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Candace Crew is a dynamic and motivated business professional with an impressive 40-year entrepreneurial career, highlighted by successful leadership roles in real estate and corporate housing serving national markets.

As the Owner and President of HomeCorp Relocation and Real Estate Service from 1998 to 2021, Candace demonstrated her exceptional ability to manage complex business operations, drive significant revenue growth, and deliver outstanding customer service. Her strategic approach to business management and entrepreneurship, coupled with her expertise in sales leadership and administrative oversight, brought consistently profitable results to her business.

Prior to HomeCorp, Candace served as the VP of Operations at Camden Corporate Housing (1994-1997), where she showcased her talent in optimizing operational efficiencies and implementing cost-saving measures. Her leadership not only streamlined processes but also fostered a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, significantly boosting productivity and performance.

Before Camden, Ms. Crew was the District Manager at Oakwood Worldwide (1991-1993) where she exceeded sales targets, fostered team collaboration, increased community engagement, while nurturing talent, developing leadership teams, and enhancing company reputation through strategic partnerships.

Candace began her career at The Dinerstein Companies (1981-1991) and reached the position of Senior Vice President of Marketing, where she established the foundations for her extensive skill set, by honing her abilities in strategic planning, team management, and business development. During her decade-long tenure at Dinerstein, Candace was a significant contributor to the company’s growth and market expansion.

Candace has a profound and broad understanding of the multifamily industry. Her skills include: client servicing/relationship management, employee development, strategic market analysis, and project management.

Christopher Giottonini is a results-driven professional with a strong foundation in technology, data analysis, and business strategy. Throughout his dynamic career journey, he has consistently driven operational excellence and sparked innovation.

Giottonini is Vice President at REV™ The Multifamily Leasing Company, spearheading strategic technology initiatives aimed at revolutionizing the leasing industry. His journey at REV began as Director of Technology and R&D, where he focused on optimizing operations, enhancing data-driven decision-making, and establishing a scalable infrastructure.

Giottonini has played an extensive role in developing The REV Leasing Score™, REV’s tech-driven business intelligence tool empowering multifamily teams, from ownership to leasing management, with a streamlined approach to evaluate and enhance leasing operations and unlock leasing personnel potential.

Christopher’s diverse experience ranges from full-stack software engineering for Fortune 500 clients in FinTech to machine learning projects for startups. His expertise spans software development, data science, machine learning, computational modeling in biophysics labs, and writing Hubble Space Telescope command scripts in astrophysics labs.

Throughout his career, he has demonstrated an innate curiosity and a determination to tackle complex challenges, collaborating effectively within close-knit teams and effectively communicating quantitative insights to diverse audiences. Christopher’s passion lies in driving innovation, cultivating problem-solving mindsets, and empowering others within the dynamic landscape of technology.

Giottonini earned Bachelor of Science degrees in both Physics and Mathematics from Trinity College – Hartford.

Marion Hubbard is the director of finance, human resources, and administration at REV™. Her directorial commitments involve overseeing payroll, recruitment, legal and corporate affairs, and corporate insurance policies. 

Hubbard engages her expertise to streamline the finance and recruitment processes. She is a former licensed insurance producer in Connecticut and has completed several courses as a Certified Employee Benefit Specialist. Hubbard serves as the president of the board of trustees for the United States Methodist Church of Waterbury and volunteers as a blood donor in Connecticut.

Roxanne Johnson is the Sr. Director for Leasing Management and Human Resources at REV™. Her responsibilities include ensuring employee hiring, retention, and contractor certification. She is also heading client relationships with leasing management projects.

Johnson not only now manages client relations per excellence, but also instilled a positive work environment during her tenure as the director of corporate culture. She is a graduate of business administration from the University of Louisiana Lafayette and has operated in the finance industry for 22 years. Her humanitarian mindset informs how she spends her free time, investing most of it in voluntary service for the likes of the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity Louisiana.

Christin Haines is a senior project manager at REV™. Some of her responsibilities include recruitment and onboarding, logistical executions, payroll functions and schedule management. 

Her ability to organize everyone’s schedules and extensive knowledge of the company allows her to multitask across different departments. Haines also served as the project manager during the company’s infancy. Attuned to the needs of the community, she volunteers at organizations that help children in foster care and prepares meals for the financially challenged in Houston, TX.

Jayesh Rathore is the technical project manager at REV™. He is massively involved in technical development, leasing score project planning and execution, data collection and analysis, and algorithm development and automation.

Rathore interned in the summer of 2022 with REV for three months and impressed leadership enough to earn a full-time role. He established an end-to-end data pipeline that streamlined information flow and analysis for client projects, promoting data-driven decision-making. Rathore graduated with high honors as a master of business analytics and has served as the president of Club EnVision UTD, an organization for data visualization and data analytics enthusiasts. 

