About

Latch makes spaces better places to live, work, and visit.

Renting physical spaces is the world's oldest subscription service. People spend a lot of money every month for an experience that is outdated, inconvenient, analog, impersonal, and leaves a lot to be desired. Latch is working to make every building better, and while we've methodically executed this mission since our founding with great success, we're just getting started.

Leveraging our knowledge from companies like Apple, BCG, and IDEO, we’ve rethought how people interact with space. Latch delivers a full-building operating system designed to help owners, residents, and third parties like guests, couriers, and service providers seamlessly experience the modern building. We’ve done this by combining software, devices, and services into a holistic platform that make spaces more efficient, enjoyable, and profitable.

At our core we have always been and will always be a product company, and more than half of our employees work in product development roles today.

Values

We approach our work with care and a sense of duty, to make the world a better space.

Contagious Determination

We pursue excellence. Our ability to persevere together allows us to go beyond expectations.

Humility

We believe in the strength of team over self. We embody empathy and respect. When disagreements arise, we communicate and commit.

Trust

Trust is the foundation of every strong relationship. We act and communicate with honesty and care.

Inclusion

We believe in the power of a diverse team. We embrace everyone’s differences and strive to create safe and welcoming spaces for all.

Action with Intent

We have a vision for a better future and a desire to lead the way. We learn as we go and are unafraid of taking deliberate risks while remaining flexible to reach our goals.

Privacy

We believe everyone’s privacy is sacrosanct. We base each decision on our commitment to protect all information shared with us.

Lens into Latch

Meet members of team Latch, and learn how they are living our values, in their own words.

Meet the team

Executive Profiles

Luke Schoenfelder

CEO and Co-founder

Euan Abraham

SVP of Product Design Engineering

David Austin

SVP of Partnerships and Integrations

Ali Hussain

COO

Brian Jones

CTO and Co-founder

Deb Josephs

Chief People Officer

Chris Lee

Chief Revenue Officer

Orla Lucey

SVP of Supply Chain and Manufacturing

Thomas Meyerhoffer

CDO and Co-founder

Garth Mitchell

CFO

Justina Omokhua

CMO

Dhruva Rajendra

Chief Product Officer

Peter Weiss

Chief Real Estate Officer

Luke Schoenfelder

CEO and Co-founder

Luke Schoenfelder is the founder and CEO of Latch. As the chief executive, Luke guides the vision and mission for Latch, helping to create better experiences for everyone at a modern building. Under his guidance, Latch has evolved from an industry-defining smart access company to a powerful software and hardware ecosystem that empowers building owners, property managers, and residents with more flexibility and convenience in how they interact with their space.

From launching Latch’s first access device to partnering with technology leaders like Google Nest, Luke has expertly expanded Latch’s presence in the market. As a partner to the country’s top developers including Brookfield, RXR, and Alliance Residential, Luke guides the Latch team as they continue to develop and deploy comprehensive solutions that surpass customer expectations and continually define the brand as an industry innovator. As a result, Luke’s leadership has helped Latch continually increase its revenue, bringing in more than $319 million in booked revenue since launch.
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Luke has also spearheaded Latch’s fundraising efforts, most recently completing a $126 million Series B round with multiple customers investing in Latch, including Tishman Speyer, Brookfield Ventures, and RxR Realty and leading venture capital firms Camber Creek and Primary Venture Partners.

As a seasoned entrepreneur, Luke has extensive experience reimagining how people interact with their environments. Prior to founding Latch, he partnered with the Clinton Global Initiative and Habitat for Humanity to deploy his modular homes in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. He also founded GridPotential, a company that developed smart electricity meters with built-in SIM cards designed to track energy usage and charge users through their mobile phones, to get people the utilities they needed in underdeveloped environments.
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Prior to founding Latch, Luke spent four years at Apple within the Retail and Worldwide Government Affairs departments, working directly with the executive team, leading sales in the DC metro region, and supporting international market expansion.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University and also holds a Master’s degree from the Imperial College of London, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.

Euan Abraham

SVP of Product Design Engineering

As Senior Vice President of Product Design Engineering at Latch, Euan Abraham oversees Latch’s research and development roadmap, building on the company’s reputation for world-class products and experiences at the intersection of design, technology, and real estate. Euan brings decades of leadership and expertise in designing complex systems from some of the world’s most successful product companies.

