Meet the team

The people behind the platform, partnering with agents to drive growth.

OUR UK & IRELAND TEAM

UK & Ireland leadership team

Steve Richmond

General Manager UKI
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Steve oversees Reapit’s operations in the UK, Ireland and South Africa, with a proven track record of guiding, leading, mentoring, and driving business forward. A dynamic industry expert, he has worked with estate and letting agencies for more than 30 years. Steve joined Reapit from LSL Estate Agents, part of the UK’s second largest chain of estate agents, where he served as Chief Operating Officer since 2015. Prior to that, Steve was the Managing Director, Operations, at Countrywide Residential Lettings, the UK’s largest lettings agency.

Nick Tiley

Regional Chief Technology Officer
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Nick has worked for Reapit in multiple geographies and across multiple products. He's built a deep understanding of the property industry and Reapit’s range of products and technologies. As well as contributing directly to the development of Reapit technology, he has also managed development teams in the UK and Australia.

Stuart Morris

Regional Vice President, Customer Operations
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Stuart has strong property industry experience and was responsible for all group change at Countrywide, one of the UK’s leading property services groups. He has 18+ years’ experience leading major change initiatives and transforming operational functions, with a proven track record of building and leading successful teams.

Neil Cobbold

Commercial Director, Reapit
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With a long background in sales, business strategy and change management, Neil works to develop successful businesses and sales teams in the UK property sector and champions property industry interests in UK public policy formulation.

Sugath Gunawardana

Senior Director, Business Transformation
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Sugs has 25+ years in technology, leading and supporting large scale services teams, and driving strategic change and transformation programmes. His previously roles include leading the Professional Services and Support functions at LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions.

Stuart McKay

Senior Director, Customer Success & Training
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Stuart is responsible for our Customer Engagement strategy, leading the UKI Customer Success and Training functions and working to ensure that Customers can fully utilise the products and services available. Stuart has a strong, award-winning background in customer engagement strategy and stakeholder management. He takes pride in his ability to establish and develop long and successful relationships with customers.

Peter Cox

Regional Financial Officer, UKI
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Peter oversees financial strategy, planning, and performance across the UKI business and has played a leading role in building and establishing PayProp as a highly effective SaaS technology business serving the UK property sector.

OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM

Global leadership team

Mark Armstrong

CEO
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Mark has 30+ years’ experience in enterprise technology, within diverse sectors such as enterprise application support, application development, SaaS, and business process management. He's held senior leadership roles at Rimini Street, a market leader in third-party support; Progress Software, a leading platform provider for developing and deploying strategic business applications; and LexisNexis Visualfiles, where he was responsible for driving many of the property industry’s data integration standards.

Patrick Aalbers

Chief Marketing Officer
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Patrick Aalbers leads Reapit’s global marketing strategy, overseeing brand, demand generation, product marketing, and communications. Patrick has over 20 years of experience in B2B SaaS, FinTech, and PropTech, having held senior marketing roles at Aareon, Backbase, and TomTom Telematics. He has a proven track record of building high-performing teams, aligning marketing with commercial goals, and driving measurable growth across international markets.

Steve Dobson

Vice President, Business Operations
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Steve has 20+ years’ experience in finance and operational roles at technology companies. His previous roles include Commercial Finance Director at legal intelligence provider, LexisNexis; and most recently Revenue Operations Director, EMEA and LatAm for Rimini Street, a market leader in third-party support.

André Holtshausen

General Manager, Payment Services
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André is responsible for Reapit’s payment services around the world as well as PayProp in North America. Working with banks, regulators and FinTech organisations, he finds innovative and compliant structures and processes to continue extending our worldwide leadership in how residential letting payments are facilitated. André started his career at PwC as a qualified chartered accountant. After moving into FinTech, he spent more than 18 years growing PayProp across South Africa, the UK and North America.

Josua Loots

Chief Legal Officer
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Josua oversees coordination of corporate legal, compliance and risk across the UK, South Africa, Denmark, Australia, Canada and the US, engaging daily with matters involving commercial law, technology law, IP law, contracts, and corporate governance.

Sally Lund

General Manager Denmark
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Sally has worked in the property industry for more than 20 years. Her unmatched understanding of PropTech innovation and customer requirements in combination with the trust of our customers has led Mindworking to its current position as the Danish market leader. She lives in Aarhus with her family. In the summertime, you will find Sally cruising with her husband and two sons in a customised auto camper.

Matt McGown

Chief Product Officer
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Matt founded, grew and exited his own business in 2013. Since then, he's held various senior leadership and advisory roles, all focused on moving the revenue and profitability dials of technology businesses. His areas of expertise include product development; marketing; sales; onboarding and support; and management reporting.

