Mr. Villante is Chairman of Villante Capital Partners, LLC (”VCP”), a Santa Monica, CA-based private equity and real estate investing firm he formed in 1997 in which he manages over $100 million. He has purchased several private companies and has provided capital to RentPayment. Mr. Villante’s experience owning apartment buildings has helped RentPayment in understanding the payment needs of property managers.

Mr. Villante was formerly a Partner at The Seidler Company (”TSC”), a leveraged buyout firm in Los Angeles. He has invested in and led buyouts in several industries including manufacturing, retail, Internet consulting and e-commerce. Prior to TSC, he was with S.G. Warburg’s Investment Banking Division, TLC Capital Partners and William E. Simon & Sons. He is a graduate of Princeton University.

Mr. Golis leads the many new growth opportunity segments and oversees the day-to-day operations of YapStone. Mr. Golis founded RentPayment, Inc. (the original multifamily target market for YapStone) in 1999, and merged with YapStone in early 2001. Prior to founding RentPayment, Inc., Mr. Golis started an Internet consultancy called Internet Commerce Associates (ICA) with clients including Fortune 500 companies that implemented business e-commerce applications that were developed at Netscape Communications (AOL). Mr. Golis is a frequent speaker at conferences regarding credit card and electronic payments and is often quoted in trade publications on ways that electronic payments can improve property management operations.

Matt is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Rob Price in responsible for all of YapStone’s financial reporting, accounting, planning, and human resources functions. Rob is a highly accomplished C-level executive with significant operating and financial management expertise, and has more than 30 years of hands-on experience driving the growth and profitability of public, private, high-growth, turnaround, and start-up companies in e-commerce and high-tech industries.

Prior to joining YapStone Rob was Chief Financial Officer of TheLadders.com. Prior to TheLadders, he was President and Chief Financial Officer of Buy.com; Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of PairGain Technologies; and Vice President, Finance & Controller of Triconex Corporation. Prior to Triconex Rob also had various executive positions at both private and public companies. In addition, he spent 10 years in public accounting as both an auditor and tax consultant.

Rob has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Accounting, from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.

Bill Evick is the Senior Vice President of Sales for RentPayment. Bill has an extensive sales and marketing background with over 17 years in software sales. For the past 13 years, Bill has been focused primarily in the property management industry; working with the largest property management companies in the U.S. Earlier in his career, Bill worked for Yardi Systems, Inc and Intuit Real Estate Solutions (MRI) selling web-based property management and accounting software to the top 100 companies in the industry. After spending 2010 as the VP of sales for AppFolio, a SaaS based property management vendor, Bill returned to RentPayment. He was originally with RentPayment from 2005-2009 and is happy to be back leading the sales team. In his tenure, Bill has helped RentPayment become the leading Software as a Service (SaaS) electronic payment solution in the real estate and property management industry.

Mike is responsible for overseeing Yapstone's business development activities to drive revenue growth, including evaluating new business initiatives, new vertical markets, strategic partnerships and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Yapstone, Mike was an Executive Director and Co-Head of Business Services / Head of Education Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank. Prior to joining UBS, Mike worked in the investment banking department of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Over the course of his 12 year investment banking career, Mike originated and executed a wide range of transactions for corporate and private equity clients, including public and private equity offerings, leveraged finance transactions, mergers & acquisitions and corporate restructurings.

Mike holds a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Indiana University.

Kelly Kay has joined YapStone, Inc, as General Counsel and Senior Vice President. She joins YapStone with over 15 years of global payment and regulatory experience. Kelly joins us from The Wikimedia Foundation, where she served as Deputy General Counsel. Prior to Wikimedia, Kelly was the Public Policy & Regulatory Head for APMEA at MasterCard International located in Singapore where she lead the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa regulatory efforts of Mastercard.

Prior to Mastercard, Kelly was the Associate General Counsel and Head of Compliance for PayPal Asia Pacific, where she lead the legal and compliance team and partnered with the business to expand PayPal’s offerings into numerous markets throughout Asia Pacific including Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan, Philippines, India, and Malaysia. She spent ten years at PayPal and eBay in various locations around the world.

In addition to these roles, Kelly held key roles in Flawless Money and Banc One Corporation.

As Senior Vice President of Marketing & Strategy, Gary will be in charge of driving the company’s revenue growth and increasing market share for YapStone’s portfolio of products.

Gary brings 14 years of experience in online media, internet technology and digital advertising. Prior to joining Yapstone, he served as SVP of Business Development for Shopzilla, where he championed many of the key revenue generating initiatives and marketing programs that propelled Shopzilla to become one of the largest and most successful shopping search engines in the world.

Prior to Shopzilla, Gary served as CMO for Cheers, promoting its apps which delight users at the intersection of mobile and social networking. Gary has also held leadership posts at various other Internet companies including InsWeb and eNutrition, and has been a speaker at various ecommerce conferences on the topics of search marketing and local Internet advertising. 

Gary received his undergraduate degree in marketing from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MBA from the University of Southern California.

Chris Harvey joins YapStone as the Vice President of Client Services. He is responsible for the onboarding and ongoing management of our entire client base, including our Call Center, Trust & Safety, and European Operations.

Chris has spent over 20 years building and mentoring best-of-breed support organizations. Prior to joining YapStone, Chris was the Vice President of Customer Satisfaction at Intransa, where he was responsible for all Technical Support, Supply Chain and IT activities. Before Intransa, Chris built the highly regarded Customer Support organization at zazzle.com from the ground up. Prior to Zazzle, Chris held various executive management positions for several silicon valley startups.

Chris holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from Golden Gate University.

Troy will lead YapStone’s global brand marketing initiatives and work closely with the Executive Team on the creation and execution of its brand strategy, product development and business strategy.

Troy is an experienced marketing veteran, having spent over 20 years with the world’s largest traditional and digital advertising agencies, including BBDO, J. Walter Thompson and iCrossing. In his career, Troy has helmed marketing programs for Fortune 500 companies (Visa, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Vail Resorts, Hilton) garnering both marketing effectiveness for his clients as well as awards for the respective agency.

Prior to joining YapStone, Troy was the SVP/Executive Creative Director at Ignited, an independent digital agency in Los Angeles where he served as a Senior Management Team member. Troy is also an experienced entrepreneur, serving as co-founder and marketing advisor for KOR Water, a personal hydration brand focused on developing innovative and sustainable water bottles.

Troy Scarlott is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

Mary Hentges has joined YapStone, Inc, as the EVP and Chief Financial Officer. Hentges joins YapStone from CBS Interactive, where she led their worldwide finance operations. Prior to CBS Interactive, Hentges was CFO of PayPal, where she led a global finance team that oversaw accounting, billing, financial planning, analysis, strategy, enterprise risk management, tax, treasury and internal audit to enable a tenfold growth in their payments business over seven years.

Prior to joining PayPal, Hentges held key finance roles at Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard where she co-led the financial aspects of the separation and IPO of Agilent from its parent company, Hewlett-Packard.

Hentges began her career in the audit sectors of Ernst & Whinney and Price Waterhouse.