Frederick Townes is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Placester, the real estate advertising network. As CTO, Frederick leads the technology strategy required to drive innovation within the online real estate market.

Placester partners with leading publishers to quickly and effortlessly deliver secure digital ad products that today’s agents and brokers desire, within a user experience that is optimized to increase consumer engagement and conversion. The company has raised $8M in total funding and is backed by leading investors including Romulus Capital, Techstars and Angel Street Capital.

Prior to Placester, Frederick was the founding CTO of Mashable, the online news source, and founder of W3 EDGE, a web software company. Frederick graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2001.