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About

No doubt, you have heard the age-old proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But what if you don’t have a village? These days, most of us don’t have our family or close friends nearby. You’re not alone, and Via The Village believes you don’t have to do it alone.

We’ve create a free childcare networking platform for families to come together to build your own personalized villages within your local community to find safe, reliable childcare through your trusted connections and network with other nearby families. We offer families assistance with their search and setup through our Premier Support Services to make the process easier and more efficient.

Nannies can search for desirable employment relationships and other nannies nearby for backup and playdate meetups. We provide empowerment tools and Career Coaching Services for nannies looking for a job they love.

About

No doubt, you have heard the age-old proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But what if you don’t have a village? These days, most of us don’t have our family or close friends nearby. You’re not alone, and Via The Village believes you don’t have to do it alone.

We’ve create a free childcare networking platform for families to come together to build your own personalized villages within your local community to find safe, reliable childcare through your trusted connections and network with other nearby families. We offer families assistance with their search and setup through our Premier Support Services to make the process easier and more efficient.

Nannies can search for desirable employment relationships and other nannies nearby for backup and playdate meetups. We provide empowerment tools and Career Coaching Services for nannies looking for a job they love.

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The Team

Emily Louange

Founder, CEO

Emily Louange, a registered nurse, has been caregiving for two decades, including being a nanny herself for a short time.

She grew up in a small town in Michigan, where a sense of community was strong. When she became a mother in 2012, she found herself craving that kind of community once again, but in the urban area where she lived, it was not as easy to find for her new family. More specifically, they needed childcare, preferably recommended by someone they trusted, and also affordable. Nanny sharing was the answer—but there were no efficient platforms dedicated to setting up a share. She started a nanny-sharing Facebook group that organically grew into the thousands. She felt a strong calling to create a better tool to help families and nannies connect. Hence, Via The Village was born!

Emily would like to express gratitude to her own village for all the support and encouragement. Special thanks to her husband, Anthony Louange.

Bharat Walia

Go-to-Market Strategy Advisor

Bharat Walia began his career at CDW in technology sales primarily focusing on the datacenter and cloud, then moving to LinkedIn where he worked with the Executive Leadership to help implement social selling strategies to achieve their revenue targets. After LinkedIn, Bharat moved to Manhattan to work with an early stage startup called Mast Mobile to build their go-to-market strategy and business development efforts.

Currently he works with startups as a go-to-market Strategy consultant.

Additionally, Bharat serves on the Board of his alumni association at the University of Illinois Chicago and the Illinois Advisory Board of US Global Leadership Council.

In his free time, Bharat teaches meditation.

Kimberley Benakovich

Nanny Expert & EduCare Director

Kimberley Roberts has been a professional nanny for 17 years and has over 20 years of experience with children. She has worked as a kindergarten teacher, reading specialist, newborn care specialist, and caregiver. In 2014, she received the title “Mama,” and began to bring her son, Simon, to work with her.

Kimberley chose to be a part of Via The Village because she is a passionate advocate for nannies, and it is her desire to elevate the nanny profession through education, networking, and marketing.

As a mother, she knows the value of having a village to turn to for help, advice, camaraderie, and recommendations. As a nanny, Kimberley has often wished that there was a platform that offered these same resources to herself and her fellow nanny “colleagues.” At Via The Village, she is able to find BOTH!

Hiren Variava

Technical Advisor

Hiren has over 20 years of experience in technology industry designing, developing and managing software products and leading technical teams. He has held progressively responsible positions at Motorola, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and American Express before founding his own boutique software development firm, Infonius Solutions.

Hiren has helped organizations of various sizes in achieving their technology goals related to:
– Growing and managing outstanding technical teams
– Flexible and scalable system architecture designs including service-oriented architecture, microservices architecture, and event-driven architecture
– Design and development of cloud and mobile based software products

Hiren primarily works with startups on building products and providing technical mentorship. He has a keen interest in technology startups, AI, ML, and BigData.

Hiren spends his free time with wife Nikita and two young kids, Ria and Rudr. Hiren has also practiced a 10-day Vipassana meditation.

Shailesh Hande

Senior Software Engineer

Shailesh Hande completed his Masters of Computer Applications at MIT College Pune.
He possesses over 6 years experience working at Infonius Solutions and Mphasis. He has a variety of expertise working with web applications, mobile development, big data and technologies including Java, Spring, NodeJS, React-Native, Kafa, Solr, and more.
Shailesh has been a developer with Via The Village since its inception.
In his free time, he enjoys playing the guitar or does R&D on new tech.

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Join Our Team!

We are looking to grow our team! If you are interested in being a part of our mission to elevate the childcare industry and bring families and nannies the innovation they deserve, email info@viathevillage.com. Let us know about your skills and talent. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Acknowledgements and Appreciation

It has taken a village to bring Via The Village to fruition. Thank you to all who contributed. Special acknowledgements to Lana Ast, Jill Dudones, Carolyn Engelmann, Diana Goldman, Joel Gruber, Kelsey Heitz, Infonius Solutions, Liza Johnson, Elizabeth Kipp, Nikki Kman, Judith Raskiewicz, Three Engines, Hiren Variava, Vikram Waghela, Drew Whiting and to all the families and nannies from Via The Village Facebook Group who came out to be a part of the photo shoot.

Acknowledgements and Appreciation

It has taken a village to bring Via The Village to fruition. Thank you to all who contributed. Special acknowledgements to Lana Ast, Jill Dudones, Carolyn Engelmann, Diana Goldman, Joel Gruber, Kelsey Heitz, Infonius Solutions, Liza Johnson, Elizabeth Kipp, Nikki Kman, Judith Raskiewicz, Three Engines, Hiren Variava, Vikram Waghela, Drew Whiting and to all the families and nannies from Via The Village Facebook Group who came out to be a part of the photo shoot.

Kickstarter Kudos

Sincere gratitude to the 105 backers who made our crowdfunding campaign a success!

Gold Level Backers

Mirella Alexis (Childcare Advocate & Doula), Baby PhD at Hyde Park Neighborhood Club,

Mary & Walter Boyer, Emily Lonigro Boylan, Jeremy & Sara Grossenbacher, Bruce & Paula Gruber,

Aubrey Joy King, and Judith Raskiewicz.

Silver Level Backers

Cathy McNair and Bharat Walia

Bronze Level Backers

Randi Caldwell, Bryan & Kenna Collette, Sanjay Dhamija, The Insurance People, Alexandra Eidenberg,

Co-Founder & President, Madan Law PLLC, Karla Thomas – Urb & Burb Realty, and Anita Opdycke.

*Named with permission or by selection of “Kickstarter reward” tier
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