SUCCESS SINCE 1985
eProperty Innovations LLC includes ePropertyPlus™, our property management system, and eProperty Solutions, our strategic consulting services. Since 2005, our team has provided community revitalization services, rooted in data and technology, to public and private sector clients. We have developed software applications supporting disaster recovery, grants management and community revitalization. Today, our core focus is supporting and expanding our award-winning ePropertyPlus software, a property management system developed to support property data management and property revitalization by local governments, land banks, and others.
ePropertyPlus was originally developed in consultation with Center for Community Progress and Michigan land banks. ePropertyPlus is the preferred software solution for land banks tasked to put property back to productive reuse. Its benefits: flexibility, ease of use, and affordability. In 2017, we added business consulting services. We now leverage our strong domain expertise to help our partners jump start their property redevelopment strategies. Our strategic consulting has helped organizations in Texas, Alabama, Connecticut, Nebraska, and Illinois.
Prior to 2019, eProperty Innovations was named STR. Grants LLC and was owned by parent company STR LLC.
As STR. Grants, we produced and managed the successful eGrantsPlus platform that supported the $8 billion HUD/CDBG-funded Road Home homeowner rebuilding program for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Upon the sale of the eGrantsPlus platform in 2019, STR LLC was renamed Defense BudgETT and STR. Grants L.L.C. was renamed eProperty Innovations LLC.
Our company remains a veteran-owned small business formerly based in Vienna, VA, and now located in Chicago, IL.
OUR TEAM
Our Team comprises insightful professionals with decades of expertise in providing effective solutions to public and private sector clients.
Brian White - General Manager & Director of Strategic Engagement
Brian White is a mission-motivated community development professional able to exercise strategic leadership and create social impact in the fields of community development, social entrepreneurship and sustainability. In his capacity as General Manager, Brian is responsible for overall company direction and management. In his dual role as Director of Strategic Engagement, Brian and other team members work with current and prospective clients to leverage data, information and technology to advance comprehensive community revitalization strategies. Where requested, Brian also leads strategic consulting engagements, focused primarily on standing up and operating land banking organizations and conducting feasibility assessments to evaluate whether and how to establish a land bank to address vacant property issues.
His work utilizes his diverse expertise in land banks; affordable housing; real estate finance; community banking and lending; public policy; fair housing; multifamily housing development and finance; planning; financial literacy; and related topics. With over 20 years’ of experience, Brian has been recognized for innovative program design, commitment to social justice, and competence in business management.
Prior to joining eProperty Innovations, Brian founded Communities by Design, a boutique community development consulting practice focused on many of the same areas. He also served as the first Executive Director of the Cook County Land Bank Authority, was the regional CRA manager for Charter One Bank in Illinois, and was the founding Executive Director of Lakeside Community Development Corporation, a 501c3 neighborhood housing and community development organization. Brian has a MA in Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also worked towards a PhD. His dissertation examined how various actors leveraged local media to influence policy agendas favorable to their interests.
Sangamaeswaran Thangaraj - Chief Architect
Mr. Thangaraj is responsible for the overall product administration and development of our ePropertyPlus™ property management system. His career includes experience in end to end development, solution design, and operations management over a number of enterprise applications. Mr. Thangaraj leads a comprehensive team responsible for front- and back-end development, dev-ops, and customer technical support.
Olly Akodu - Senior Business Analyst
Scott Danielson - Customer Success Lead
Marye Barba - Customer Success II
Marye Barba brings more than a decade of customer service to eProperty Innovations, derived from a variety of roles and industries. Marye has a background in biochemistry and process improvement management. She developed land bank expertise with the Houston Land Bank, where she served as their ePropertyPlus site administrator and helped configure complex business processes using ePropertyPlus. As Customer Success II, Marye supports ePropertyPlus subscriber users to troubleshoot issues, modify their configurations, and develop strategies to efficiently drive outcomes. She curates our online knowledge base of Help Text articles, helps to organize user Q&A sessions, and participates to deliver new subscriber onboarding. Marye lives in the greater Houston area.