Jack Reich is a project manager, specializing in leasing and learning, at REV™. He liaises between RLU & RLS, develops and reviews learning materials, and assesses and reports leasing scores. 

Reich was the power behind Salesforce implementation, optimizing employee data management and schedule integration. He then facilitated the onboarding of new employees. Reich, in collaboration with other in-house creatives, also produced RLU course content as an operations and development administrator. Prior to assuming his role at REV, he was a faculty member certified in all K-6 subjects. A believer in the power of education to transform young minds, he mentors and tutors 3rd to 5th graders.

Ryan Byrd is a digital creative and LMS specialist at REV™. He creates social media content for LMS, develops branding materials and client presentation decks, and captures team photos. 

Since joining REV, Byrd has garnered recognition as the creative behind the company’s visuals. This reputation he earned while co-creating presentations for both RLS and RLU. Byrd also maximizes features such as interactive gamification, audio, and administrative capabilities. Highlights of his career before REV include a debut in the BFA’s art show and participation, by invitation, in the creation of Exquisite Monster. He graduated top of the class in his undergraduate program in fine arts, arts, and design at the University of Houston. An advocate of sustainability, he participates in beach sweeps to protect the environment. 

Tonya Jenkins is the senior leasing score talent specialist for REV™. In her role, she onboards new evaluation associates, leads recruitment efforts, and analyzes leasing scores as needed. 

Jenkins has established herself as a critical piece of the leasing and, now, recruitment departments of REV. At the behest of the company, she led and presented in an orientation for a 1099-candidate wave. She also coaches on-site leasing professionals and managers to maximize their skill sets. Prior to this, Jenkins was a phlebotomist at Carter Bloodcare. Outside work, she volunteers in various sporting seasons to encourage children in their athletic endeavors.

Krysta Martindale is the senior leasing performance analyst and client success advisor at REV™. She is responsible for the success of the assessments’ implementation and successful performance of the evaluation associates in her team. She also takes an active role in assisting with the overall success of the RLS project management.

Martindale started as a leasing professional, but her diligence and qualitative evaluation of property have elevated her through the corporate ranks. One of her promotions saw her relocate to Reston, VA, for seven months — selected to lead one of the company’s expansion endeavors — and then to Houston, TX. Prior to commencing work for REV™, Martindale staffed in the hospitality industry, an experience she leverages in leasing apartments. She volunteers with the Veterans Association and a local church group, among others.

Syed Ahmed is a leasing score analyst and data processing specialist at REV™. He regularly leads efficiency assessment analysis, delegates tasks to evaluation associates, and manages projects.

Ahmed lends his expertise to developing the infrastructure that powers the REV Leasing Score™. His proficiency in his role is grounded in excellent academic credentials. He holds a double major in computer information systems and political science. This he combines with a master’s in advanced data analytics, mathematics, and statistics. Pre-REV, Ahmed was a senior financial analyst. In his free time, he connects with industry colleagues at conferences organized by the International Data Engineering and Science Association, where he is an esteemed member.

Gaby Loya is a leasing performance analyst and client success advisor at REV™. In this capacity, she is a company pillar in leasing score data analytics, development coaching of evaluation associates, and leasing score assessment.

Loya is a returning, pioneering member of the REV team. In between her career at the company, she was in the U.S. Army, was certified in Hazmat Operations, and trained over 250 personnel. She was also an assistant property manager at a tax credit community prior to resuming duties at REV.

April Tawater is a Leasing Analysis and EA Success Advisor at REV™. As such, she is responsible for the success of the assessments’ implementation and successful performance of the evaluation associates in her team.

Tawater was originally hired as a leasing professional, and though she had no leasing pedigree before joining REV, she has mastered leasing and evolved into a strong yet compassionate leader in the leasing space. After venturing out of REV to join a property management company, she made her way back and realized her deeper passion for leasing performance and excellence. Her aptitude for building excellent rapport with other stakeholders has produced incredible project deliverables and earned her three Leasing Star Awards at three of four quarterly awards ceremonies in East Texas and Louisiana. Tawater is good-natured, a trait she expresses in motivating and supporting her family, friends, and local community.

Emily Ridgaway is a digital creative and LMS specialist at REV™. She creates various video content, including course presentations and other multimedia elements for our LMS courses. 

Since joining REV, Ridgaway has become an integral part of the creative team. Not only has she swiftly acquired proficiency in manipulating and generating content within our LMS, but she has also demonstrated a strong aptitude for creative endeavors. Before working at REV, she taught children while working as a freelance graphic designer. She graduated with a bachelor of fine arts from Schreiner University.