Leadership Team

Eric Frank is a corporate leader with expertise in customer-driven business innovation and product development, global business development, organic growth, strategic leadership, customer-driven management, global market expansion, operational infrastructure, and more. As the Founder & chief executive officer of LightBox, he is guiding the company’s formation and transformation into the leading data and analytics platform for the commercial real estate sector. He is known for his ability to attract top talent, foster innovation, and galvanize organizations to surpass their corporate goals.

Previously, Mr. Frank was a managing director at DMGI and DMGT, where he oversaw a portfolio of U.S. commercial real estate information companies. Before that, he was a director at AGDATA, a provider of payment facilitation, information services, and software. He held several roles at Thomson Reuters, including president of an investment advisory division, and helped lead the integration of Thomson Financial and Reuters. Mr. Frank worked with a private equity firm to pursue the acquisition of a corporate services asset from Thomson Reuters and negotiated changes to the proposed deal structure, enabling an increase in bid value with no impact on returns.

Mr. Frank began his career at Morgan Guaranty, where he invented and built the ADR.com portal in the early dot.com era, delivering $12 million in revenues in just two years to position the company for an eventual $200 million sale to Thomson Financial. He serves on the boards of The TIE, Social Market Analytics, and the Risk Assistance Network & Exchange. He holds a bachelor’s degree in general studies from the University of Michigan. 

Amanda D. H. Allen is the chief financial officer and a member of the executive committee at LightBox, where she is responsible for global finance, accounting, tax, and treasury functions. She is focused on creating value for LightBox stakeholders by leading change across people, process and systems to build a unified, scalable platform for LightBox’s growth.  She leads the company’s strategic planning, annual operating planning, capital allocation and performance management processes and evaluates merger and acquisition opportunities. 

Previously, Ms. Allen was the chief financial officer at High Ridge Brands. Before that, she held strategy and corporate finance roles at large multinationals such as PepsiCo and medium-sized private equity backed companies such as Edible Arrangements and Waterworks. She began her career in investment banking at UBS. She is an advisory board member for New York University’s Center for Sustainability. She graduated with honors from both Duke University with a bachelor of science degree in economics and New York University Stern School of Business with a masters of business administration. 

Eric Bollens is a senior technology executive with more than a decade of leadership experience in the real estate, environmental, education, energy, and compliance sectors. His work straddles the intersection of business and technology, focusing on developing strategies, platforms, and teams to solve core business challenges with technical solutions. As the chief technology officer at LightBox, he leads the company’s engineering and product management groups in the development of a single platform for customers to access LightBox’s data, workflow, tools, and analytics.

Previously, Mr. Bollens was the senior vice president of engineering for location products and data platforms, working on the unification of LightBox’s data assets and the development of its next-generation data platform. Before joining LightBox, he was the chief technology officer of CloudCompli and a lead architect at UCLA’s Office of Information Technology.

Mr. Bollens has won the California EPA’s Data Innovation Challenge, the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Leadership Award, and was a two-time gold winner of the University of California’s Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

With more than 20 years of experience in product management and strategy, analytics, data management, enterprise integration, and more, Adam Cardarelli is the chief product officer at LightBox, where he oversees all phases of product life cycles, from initial concept through commercialization.

Previously, he was the head of product at Crux Informatics and worked in executive positions at Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters. Mr. Cardarelli holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Stony Brook University.

Lee Gavin is a passionate believer in the idea that employees drive business results. He brings his experience achieving growth objectives through strategic workforce planning, talent initiatives, organizational design and effectiveness, and performance management to his role as chief people officer at LightBox.

Before joining LightBox, Mr. Gavin was the chief people officer at Arizent, an information and marketing services company working with businesses in financial and professional services. Prior to that, he was a human resources business partner in several divisions at Thomson Reuters. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business studies and human resources management from Sheffield Hallam University.

Dan Gottlieb has devoted his career to working with data and software products for the real estate and structured finance markets. As the chief strategy officer at LightBox, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new markets and strategic opportunities and providing leadership to LightBox’s data science and research and development teams. Among his areas of focus are commercial real estate diligence and valuation, environmental and climate risk, and broadband availability.   

Previously, Mr. Gottlieb was the chief strategy officer at Environmental Data Resources, leading its expansion beyond environmental assessments into the broader commercial real estate market. Before that, he was the chief operating officer at Trepp and part of a senior Trepp team selected by the Federal Reserve to be the commercial mortgage-backed security collateral monitor for the Term Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility during the financial crisis. Mr. Gottlieb is an active participant in the real estate technology industry, holding committee roles and carrying out speaking and writing engagements for the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, the Risk Management Association, and the American Society for Testing and Materials. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a master of business administration degree in finance and accounting from the New York University Stern School of Business. 

Albert Lojko brings more than 20 years of experience in general management, technology, and product, sales, and business development to his role as the chief operating officer at LightBox, where he is helping steer the company’s transformation into the leading data and analytics platform in the commercial real estate sector.

Previously, Mr. Lojko was an executive vice president and the head of global corporate solutions at Ipreo. Before that, he held several roles at Thomson Reuters, including global head of open platform technology strategy, where he was responsible for defining and delivering technology and capabilities to support the company’s open platform business model. As the global head of desktop in the Financial & Risk division, Mr. Lojko was responsible for product strategy, product development, design, and user experience for Thomson Reuters Eikon and all other desktop and mobile products, including Accelus and Thomson ONE. He led a team of more than 1,200 global employees. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director in the equities business at Tradeweb. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political economy from Tulane University.

Paul Vogt is the general counsel and company secretary at LightBox, where he is also a vice president and a member of the executive committee. He has management responsibility for the company’s legal, compliance, acquisition, contracting, and corporate secretarial functions. 

Previously, Mr. Vogt was the general counsel, North America, for the Daily Mail & General Trust. Prior to that, he was a partner in the New York office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University and a juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School.