Emma Mulqueeny

VP Business Transformation
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As VP of Business Transformation, Emma Mulqueeny OBE is responsible for leading Reapit’s transformation initiatives, ensuring our strategic priorities are translated into practical, measurable outcomes across the Group. Emma has built her career helping technology businesses navigate growth, change and operational complexity. Prior to joining Reapit, she held senior transformation leadership roles at Causeway Technologies and SUSE, where she helped support the company’s journey to Europe’s largest technology IPO. Emma also founded Young Rewired State and was awarded an OBE for Services to Technology and Education.

Katherine Nisbet

Chief of Staff
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Katherine brings extensive public and private sector experience in senior coordination and strategic support roles. She served as Principal Private Secretary to the Director of EU and International Trade at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and worked in the Private Office of the National Statistician at the Office for National Statistics. Most recently, Katherine was Chief of Staff at electric vehicle charge point operator Believ. Katherine holds a BSc with Honours from the University of Stirling and a Master’s degree from Kingston University.

Cal O'Hara

Chief Commercial Officer
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Cathal O’Hara is Chief Commercial Officer at Reapit, with responsibility for the company’s global commercial strategy and leadership of Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, Revenue Operations and Commercial Enablement. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has led global commercial organisations for some of the technology sector’s most recognised software and cybersecurity companies, including DigiCert, Symantec and VeriSign. His expertise spans commercial transformation, pricing strategy, go-to-market execution, leadership development and driving sustainable revenue growth across international markets.

Hans Vogelberg

Chief Financial Officer, Reapit
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A chartered accountant with over 20 years of experience, Hans leads financial strategy, planning, and reporting, drawing on a strong track record in corporate finance, fundraising, and international team leadership.

Suzie Woodhams

Chief People Officer
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Suzie has extensive experience in technology sector HR, where she has led mergers, acquisitions and integrations from a people perspective, working across organisations such as TelecityGroup (acquired by Equinix), Optivo (now called Southern Housing), and Pagero (acquired by Thomson Reuters). Suzie also serves on the Board and RemCo at AbilityNet, a charity that helps people of all ages with disabilities improve their lives using technology. She holds an honours degree in Psychology and a Fellowship in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

OUR BOARD

Board members and advisors

Mark Armstrong

Rob Palumbo

Director, Co-Managing Partner, Accel-KKR
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Prior to Accel-KKR, Rob worked in the technology investment banking practice at Deutsche Bank and Stephens Inc. Rob started his career as a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Alex Brown & Sons in Baltimore, MD in 1990. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University.

Maurice Hernandez

Director, Managing Director, Accel-KKR
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Maurice founded Accel-KKR's London office and has headed the firm’s European activities since 2010. Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Maurice was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Mergers & Acquisitions team. Maurice previously worked at Needham & Company where he worked with emerging enterprise technology businesses, Robertson Stephens, a growth sector focused investment bank, and Excite.com, a leading web services portal. He received a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Park Durrett

Director, Managing Director, Accel-KKR
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Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Park was a Principal at The CapStreet Group, a lower middle market private equity firm. Prior to CapStreet, Park worked with Technology Crossover Ventures and 3i Group focused on originating and executing late stage growth equity investments in leading information technology companies. Park started his career in the technology investment banking group of Robertson Stephens & Company. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his B.S. from Cornell University.

Adrian Gill

Advisor, Chairman, Autoenhance.ai
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After training as a Chartered Accountant, Adrian spent more than 20 years as a Director of the UK's largest estate agencies including Connells, LSL and Leaders Romans. Adrian is now Chairman of Autoenhance.ai, who use AI to enhance property photos. In addition, he is a non-exec Director for a number of other PropTech businesses, including Reapit.

Mark Duffell

Advisor, CEO, isolved
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Based in Orange County, California and UK born and raised, Mark boasts more than 35 years of software and SaaS experience including his current role as CEO of isolved and his most recent role as President and CEO of Episerver (now Optimizely). He also held the position of Chairman of the Board, President and CEO at Kana Software, Inc. and was President and COO of Epicor Software Corporation. Mark is known for his operational expertise, strong financial stewardship, and importantly customer- and sales-centric leadership, having started his career in sales and never forgetting its critical role in customer experience and company growth.

Rachel Spasser

Advisor, Managing Director, Accel-KKR
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Rachel provides strategic guidance and commercial leadership across Accel-KKR’s portfolio. Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Rachel was SVP and CMO for Ariba, Inc. (acquired by SAP). Before that, she worked in executive roles with cloud software and Internet-related companies including IBM and KnowledgeStorm Inc. With 30+ years' experience in general management, marketing leadership and business development for growth-oriented companies, Rachel has spent the past 25 years focused on the B2B technology sector. She holds an MBA with honors from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Johnny Van Siclen

Director, VP, Accel-KKR
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Prior to joining Accel-KKR, Johnny founded EarnSmart and Zypae, two distinct payments focused technology businesses. Prior to EarnSmart and Zypae, Johnny was an Analyst in the Technology Group at Stifel and the Diversified Financials Group at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods. While at Stifel/KBW, Johnny was involved in a variety of M&A advisory and financing transactions in the technology and financial services sectors. He received his B.A. in Economics and Environmental Studies from Amherst College.