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Our Team
Brian Gaudio
Chief Executive Officer, Assoc. AIA
Brian believes that everyone deserves access to good design. The inspiration for starting Module came while he was directing Within Formal Cities – a documentary about the housing crisis in South America, which debuted in 2016. Prior to starting Module, Brian was a Fulbright Scholar in Santiago, Dominican Republic, where he led an urban design research initiative. He has lectured and given presentations for the American Institute of Architects, the Rockefeller Foundation, and numerous universities in the US and abroad. Brian has design experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit world. He worked in Blue Sky Department at Walt Disney Imagineering where he helped create new ride concepts for the Disney Parks, and he served as an architectural intern at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio. Brian graduated Summa Cum Laude from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Architecture where he was a Park Scholar, started a non-profit organization, and was a Finalist for the Harry S Truman Scholarship.
Hallie Dumont
Chief Design Officer
Hallie is a designer who loves to create efficient and honest, user-centered spaces. She discovered her passion for residential interiors after spending years working hands on in home remodeling. The experience opened her eyes to the often unhealthy relationship between clients and their homes. These concerns led Hallie to conduct research on alternative and prefabricated housing while completing her Master’s Degree in Interior Architecture at Chatham University. After completing her degree, Hallie designed a tiny house called Nanohouse under award winning Architect Eric Fisher. Hallie was born and raised in Pittsburgh and has an undergraduate degree in design from Carnegie Mellon University. Her hobbies include spending time with her pups, mountain biking, and Olympic weight lifting.
Drew Brisley
Chief Product Officer
Nothing keeps Drew’s attention more than that of an unsolved problem. This is what attracted him to Module. Taking cues from his field of product design and applying them to the field of architecture, he brings a customer-focused approach that is integral to the culture at Module.
Upon graduating Summa Cum Laude from NC State’s College of Design, he helped to found Contour Medical, a medical device startup focused on a product for reducing fracture during cardiothoracic surgery. In conjunction, he began working for Trig, an innovation management firm based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he rose to Manager of Innovation and Strategy. Throughout his time at Trig, he was named an inventor on several patents, received two IDEA Awards, designed products ranging from medical devices to consumer products, and led marketing and business development strategy.
In his free time, he enjoys snowboarding, mountain biking, sketching, cooking, and most importantly spending time with friends and family.
Ankur Dobriyal
Director of Off-Site Innovation
Ankur was first introduced to construction by his father, an industry veteran. After completing his Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from R.V.C.E, Bangalore, Ankur worked on a large-scale housing project in India where he developed a keen interest in residential real estate development. He then went on to earn a Master’s in Architecture-Engineering-Construction Management from Carnegie Mellon University, during which he worked on multiple projects with local developers and neighborhood development groups in Pittsburgh. Along with an interdisciplinary team, Ankur was a finalist in the Synchro Software University Challenge where his team created a mixed-use housing development concept focused on construction time efficiency. When he’s not working, Ankur enjoys traveling and playing video games.
Lu Zhu
Director of Real Estate Development
Lu is a master dabbler, who has dabbled (and received degrees) in urban planning, urban design and asset management. He analyzes community developments through every lens, turning investment flows into full scale studies of neighborhood growth. Lu mapped his career from Hangzhou, China to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his team developed a strategic revitalization proposal for the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. While getting his Master’s of Urban Design at Carnegie Mellon, Lu worked at the Remaking Cities Institute and was selected as one of the first Deloitte Foundation fellows. In addition to serving on the investment committee for the Next Act Fund, Lu joined the Mandel Group Inc. as a passive investor, and is a member of the BlueTree Allied Angels network.
Marquis Cofer
Director of Customer Experience
Born into a general contracting family, Marquis has been around real estate and construction his whole life. Upon graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, Marquis joined as one of the early members of Ikos, a tech-enabled leasing service out of Pittsburgh. He spent time in sales, management, and operations before eventually overseeing the development of Ikos' software products for a user base of 15,000 landlords and over 1,000,000 renters across 80,000 rental units. After several consulting projects and time designing the customer-facing software at Fund That Flip, Marquis decided to join forces with Module to get more housing built.
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