such as Microsoft and Washington Mutual. He spent more than twelve years at Microsoft in senior roles across applied AI, data science and product management, supporting core platforms including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, and contributing to significant market share growth at Microsoft Bing. His work focused on AI-driven product development and large-scale data infrastructure, across systems serving hundreds of millions of users globally, and he was a co-author on patents at Microsoft. He began his career at Washington Mutual Bank, where he led retail banking analytics across one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, building foundational systems for performance optimization, customer insights, and transaction analysis at national scale. Mr. Jarrard holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Utah, an MBA in Econometrics and Quantitative Finance from the University of Washington School of Business, and a Master of Science in Data Science from Northwestern University, combining deep expertise in financial systems, statistical modeling, and machine learning. At TAP Real Estate, Jeff will focus on building the TAPRealEstate.com platform and supporting technology designed to help modernize the world’s largest asset class by enabling more technology-driven workflows across real estate valuation, ownership, and transactions. His work will support long-term initiatives around buying, listing, personalized management, and the trading of real estate assets through programmable infrastructure. Mr. Jarrard will work closely with Adam Wolfe, who will serve as Blockchain Lead at TAP Real Estate and is a co-author of TAP Inc.’s patent for blockchain currency transfer, valid through 2041. Mr. Wolfe brings experience from companies such as Qualcomm and will help integrate the TAP technology stack for real estate.