Since joining Latch in 2018, Euan has been instrumental in expanding the hardware development teams, both in the US and across Asia. Euan’s leadership has resulted in Latch building multiple, new, ground up development programs and product lines, including the Latch Intercom. Euan has also supported hardware partner programs and smart home integrations like Google Nest and Honeywell.

Prior to Latch, Euan served as Vice President of Hardware Engineering at GoPro, where he oversaw the development of the company’s Hero cameras, Karma drone, and accessory product lines. Prior to GoPro, Euan was the Head of Mechanical Engineering at Tyto Life, the maker of the Otto smart lock.

Earlier in his career, Euan served as a Senior Product Design Engineer at Apple. During his time at Apple, Euan worked to design, prototype, and deliver numerous generations of Apple hardware to consumers, and he is named inventor on patents tied to the Macbook Air, SSD Macbooks, Macbook Pro Touch Bar, Keyboard Mechanisms, Wireless Keyboard, iMac, and several other products.

He also had held positions at Ditech Communications, Burton Snowboards, and Nokia.

Euan holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Sheffield.

David Austin

SVP of Partnerships and Integrations

As Senior Vice President of Partnerships and Integrations at Latch, David Austin oversees the product development that shapes Latch’s expanding ecosystem of software, hardware, and services. David has spent his career bringing multiple successful software and hardware solutions to market for some of the world’s leading product companies, including Apple and PCH.

David has played a pivotal role in expanding Latch’s ecosystem since joining the team in 2019. His work led to the launch of the Works with Latch program, which expands the reach of the LatchOS ecosystem through integrations ranging from ePMS providers like Yardi and RealPage, unattended lease providers like Pynwheel and Tour24, and smart home integrations like Google Nest and Honeywell.

He also has worked to standardize the development process for both software and hardware products, allowing the team to bring ambitious new products to market more quickly, and oftentimes partners with Latch customers to develop custom software integrations. As a leader of Latch’s Committee to Combat Systemic Racism, David has also played a significant role in defining the company’s values and is a champion for creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.

Prior to joining Latch, David was an active angel investor and startup advisor. He served as the General Manager of Startup Services at PCH International, where he invested in product-focused startups. David met the early Latch team when they participated in an accelerator program led by TechStars and R/GA Ventures. As an advisor to the program, he helped Latch’s co-founders develop the first products and supply chain, and invested in Latch’s seed round.

David spent more than 17 years in product development and corporate strategy at Apple. There, he led a team of 200+ engineers, designers, system administrators, project and program managers, and the development of hardware and software products including Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iCal, Final Cut Pro, and Newton. He also led Apple’s acquisition of multiple companies, assets, and development teams.

He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.

Ali Hussain

COO

Ali Hussain is the Chief Operating Officer at Latch, and leads all business and operations across the organization. Throughout his career, Ali has developed and delivered technology-driven business services and solutions, provided outstanding client service, and driven scalable revenue growth.

As head of the Sales, Operations, People Ops, and Business Operations organizations, Ali directs and executes Latch’s business strategy. Ali’s efforts have resulted in Latch’s booked revenue increasing from 49%, from $112 million in 2019 to $167 million in 2020, and Latch working with 7 of the national Multi-Housing Council’s top 10 developers.

Since joining the team in 2015, Ali has also helped scale Latch’s hiring teams to bring top talent to the organization, growing from a small team with a single office in New York City to a company of more than 200 employees with a global presence, including offices in San Francisco and Taipei. Ali has nurtured a strong team of functional leaders throughout the organization, creating a thriving culture of cross-functional innovation and collaboration.

Prior to joining Latch, Ali served as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked to merge two firms in the logistics space, helped optimize the Asia-based supply chain for an industrials company, and trained enterprise sales teams.

Ali previously worked at Google as an analyst on the M&A team working on new product initiatives. He has also worked at the Brookings Institute and the US House of Representatives.

He is a Marshall Scholar, and holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Oxford.

Brian Jones

CTO and Co-founder

Brian Jones is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Latch. He has overseen the development of the cutting-edge technology that powers Latch’s entire hardware and software ecosystem from the very start.

