Boston, MA (FEB 17, 2026) — Rental Beast, the industry’s leading rental data and technology platform, today announced the promotion of Shawn Keller to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This reflects both the expanding scope of Keller’s responsibilities and his continued impact on Rental Beast’s growth and strategic initiatives.
As Rental Beast moves further into 2026 and into its next stage of evolution, Keller will lead the company’s technology vision, focusing on scalability, platform readiness, and innovation, particularly as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded across products, operations, and customer experiences.
“Shawn’s promotion to CTO is both well-earned and strategically critical for Rental Beast,” said Ishay Grinberg, Founder and CEO of Rental Beast. “He has consistently demonstrated exceptional leadership, technical vision, and an ability to scale teams and platforms in ways that directly support our business goals. As AI is integrated more and more, Shawn’s leadership ensures we stay ahead of the curve and continue to deliver a meaningful technology advantage to real estate professionals and MLSs.”
Keller brings more than 25 years of experience in software product development and technology solutions, along with over 15 years of senior technical leadership. As CTO, he will continue to oversee engineering, architecture, platform strategy, and product delivery while guiding the company’s long-term technology roadmap.
Shawn Keller said: “It is an exciting time to be at Rental Beast as the property technology landscape is at an inflection point where artificial intelligence, automation capabilities, and powerful data analytics have the potential to transform the industry and address longstanding inefficiencies, as well as reshape how the property tech and real estate space operate. With our current capabilities and the continued adoption of modern technologies and planned enhancements to our product platform, Rental Beast is poised to be a leader in this space, as we continue to challenge the industry norms, innovate, and place compelling new tools in the hands of the industry’s workforce.”
Prior to joining Rental Beast, Keller held senior technology leadership roles across a range of industries, including mortgage banking, apartment management, automotive lending, and travel and hospitality. He began his career as a software engineer and technical architect at global consulting firms such as Ernst & Young, BDO, and Hitachi Consulting, delivering complex solutions to Fortune 500 organizations.
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About Shawn Keller
Rental Beast Chief Technology Officer, Shawn Keller is a highly experienced and proven technology leader with deep expertise in shepherding enterprise SaaS products from the ideation phase to product launch and beyond. He is known for building highly effective, global, cross-functional product development teams, ranging from a handful of engineers to teams of 100+. Shawn has spent 25 years in the software product and technology solutions space, combined with 15+ years of technical leadership experience.
Shawn began his career in technology as a software engineer and technical architect working for global consultancies such as Ernst and Young, BDO, and Hitachi Consulting, developing technical solutions for the Fortune 500. Since then, he has stepped into multiple senior leadership roles building global, world-class product development teams through their growth cycles, with a focus on organizational development, technical innovation, incubation of new product offerings, as well as being a change agent for product delivery effectiveness combined with high quality. During his career, Shawn has worked through a diverse range of industries including mortgage banking, property technology, automotive lending, and travel and hospitality.
About Rental Beast
Rental Beast is a leading real estate technology firm with an end-to-end SaaS platform designed to empower real estate professionals and the nation's most comprehensive database of nearly eleven million rental properties. Sourced directly from property owners, updated in real-time, and offering a fulfillment-grade rental dataset, the Rental Beast database provides real estate professionals with an unparalleled view of all properties and owner types.
Utilizing a seamless and secure integration, participating MLSs, and REALTOR® Associations can capture thousands of properties that are normally off-MLS inventory, and leverage essential search, data ingestion, and maintenance systems needed to help member agents and subscribers capture their share of $12 billion in annual leasing commissions.
Rental Beast is recognized and supported by Second Century Ventures, the capital and strategic growth arm of the National Association of REALTORS® and is a proud member of the 2022 REACH-Canada program. Learn more at rentalbeast.com.
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Rental Beast: Rebecca Hickey rebecca.hickey@rentalbeast.com
