Cutting across a variety of industries and the public sector, with a significant technology pedigree, CNBC's Technology Executive Council offers perspective on the most pressing issues facing the industry. This is the list of the founding members of the Technology Executive Council.  For a full list of current TEC members, please visit www.cnbccouncils.com/tec.
Technology Executive Council Founding Members

David Beitel, Zillow

David Beitel, Chief Technology Officer Zillow.
Zillow Group

As chief technology officer, David manages the technical engineering team and is responsible for all website, mobile and internal product development, corporate IT and data center operations across Zillow Group. David joined Zillow in 2005 as a member of the founding team and one of the company's first executive leaders, and in addition to his CTO role, has been deeply involved in organizational development and growing the company to its size and strength today. In 2012, David was named the region's Most Innovative CTO by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Prior to Zillow, David was CTO of Expedia, which he joined as one of its earliest team members and where he spent 12 years. David started his career at Microsoft in the handheld computing group. David earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and an engineering master's in computer science from Cornell University.

David is a board trustee and advisor with a number of advocacy, education and charitable organizations, including Cornell University CIS, University Prep, and T4A.org.






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