Brian leads all of Latch’s technical teams including software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, and robotics, totaling more than 80 engineers. His work building a technological foundation based on the idea of unifying access control for businesses—by applying a modern web application-type framework—has empowered Latch to quickly scale in an industry ripe for technological disruption. Under Brian’s management, as Latch’s innovation has scaled, so too has its broad patent portfolio spanning security, privacy, and wireless technologies.

In addition, Brian is responsible for the development and delivery of Latch’s products and services, and manages the Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Reliability, and Security teams. Together, they have built and delivered hundreds of thousands of units across Latch’s hardware portfolio, and built the software and firmware solutions that connect it all in one seamless experience: LatchOS.

Prior to Latch, Brian oversaw technology architecture initiatives, solution development, and testing with companies including GridPotential. His expertise centered on building remote data acquisitions systems and deployed hardware fleets that were deployed to serve some of the world’s most challenging technical environments. From smart grid monitoring in Haiti to remote soil sensing in Mexico, Brian has built products that capture, synthesize, and present data to a wide variety of enterprise customers.

Brian holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology

Deb Josephs

Chief People Officer

Deb Josephs is the Chief People Officer at Latch, where she leads the People team and oversees the Latch employee experience, HR strategy, and Learning & Development, with a focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts.

Deb brings her extensive experience of implementing best practices in talent acquisition, leadership and executive development, diversity, succession planning, organizational design, and HR strategy to Latch.
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Prior to joining Latch, Deb served as the first Chief People Officer at Ampersand, where she built the HR team from the ground up, including robust Learning & Development and DEI programs. Deb also served as the Chief People Officer at IAC Applications, a division of IAC, where she led the HR efforts of multiple international acquisitions and subsequent workforce integrations.
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Previously, Deb was a member of the executive teams that led eXelate through its acquisition by Nielsen and DoubleClick through its acquisition by Google. Earlier in her career, Deb held senior Human Resources positions at the McGraw-Hill Companies, Ogilvy & Mather, The Bank of New York, NASD/Nasdaq, and NatWest Bank.
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Deb holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business at CUNY- Baruch College.

Chris Lee

Chief Revenue Officer

Chris Lee is the Chief Revenue Officer at Latch, where he leads the Key Accounts, Field Sales, and Revenue Operations departments, driving the sustained performance and infrastructure driving Latch’s ever-increasing market penetration.

With more than two decades of experience driving revenue and scaling sales organizations in high-growth, category-defining SaaS businesses, Chris brings a wealth of knowledge, best practices, and his proprietary enterprise sales methodology to Latch.

Prior to joining Latch, Chris served as Chief Revenue Officer at Reputation.com, where he restructured the sales organization and quickly doubled their ARR. Before joining Reputation.com, he served as EVP of Global Sales at FinancialForce where he managed a 130-person sales team and drove 40% YoY sales growth for two consecutive years.

Previously, as Docusign’s VP and GM of North America Sales, Chris scaled the company’s global sales operation, and secured blue-chip customers including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citi. Chris also spent a decade at Salesforce.com, rising to a VP of Enterprise Sales, where he was instrumental in scaling the global sales organization from an annual revenue of $50 million to more than $4 billion.

Chris is the author of the sales methodology “P.O.W.E.R,” which he has leveraged for years to ensure sales cycle process and alignment, at companies including Salesforce.com, DocuSign, and Reputation.com.
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Chris holds degrees in both Economics and Communications from Villanova University where he was a member of the varsity football team and the ODE National Economics Honor Society.

Orla Lucey

SVP of Supply Chain and Manufacturing

As Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing at Latch, Orla Lucey plays a pivotal role in overseeing the demand planning, manufacturing, and quality of Latch’s hardware products from end-to-end.

With more than two decades of supply chain and manufacturing experience, Orla has spent her career working for some of our time’s most innovative brands and honing her experience in sourcing, logistics, order fulfillment, and demand planning around the world.

Prior to joining Latch, Orla oversaw global supply chain at August Home from early-stage startup through acquisition by Assa Abloy. During her nearly six-year tenure, she was responsible for managing the entire supply chain along with manufacturing and quality, sales operations, and fulfillment and demand planning for all of the brand’s smart home products. She also played a vital role in supporting the company as it partnered with Wal-Mart, Airbnb, and Amazon.

