Mr. Dirk Wakeham serves as Chief Executive Officer at Paylease. He serves as a Managing Director, Private Equity Foundation. He joins PayLease from a leadership position at Kibo, where he has been responsible for driving the transformation, best practices, and customer experience. He also served as Managing Director at Westlake Venture Partners. He also is an Angel Investor. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Lanyon. He served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Kibo Software. Additionally, he is responsible for several key strategic products including Cloud Technologies and eProcurement as well as sales and marketing. Prior to joining RealPage, he served as president and CEO of LeasingDesk, which was acquired by RealPage in April 2007, where he developed the flagship renters insurance product. LeasingDesk pioneered the offering of point-of-lease insurance programs for multi-family portfolios. He's also served as senior vice president at Western National Group where he was responsible for the management and deployment of enterprise systems focused on the management and operation of a diverse multifamily portfolio. He served as Advisor at Anyone Home. He also served as Advisor at Rentlytics. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting, from California State University.