Aru Anavekar

Aru Anavekar is the CEO and Founder of botsplash, a previous Platform Product Manager - Lead Exchange Platform at LendingTree, and Sr. Applications Developer at Wachovia. Aru has a long history of working in the financial industry dating back to 2007 where they started as a Developer/Programmer Analyst. In 2008 they were promoted to Sr. Applications Developer and worked on STAR Group's Business Metadata and Change Management application. In 2009 they transferred to LendingTree as a Developer + Team Lead on the Insurance Product. Aru was responsible for leading a team of off-site developers and implemented Ping-Post pricing for insurance. In 2013 they became the Platform Product Manager - Lead, Exchange Platform and was responsible for the growth and maintenance of the product exchange platform which included developing and managing APIs and integrations with 3rd party vendors. Aru left LendingTree in 2017 to start botsplash.

Aru Anavekar has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Wake Forest University School of Business and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Austin Miles - Director, Marketing, Elizabeth Boylan - Client Success Manager, and Lydia Kaufman - Quality Assurance Lead report to Aru Anavekar.