Previously, Orla managed supply chain at Livescribe, a smartpen start-up that develops software-powered pens and paper to streamline the digitization of analog notes and audio recordings. After beginning her career at Maxwell Europe, she spent 10 years on the supply chain team at Analog Devices, a leader in the design and manufacturing of analog, mixed-signal, and DSP integrated circuits.

Orla holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Ireland, and a Master’s in Business Administration from San Francisco State University.

Thomas Meyerhoffer

CDO and Co-founder

Thomas Meyerhoffer is a co-founder and the Chief Design Officer at Latch, where he leverages his experience as a designer, innovator, and entrepreneur to blend the best of form and function in Latch’s industry-leading product design.

As a creator of some of the most remarkable, innovative sports and technology products of our time—like the translucent Apple eMate and his hourglass-shaped surfboards—Thomas’s designs are used by people all around the world everyday.

As head of design at Latch, Thomas and his team oversee the industrial and product design of Latch’s suite of software, hardware, and service products that power LatchOS. Under Thomas’s leadership, Latch products have received ten international design awards and counting.

Prior to joining Latch, Thomas was a senior designer at Apple, and a designer at IDEO.

During the last 20 years, Thomas has also designed iconic products for global brands ranging from Porsche and Coca Cola, to Cappellini and NEC through his eponymous design studio.

Thomas is the recipient of a wide range of design awards and patents. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Outside Magazine, The Surfer’s Journal, and in exhibitions at The Cooper Hewitt and London Design Museum.

Garth Mitchell

CFO

Garth Mitchell is the Chief Financial Officer at Latch. He leads all financial, accounting, and investor relations across the organization. With more than a decade of investment banking, corporate finance, and technology investing experience, Garth has a diverse background and a deep strategic understanding of what it takes to scale a company to ensure long-lasting growth.
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At Latch, Garth has overseen the development and actualization of the modularity of the LatchOS ecosystem, creating pricing and strategies to best serve our customers and drive return for shareholders. He has also been a critical part of helping organize internal operations to focus on new revenue streams and growth in new markets and categories.
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Prior to joining Latch, Garth led a variety of private and public investments in the tech, media, and telecom sectors at Lucus Advisors. Garth also served on the committee driving brand acquisitions and entrances into new markets at Assembled Brands, the holding company launched by Adam Pritzker to invest in the next generation of disruptive consumer brands.
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Previously, Garth ran diligence on more than thirty internet and software IPOs at Millennium Partners, where he developed a deep understanding of how rapidly growing businesses scale operations. He has also held roles at Lazard, where he participated in numerous landmark real estate restructurings including that of Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town.
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Garth is a graduate of Morehouse College.

Justina Omokhua

CMO

Justina Omokhua is the Chief Marketing Officer at Latch, where she leads the Marketing team and oversees the brand’s growth and development.
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Justina brings her extensive experience building brands and shaping culture to Latch.
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Prior to joining Latch, Justina led brand marketing at Endeavor, working across and creating synergy between 50+ businesses in the Endeavor portfolio including WME and IMG to drive awareness and revenue. As Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing, Justina oversaw all marketing operations for Endeavor, including strategic planning and developing the marketing strategy for Endeavor’s IPO.
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Previously, Justina served as Global Head of Content and Lifestyle Strategy at Apple, where she was responsible for all marketing efforts to acquire and retain users and build the brand across the Apple Services suite of businesses, including Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Books, Apple Podcasts, and Apple News. Earlier in her career, Justina worked on the marketing teams at some of the world’s biggest brands, including Verizon, Nokia, Pepsi, and L’Oreal.
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Justina holds an undergraduate degree from York University and an MBA from Rutgers University.

