Vision
Real Estate For Everyone
Mission
To enable every human to be a homeowner
Finally, a chance for everyone to get into real estate. That’s homeownership without the life-altering sacrifices of homeownership.
The hottest real estate deals are usually out of reach for everyday people. We’re changing the game so that literally everyone has a chance to get into the market by investing with addy.
Making real estate investing available to everyone is what excites and unites our team of real estate experts, entrepreneurs, and technologists. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to become a homeowner through access to real estate investing at any amount, regardless of income, age, or other conflicts.
Our Promises
Absolute Accessibility
We offer everyone a chance at homeownership. When anyone can invest in a property for any dollar amount, everyone has a chance to get into the market.
Hands-off Ownership
We remove the unexpected headaches that come with homeownership. From contracts to closing, from being a landlord to juggling maintenance—we handle all the details, so owners can just pick an address and go.
Expert Co-owners
We’re in this together, both as investors and expert partners. Not only do we share the risk by investing alongside you, we will offer a robust selection of properties that have been pre-vetted by experts with decades of experience.
Tangible Investing
By investing in real estate and land, owners are investing in something real that they can drive by, point to, and follow updates to see how it’s doing. This is an investment you’ll be proud to own!
Everyone is Welcome
Our mission at addy – to enable everyone to become a homeowner – reflects the fundamental principle that everyone is welcome. We aspire to nurture a diverse team not only in gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and age, but also in cultural backgrounds, life experiences, thoughts and ideas.
“As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, building a culture of inclusion, diversity, and financial equality, inside and outside of the company is very close to my heart. This will continue to live at the forefront of our business.” – Michael Stephenson, addy CEO.
Our Squad
Alon Sabi
Head of Engineering
Chris Ryan
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Dana Ramnarine
Talent Acquisition
Isaac Forsland
Videographer
Katie Kernahan
VP Marketing | Communications
Kerry Zhu
Software Engineer in Test
Meet Kerry (coming soon!)
Marvin Wong
Analyst
Michael Stephenson
CEO | Co-Founder
Mitch Jarvi
Account Executive, Real Estate
Nik Cheng
Product Manager
Rajib Rahman
Software Engineer in Test
Raymond Lin
Software Engineer
Sean Ty
Finance
Sholeh Atash
Operations Director
Meet Sholeh (coming soon!)
Sophie Zhao
Product Designer
Meet Sophie (coming soon!)
Stephen Jagger
CRO | Co-founder
Sahil Khaleque
Community
Meet Sahil (coming soon!)
Mohamed Abdir
Community
Meet Mohamed (coming soon!)
Our Board of Directors & Advisors
Jeff Booth
Chairperson | Co-Founder
Entrepreneur, Advisor, Author, Angel Investor, Technology Leader, Co-Founder & Former CEO BuildDirect Technologies. 2015 BC Technology Industry Association’s (BCTIA) Person of the Year, 2016 Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.
Keith Spencer
Director
IT Lawyer at Fasken Martineau, retired Co-Leader of the firm’s Start-Up & Emerging Company Services Group, recipient of The BC Tech Association’s “Bill Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award”
Pascal Spothelfer
Director
President & CEO Of Genome BC. He has held several senior roles, in both Europe and Canada, across industry sectors. His experience spans general and change management to broad based stakeholder relations. Pascal holds a law degree and a PhD in law.
Steve Evans
Director
President of Sunstone Realty Advisors and Co-Founder and former CEO of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust founded in 2007 and traded on the TSX; sold to Blackstone in 2018 for $3.8B)
Michael Stephenson
Director | Co-Founder
Visionary, Entrepreneur, Co-Founder addy, Payroll Hero, Ubertor (Acquired in 2013), and Combustion Hosting (Acquired in 2006).
Stephen Jagger
Director | Co-founder
Entrepreneur, Speaker, Author, Investor. Co-Founder addy, Payroll Hero, Ubertor (Acquired in 2013), and Combustion Hosting (Acquired in 2006).
Thuan Pham
Advisor | Technology
Former Chief Technology Officer at Uber. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering at VMware, Westbridge, and DoubleClick. He holds a BS in computer science and engineering and an MS in EE/CS from MIT.
Vikram Dhir
Advisor | Securities Law
Partner at Koffman Kalef LLP, a law firm focused on business law and litigation with significant strength and experience in tax, securities and corporate finance, senior banking, commercial real estate transactions and development, intellectual property, international trade and mergers and acquisitions.
Our Community Real Estate Investment Committee
Andrew Gaucher
Vice President, McKinley Beach, GGroup
Andrew brings over 10 years experience with a creative perspective and strong communications skills to real estate and land development, affording a unique approach to launching and executing development projects. Since establishment, GGroup has developed in excess of $350 million in real estate and is proud of the success of its landmark project, McKinley Beach
Marc Strongman
CEO | President, The Strongman Group
Marc has a substantial depth of experience to every facet of the real estate investment business. The Strongman Group owns and manages over $200 million in assets consisting primarily of commercial retail shopping centres and free standing buildings throughout Western Canada, Ontario and Quebec.
Rajvinder Khatar
RBC Executive | icbc director
Rajvinder has held various leadership roles in the financial services industry including 10 years within Residential Financing. Currently, he is the Vice President, Group Advantage with RBC Royal Bank focusing on Company Group Retirement/Savings Plans & Pensions. He also serves on the Board of Directors for ICBC where he sits on the Investment Committee as well as the Operations & Technology Committee.
Steve Saretsky
Realtor | Host ‘The Saretsky Show’
Steve is widely considered a thought leader in the industry with regular appearances on BNN, CBC, CKNW, CTV and a contributor to BC Business Magazine. Steve’s dedication to analyzing the stats, financial landscape, and policies affecting Vancouver Real Estate have allowed him to build a successful business while working with and providing advisory services to investment advisors, financial institutions, policy makers and Real Estate developers. Steve hosts ‘The Saretsky Show’, and authors the popular “Saretsky Report“.
Tamara Stone
Realtor | Founder, Stone sisters group
A licensed Realtor since 1995, and has had vast market experience with buying and selling opportunities. She enjoys sharing her knowledge about those experiences and has spoken at the RE/MAX South America conference in Argentina as well as at the RE/MAX International conference.
Tri Quach
Entrepreneur | Investor
Tri currently utilizes over 16 years of Management and Entrepreneurship experience in various roles and industries in Agriculture, Real Estate, Transportation, and Logistics. He is a licenced CFIA and USFDA trades specialist. With a strong desire for community involvement, Tri previously interned at the Canadian Red Cross and held a Directorship role with the Willoughby Residents Association.
Our Partners
Our Auditing Partner
KPMG Canada offers professional services for businesses across industries, and one of the Big Four accounting organizations.
Our Legal Partner
Fasken is one of the largest business law firms in Canada with more than 700 lawyers and agents in ten offices on four continents.