About iLease Management LLC

John co-founded iLease Management LLC and serves as its Managing Partner. He directs the firm's overall strategy and the management of its technology.

John has over 25 years of experience in the strategic management of commercial real estate investment and technology in the financial services industry. Before iLease, he was Managing Director and CIO of a private equity firm based in Massachusetts. That firm acquired over $1 billion in commercial real estate assets across North America.

His main duties there included information management, business process improvement, investment sales, client management, acquisition due diligence, and asset management. John has held a Massachusetts Real Estate license, NASD Series 7 and 63 licenses, and PMI PMP certification.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Saint Anselm College. He also holds a Master's in Information Technology from the Van Loan School at Endicott College.

Dan Gode is the cofounder of Almaris Consulting and Training and a clinical professor at NYU Stern. His focus is accounting for leases, income taxes, acquisitions, share-based compensation, cash flow statements, foreign operations, and forensic accounting.

He has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies and with smaller private firms. Dan teaches courses in corporate financial reporting, financial analysis, valuation, modeling, strategy, and taxes. He teaches them at investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity groups. He also teaches at corporations and in the KPMG Executive Education program.

Dan received his BS in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. He received an MS and Ph.D. in accounting and information systems from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. He has won several teaching awards. He also keeps receiving top evaluations for the clear, lively, and practical way he presents complex financial topics.

Ms. Murphy spent 23 years at Brookwood Financial Partners, a Real Estate Private Equity firm based in Massachusetts. She was an Asset Manager for the firm's commercial real estate portfolios. She was in charge of leasing, financial analysis, budgeting, and business plan execution in regions across the United States.

Before Brookwood, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of the First National Bank of Ipswich, a publicly traded community bank. Before that, Ms. Murphy was a Vice President and Senior Lender in the Specialized Industries Group at Bank of Boston. There she analyzed, structured, and managed senior and subordinated debt instruments. She also worked as a Senior Asset Recovery Specialist, helping troubled borrowers restructure credit and dispose of assets.

Ms. Murphy is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She received the YMCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award. She also holds a PCC designation (Professionally Certified Coach) from the International Coaching Federation.

Bill is Chairman and EVP of TLX Inc, a company he co-founded. TLX offers an automated solution for airlines to manage their crew hotel layover process. He was COO and EVP of Best Western International, the world's largest hotel chain. He was also Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing at ITT Sheraton Corporation.

He has served on the boards of private companies such as Passkey Inc and of public companies including Micros Systems Inc and Signature Inns. Bill was also Chairman and Vice Chairman of Pegasus Systems, Inc., and of the holding company for The Hotel Industry Switch Company (THISCO) and the Hotel Clearing Corporation (HCC).

Dan Tapscott cited his work in developing THISCO in his book, The Paradigm Shift. He called it one of the top ten examples of "having the visionary thinking required for success in today's world of electronic marketing."

Jason holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology. His experience is highly technical and widely varied.

His career includes research and development of digital electronics and laser radar systems for the Department of Defense. He also developed satellite-based lasers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Those lasers support studies of the Earth's changing climate and global ice caps.

More recently, he co-founded Adfluence, Inc. and ran it for over 8 years. Adfluence created data-driven marketing technologies for financial institutions nationwide. In 2013, Code Green joined Welch ATM to grow the CodeGreen offerings and apply their marketing technology approaches to the ATM industry.

Spicer is the CEO of Cloudmanic Labs in Portland, Oregon, a firm that builds cloud-based software. Cloudmanic has developed Skyclerk, an accounting and bookkeeping tool; Heapless, which supports a paperless office; and Evermanic, which makes Evernote note taking simpler.

Cloudmanic Labs is the developer of iLeasePro. As Technical Advisor, Spicer helps iLease Management LLC keep the software working and performing at its best in the cloud.

Sean, one of the original co-founders of iLease Management LLC, has retired but still serves as an advisor. He retired from KPMG LLP in 2008 after 35 years with the firm.

At KPMG, Sean was Managing Partner of the Hartford, Connecticut office and Partner in Charge of the Firm's Northeast Real Estate Practice. His client work focused on financial services and included major national and regional financial services firms.

From 2008 to 2010, Sean was Senior Vice President of a major technology company. There he had overall charge of two of the company's technology solutions for real estate managers and commercial and residential lenders. He is a CPA and holds a Bachelor's degree from Fordham College.