Dhruva Rajendra

Chief Product Officer

Dhruva Rajendra is a co-founder and the Chief Product Officer at Latch, where he oversees the entire product organization as they expand LatchOS’s growing ecosystem with new software, hardware, and service products that combine Latch’s iconic design with an intuitive user experience. Throughout his career, Dhruva has built a track record of product excellence via thoughtful, trustworthy products across a range of industries experiencing rapid digital disruption.
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As a co-founder of Latch, Dhruva was instrumental to Latch’s initial products and roadmap. Since rejoining the team in 2020, Dhruva led a reorganization designed to focus more of Latch’s resources on each of LatchOS’s core offerings, resulting in greater operational efficiency, transparency, and collaboration across the product and engineering organizations.
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Prior to rejoining Latch, Dhurva served as CEO of Fast Rope Labs, a global product strategy consultancy. There, he helped Fortune 100 companies develop a start-up mentality for their product organizations—while simultaneously helping startups scale their product organizations like Fortune 100 companies. Under his leadership, Fast Rope Labs shipped and scaled dozens of products across real estate, fintech, healthcare, and education that are used by millions on a daily basis.
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Previously, Dhruva served as Head of Product at Main Street Genome, a software company that optimizes restaurant operations through data-driven insights. Earlier in his career, he worked in strategy consulting for clients including Qualcomm, Alarm.com, and UnitedHealth Group.
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He is a graduate of Wake Forest University.

Peter Weiss

Chief Real Estate Officer

Peter Weiss is the Chief Real Estate Officer at Latch, where he is in charge of educating the real estate community about Latch, co-leading the business organization, and driving top of funnel leads to fuel Latch’s growth. Throughout his career, Peter has been actively involved as principal and advisor in complex commercial real estate transactions in excess of $3 Billion.

As the first real estate executive at Latch, Peter has built a business unit tasked with external education, business development initiatives, and lead generation. In addition, he focuses on raising strategic capital, and helping Latch to expand into new verticals. Since joining in 2018, he has developed relationships with the most senior stakeholders at Latch’s largest customers, resulting in more than $200 million in pipeline. His expertise has also helped win several of the largest deals in Latch history totaling more than $75 million of booked revenue.

Prior to joining Latch, Peter was a Managing Director at Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group, a real estate capital advisory company, where he led strategic capital allocation efforts for many of the country's largest real estate firms. Before Ackman-Ziff, Peter served as the Chief Investment Officer at Capital Properties where he led the firm’s acquisitions, finance, joint venture pursuits, fund raising, as well as the firm’s day-to-day asset management efforts.

Peter earned a M.S.E. in Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a M.S. in Real Estate Finance from New York University. He sits on the Urban Land Institute’s Technology and Real Estate Council and the Real Estate Board of New York.

Fields of Expertise

Latch's diverse team leverages established expertise in more than 55 professional disciplines, including:

Life at Latch

“At Latch, you will have the opportunity to wear many hats and try new things. If you want experience in areas outside your main role, the team is always willing to work with you to make that happen. Projects move quickly so you’ll get to work on many interesting things even in a short period of time. Technical and professional development comes naturally because you are tasked with meaningful work and there are always huge learning opportunities. In my four years at Latch, I have never been bored and am always excited to see what’s next!”

Sarah Plis

Staff Mechanical Engineer

“My favorite part of my job is collaborating with my colleagues. I’ve never had such a diverse set of peers–software, design, product, manufacturing, recruiting...the list goes on. I’m constantly learning from them, and their high level of care shows in the products we ship."

Parker Oka-Wong

Senior Software Engineer

"Here at Latch, we’re not only socially mindful, but proactive about it. I can confidently sign onto work each day, and bring my best to the table without worrying about the uncertainty of the world, or our representation in it. Pair that with an encouragement to use cutting-edge cloud technologies among a pool of diverse thought leaders, and you end up with a pretty special workplace"

Dom Zanardi

Software Engineer, Security

"The level of conviction the company has to its employees, and the causes we care about, helps to create a unique culture that allows for all of us to be our best selves while delivering the best products to our customers!"

Sammy Abdu

Program Manager, Hardware

Diversity

Latch is committed to having a team that reflects the society in which we work. To hold ourselves accountable, we are actively prioritizing and investing in organization-wide initiatives focused on the following pillars of our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts:

Recruiting new team members that are representative of our society's diversity.

Hire and promote leaders to ensure that diverse perspectives are reflected in Latch’s most meaningful decisions.

Training team members on how to create an inclusive and safe workspace, so that all employees feel truly welcome to be themselves at Latch. This includes a diversity, equity, inclusion review, support of our team member-led Committee to Combat Systemic Racism, and conscious inclusion training for our entire team.

Fostering a culture that considers health, happiness, diversity, and inclusion for the long term, including clear opportunities for career advancement and professional growth.

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Latch's global headquarters is located in New York City, with additional offices in San Francisco and Taipei.

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