Leadership Team

Jason began his entrepreneurial career while still an undergraduate at The University of Texas. After interning with a commercial real estate and investments firm in New York, Jason returned to Austin with plans to join a brokerage team. Instead, Jason founded RPM Living to take on a growing portfolio of multifamily and commercial assets, including management contracts for third-party investors acquiring and holding real estate.

Josh manages all aspects of the growing portfolio, overseeing acquisitions, dispositions, debt financing, asset management, and partnership accounting while aggressively searching for new target assets to expand RPM’s geographical reach. Prior to RPM Living Investments, he took numerous assets full-cycle at F&B Capital, which he joined in 2013 after spending five years practicing real estate law in Phoenix. Josh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctorate from Arizona State University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Mr. Mauck is the Chief Financial Officer for RPM Living, where he oversees accounting, finance, and risk management. Jim joined CF Real Estate Services in 2016 as CFO. Prior to this position, Mr. Mauck held the CFO role for Key Property Services, a leader in the institutional single-family rental industry. Mr. Mauck previously served as CFO for Miles Properties, a national owner, property manager and developer of multi-family assets that managed over 20,000 units at its peak. Prior to joining Miles, Mr. Mauck served as VP-Finance for a division of Pulte Homes where he led the finance and HR functions for the division and played a key role in the division's growth. Mr. Mauck has also held the CFO role for an IT services company, various management positions at US Airways and started his career with KPMG. He has a BS in Accounting and Certificate of Double Major in Finance from Virginia Tech. He became a licensed Certified Public Accountant in 1998.

With over 30 years in the multifamily industry, Chad’s experience includes oversight of assets primarily throughout Texas and the Southeast. His operations background comprises garden-style and mid-rise properties through lease-up, stabilization, and value-add periods. Chad holds his Certified Apartment Portfolio Supervisor (CAPS) and Certified Property Manager (CPM®) designations and studied Public Relations at Texas State University.

With more than 20 years in property management operations, Kevin is experienced at working with conventional market rate and affordable communities, and high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients. He is adept at leading large operational teams and managing large portfolios. For the past 12 years, he’s held senior leadership roles, including most recently with CF Real Estate Services.

As Division President, Cynthia oversees operations across RPM’s Central, Southwest, Mountain West, Northwest, and West regions as well as Affordable Housing, Compliance and Portfolio Management nationally. With 17 years’ multifamily experience, she specializes in a variety of asset types including lease-ups, value-add rehabs, and Class A and B garden-style, and mid- and high-rise, with extensive experience in retail management, large portfolio acquisitions, and interior design. Her hyper-focus on her team’s continued development and efforts to grow the firm’s presence have been integral to RPM’s success in the Central region. