Everything You Need To Know About Yext

Executive Team

Board of Directors

We're Hiring!

Our Ideas

Howard Lerman
Brian Distelburger
Tom Dixon
Sean MacIsaac
Alok Bhushan
Wendi Sturgis
Allison Tepley
Christian J. Ward

Howard Lerman

Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with the vision of improving the way local businesses and consumers connect. Yext is Howard's fourth internet company, the past three of which have had successful exits. Howard is a graduate of Duke University.
Brian Distelburger

Brian Distelburger has extensive experience with startups and publicly traded companies in the online media and database marketing space. Brian believes Yext will revolutionize the way consumers connect with local businesses and looks forward to the continued challenge of building a great company. Brian is a graduate of Cornell University.
Tom Dixon

Tom serves as Yext's Chief Operating Officer, supervising engineering, operations, and development of the company's product portfolio. Prior to joining Yext, Tom co-founded justatip.com and was CEO and co-founder of Intwine. Tom graduated with highest honors from Princeton University with a degree in philosophy.
Sean Maclsaac

Sean MacIsaac serves as Yext's Chief Technology Officer. Sean was co-founder and CTO of Intwine, a software consulting company that he helped grow prior to completing its sale to Datran Media. After the acquisition, Sean was promoted to CIO of Datran, where his team supported the development and operations of Datran's core technology platform. Sean graduated with honors from Princeton University with a bachelor's in computer science.
Alok Bhushan

Alok Bhushan is a senior finance executive with years of experience running financial operations at rapidly growing technology companies. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Intwine and helped to complete its sale to Datran Media. Prior to joining Yext, he spent several years on Wall Street in index arbitrage and quantitative finance. Alok Bhushan graduated with high honors from Harvard University with a bachelor's in economics and a master's in computer science.
Wendi Sturgis

Wendi has spent the last twenty years working in the tech, media and internet space. She is currently the EVP of Sales and Services at Yext. Prior to her role at Yext, she held positions Yahoo!, Right Media, and Oracle. Wendi serves on the Dailyworth.com and Step Up Women’s Network boards. Wendi graduated from Georgia Tech and currently serves on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board.
Allison Tepley

As SVP of Enterprise Marketing, Allison is responsible for introducing Yext to new customers, showcasing our product and network, and building the Yext brand. Previously, Allison has run techonology marketing teams at Google, AOL, and AddThis; worked in strategy consulting; and was in politics and in government in Washington, DC. Allison graduated from Georgetown University and Harvard Business School.
Christian J. Ward

Christian leads the partnerships and reseller division at Yext. With a background in creating and leading information and data companies, his focus is to help other businesses leverage the power of the Yext platform in their own strategies. Prior to joining Yext, Christian was the Chief Data Officer at Infogroup as well as the Global Head of Content Innovation at Thomson Reuters. He has a B.S. In Finance from the University of Florida.

Michael Walrath
Brian Distelburger
Howard Lerman
Jules Maltz
Andy Sheehan
Jesse Lipson

Michael Walrath

Michael sits on the board of MOAT, GuideMe, Yext, and InAdCo. Michael was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007. He and his wife Michelle created The Walrath Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on social, environmental and environmental health issues. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Richmond.
Brian Distelburger

Brian Distelburger has extensive experience with startups and publicly traded companies in the online media and database marketing space. Brian believes Yext will revolutionize the way consumers connect with local businesses and looks forward to the continued challenge of building a great company. Brian is a graduate of Cornell University.
Howard Lerman

Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 with the vision of improving the way local businesses and consumers connect. Yext is Howard's fourth internet company, the past three of which have had successful exits. Howard is a graduate of Duke University.
Jules Maltz

Jules Maltz is a General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners. He focuses on later-stage venture investments in Internet and software companies. Mr. Maltz has over ten years of venture capital and startup experience. Mr. Maltz has done an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where Mr. Maltz was a Siebel Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also received a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University.
Andy Sheehan

Andy Sheehan is currently a director of SPINMEDIA, Global Liquid Marketings, LLC, TOA Technologies, and Yext, Inc. Previously, he worked at VantagePoint Venture Partners, Alex. Brown & Sons and ABS Capital Partners. Andy received his BA from Dartmouth College with a degree in English. He earned his MBA in 1985 from the Wharton School.
Jesse Lipson

Jesse has been involved in internet technologies since 1999, when he co-founded a software company focused on the personalization of online advertising. Jesse also co-founded the internet services firm novelProjects and served as the company’s CEO. Over the past five years, novelProjects has evolved into ShareFile, an internet software company where Mr. Lipson currently serves as President and CEO.

We're Hiring!

We are building a business that we (and everyone we know) will benefit from. We are a fast-paced, early stage technology company solving what is to us a very interesting problem – getting perfect location information into every hand.

VIEW OPEN POSITIONS >>

Yext at Work

New Research

The Yext Quarterly: Your resource on the changing landscape of local and location.

read more >>
Data

Infographic: Missing location information is costing businesses $10.3 billion.

READ MORE >>
Financial Times

Online data errors cost US groups $10bn, according to industry research.

Read More >>
New Partner

Yext Partners with YP: Introducing YP as part of the PowerListings Network.

READ MORE >>
PowerListings Launch [Video]

Enhance your listings with menus, products lists, events and staff bios using PowerListings+.

WATCH VIDEO >>
VentureBeat

Outdated online listings lead to $10.3B loss for businesses, says Yext .

Read More >>
Inc. Magazine

Don't Let 'Em Eat Your Lunch: Bloomberg's Best Advice

Read More >>
AdWeek

Business Insider's slideshows are now ads, too. Publisher unveils gallery-takeover units.

Read More >>
The Next Web

Federated local business listings service Yext expands its platform to include calendar, staff information.

Read More >>
MediaPost

Redefining The Meaning Of Housewarming With Yext

Read More >>
Crain's

The "next Yellow Pages" is on a tear: With plans to add 125 employees, the online listings manager moves into new headquarters.

Read More >>
Business Insider

In one of his final interviews, Andrew Mason talked about building a business for the next '20-30 years'.

READ MORE >>
VentureBeat

Yext evolves local business listings with bios, reviews, and more.

READ MORE >>

Yext Client Login

Contact Us

Call Us!

Send us a message

Small Business

Get Started / Sales:

Support

Enterprise & Partners

Enterprise Sales:

Partners:

General Inquiries

Network:

Affiliates:

Press:

Other Info:

Yext Inc. 1 Madison Ave, 5th Fl New York, NY 10010