GOAT Shepherds
Leadership
John Hinckley
John Hinckley is a third-time proptech founder who has built software for multifamily for more than 20 years. He created the first enterprise texting solution for apartments. He then founded Modern Message, a leading resident engagement platform that RealPage acquired. At Billee, John brings that operator-first vision to utility billing, turning a cost center into an NOI driver.
Andrew W. Spangler
Andrew Spangler helped with the origin story with Billee in 2024 and now leads its day-to-day execution as President and Chief Legal Officer. He started as a patent litigator and federal law clerk, then served as chief legal and compliance officer for proptech and fintech companies. Andrew makes compliance part of Billee's product, so clients can bill with confidence within every regulatory limit.
Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller is a product-focused technology leader with 25 years in software and entrepreneurship. As CTO of Modern Message, he grew engineering from a handful of contractors into a full team and guided it through the company's acquisition by RealPage. At Billee, Daniel builds the modern data platform and automation that make every utility bill accurate, transparent, and ready for AI-driven insight.
Dayna Gardner
Dayna Gardner has spent 20 years in multifamily. She started in property management, then led sales and operations at Modern Message and RealPage. As Billee's SVP of Operations, she keeps the engine running, from vendor bill processing to process improvement. The result for clients is accurate billing, fast answers, and a team that understands life on-site.
Emily Ellis
Emily Ellis brings more than 20 years of accounting leadership to Billee. She began in public-company internal audit and moved into controller and VP of Accounting roles at fast-growing private companies. As SVP of Accounting, she applies financial rigor to every dollar that moves through Billee, so clients can trust that their utility payments and recoveries are handled precisely.
Danielle Hogan
Danielle Hogan leads product at Billee, turning the realities of utility billing into software that property teams enjoy using. She helped build Modern Message, the multifamily resident engagement and loyalty platform later acquired by RealPage, so she knows how apartment operators work. At Billee, she leads by example always thinking about the end user and uses that mentality to make Billee indispensable and AI native.
The Herd
Ravi Kandala
Ravi Kandala brings two decades of multifamily and real estate experience to Billee. His career runs from asset management to senior sales leadership at Quext, Rent Dynamics, SightPlan, and Valet Living. As Chief Sales Officer, he works with owners and operators to find where utility costs are leaking, then shows them how Billee's platform and team turn those leaks into NOI.
Nikki Jorski, CAS
Nikki Jorski is a longtime multifamily industry insider and a Certified Apartment Supplier (CAS) through the National Apartment Association. She leads sales operations at Billee, coordinating the events, tools, and processes that connect owners and operators with the team. Known for her energy and dependability, she makes every first conversation with Billee easy and productive.
Veronica Cruz-Miranda
Veronica Cruz-Miranda is Billee's VP of Finance. She leads the planning and financial discipline behind the company's growth. Her work helps Billee scale responsibly, so clients can count on a stable, well-run partner to manage utilities across their whole portfolio.
Chelsea Peña
Chelsea Peña knows multifamily from the inside. Before Billee, she led centralized operations at Irvine Company, supporting more than 50,000 apartment homes. Earlier she held regional and community leadership roles at Riverstone Residential and UDR. As VP of Customer Experience, she makes sure every client feels supported, from implementation through every billing cycle.
Jojo Nash
Jojo Nash spent more than seven years in multifamily utility billing at Yardi, rising from technical account manager to senior team lead. At Billee she leads compliance and billing. She makes sure resident allocations are fair, charges are fully accounted for, and every property keeps up with changing federal, state, and local rules, protecting both recovery and reputation.
Matt Carroll
Matt Carroll leads utility billing and metering solutions at Billee. He brings an analytical foundation in actuarial science and finance to one of the most numbers-driven parts of property operations. He helps clients get the most from their metering and billing programs, turning raw usage data into accurate resident charges and stronger cost recovery.
Maria Herrera
Maria Herrera leads people operations at Billee, recruiting and supporting the team behind every client relationship. She helped build Modern Message, the multifamily resident engagement and loyalty platform later acquired by RealPage, and brings that industry experience to building the Herd. She hires the analysts, engineers, and billing specialists who power the platform, so clients are served by people who are all in.
Michael Foote
Michael Foote is a veteran utility billing attorney with more than 15 years in utility recovery, submetering, RUBS, and regulatory policy. He led regulatory services at NWP Services, served as counsel at Zego and Anchor Utility, and has testified before state legislators on utility billing law. At Billee, he keeps clients' billing programs compliant and defensible.
JD Gonzales
JD Gonzales leads innovation and AI at Billee. He helped build Modern Message, the multifamily resident engagement and loyalty platform later acquired by RealPage, giving him hands-on experience building software for apartment operators. Now heading Billee's Data & AI team, he turns utility bills and billing rules into structured, trustworthy data, so clients get faster answers and automation built on accuracy.
Mark Leech
Mark Leech is the billing-domain expert behind Billee's platform. As Architect Lead, he turns deep utility billing knowledge into the systems and reports behind accurate resident billing and partner integrations such as Engrain. His work lets clients trust that every allocation, calculation, and report reflects how utility billing actually works.
David Vedvick
David Vedvick has more than 15 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience and now leads Billee's platform team. He has built the billing backend for reliability and traceability, including an event-driven foundation that records every change and automated testing that keeps releases dependable. For clients, the result is a platform that is stable, auditable, and ready to grow with their portfolios.
Mateen Aini
Mateen Aini leads marketing and growth at Billee. He is a digital executive with broad experience across marketing and business development, and he has built brands and go-to-market engines for both early-stage startups and high-traffic digital companies. Mateen makes sure multifamily owners and operators clearly hear how Billee helps them recover more, spend less, and grow NOI.
