Contraca

Justin Gelwicks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-gelwicks/

Venture/Role: Co-Founder & CEO

Academic: Lehigh University Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program Class of 2023: Construction Management, Real Estate, Finance, Architecture. Winner of over 25 merit scholarships and pitch competitions.

MIT Masters of Real Estate Class of 2025: 4x merit scholarship/fellowship recipient:

Blake Eagle Fellowship, MIT CRE Merit Scholarship, Thomas J. Watch Memorial Fund

recipient, PREA Scholarship. Youngest student in masters cohort. MIT men’s lacrosse

team midfielder. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Competition winner, MIT Sandbox

winner, MIT $100k Pitch Competition finalist.

Professional: Commercial real estate brokerage for CBRE and JLL, both landlord and tenant side. Built the largest wood lacrosse stick company in the U.S. in two years starting at age 18. 6+ years experience running both product-based and tech-based companies.

Personal: Built a sprinter van RV and lived in it for the past year while running other ventures: loves to hike, ski, and mountain bike. Loves fine woodworking and is proficient in most trades.

Patrick Timons (exited)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-timons-62508b1a9/

Venture/Role: Co-Founder & CTO

Academic: MIT class of 2025: Course 6-4 with foci in Software Engineering and the science of Machine Learning. Senior on the Men’s Lacrosse team. Brotherhood Chair of Delta Tau Delta.

Professional: SDE for AWS on Project FortuneTeller: enabling cost savings through predictive analytics.

Personal: I’m a true outdoors man from the San Francisco Bay. I grew up surfing dawn patrol

before class, driving to Palisades Tahoe to ski on the weekends, and hiking/running the

ample trails of the Santa Cruz mountains at every opportunity.