About Us
Reconstruct® makes the built world a better place to live, work and play. With offices in Silicon Valley and the Midwest, Reconstruct’s Visual Command Center™ brings together reality capture, drawings and models and schedule. This provides construction project stakeholders more efficient workflows in documentation, progress tracking and quality control.
Reconstruct was founded in 2016 and is used by industry leaders in North America, Asia, the Middle East and Australia who experience a 50% improvement in on time completion, 30% reduction in time necessary to report field level progress, and a 50% reduction in site visits necessary by project executives.
Meet the Team

Zak MacRunnels
CEO

Katie Hyrne
CFO

Derek Hoiem
CSO

Mani Golparvar
CTO

Kartik Money
VP of Engineering

Kevin Kennedy
CRO
Key Board Members

Zak MacRunnels
Reconstruct CEO

Barry Sandweiss
Cultivation Capital

Rob Schultz
Serra Ventures

Mani Golparvar
Reconstruct CTO & Co-founder

Jon Elliott
CEO of Bluebeam & Nemetschek Group Executive Board Member
Zak MacRunnels
As Reconstruct’s CEO, Zak is responsible for achieving company success by creating elated customers, employees, and shareholders. Zak developed expertise in construction technology while he was the COO/CRO of Buildup Technologies. His early stage business development work with Financial Engines laid the groundwork for the company’s IPO and its $3B acquisition. He learned operational excellence during his time with Samsung. He also has over a decade of management consulting experience with LEK, SyncDev, and Accelerev working with venture capital-backed startups. Zak has an MBA from Stanford and an AB from Harvard in Economics. He loves Bootcamp Tough Mudders, Laphraoig, playing the flute/sax, and coaching his children’s sports activities.
Mani Golparvar
During his 15 years in the industry, Mani designed and built commercial buildings, infrastructure systems, and port facilities in the U.S. and abroad. With a PhD in Civil Eng from Univ. of Illinois, Mani’s research has contributed to developing computer vision and BIM solutions to empower project teams better plan, coordinate, and communicate on their jobsites. Mani is now leveraging his amazing exposure to the most creative people in construction, technology, and academic worlds to improve productivity of the construction industry as a whole.
Derek Hoiem
Derek Hoiem has a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon. His research in 60+ publications has been recognized with the IEEE Young Researcher Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and Intel Early Career Award. As co-founder and CTO of Reconstruct, Derek enjoys finding ways that the latest computer vision algorithms can help people build and maintain infrastructure. He likes board games, chocolate cake, and Scotch.
Nicolas Arnold
Nicolas Arnold serves as Reconstruct’s Head of Products. Nicolas brings over 15 years of experience in product and innovation management, mostly related to construction applications. He co-founded BuildPoint, an e-commerce solution for the construction industry. He joined Siemens in a corporate consulting role to focus on product development and project management. Nicolas served as VP of Product and Innovation Management for ADAPT, a structural engineering software firm. Recently, he was Program Manager for an ESA mission related development project and co-founded nifty4D, Switzerland’s first virtual design and construction (VDC) consulting firm. Prior to Reconstruct, Nicolas had product leadership roles at SKUR, HoloBuilder, BuiltOnVision and Versatile Natures. Nicolas earned his civil engineering Master degree from Technical University Munich, Germany and is a PMP. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Douglas Schmoe
As Reconstruct’s Director of Field Operations, Doug is responsible for working with customers to ensure the Reconstruct offering is adding significant value to their construction projects and real estate assets. Doug developed expertise in construction technology over the last 14 years while serving as a manager of both operations and sales teams at companies such as Aconex, Textura, Viewpoint and AtlasRFID. Doug has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in General Engineering from the University of Illinois in Champaign. He loves being on the lake (wake boarding, fishing, etc) and spending time with his family in the Austin area.
Scott Sexton
Reconstruct’s Head of Software Development, Scott Sexton, brings 20 years of proven technical leadership to the team. Drawing on his experience in software engineering and agile development at companies like DoubleClick and Google, he enables his team to deliver quality applications that provide real value to clients. Scott has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He lives in Chicago with his wife and two boys, where he can occasionally be found enjoying a glass of wine and game of Dungeons & Dragons.
Kartik Money
Kartik is a seasoned, highly energetic technology executive with ~25 years of experience successfully building and scaling high performing engineering teams delivering best-in-class software solutions within a multitude of industry verticals.
Katie Hyrne
Katie is an experienced finance professional with a background in FP&A, corporate accounting and public accounting while working with companies ranging from high growth start ups to multi billion dollar public companies. She has strong skills in budgeting, financial modeling, and business analysis. We are incredibly lucky to have her!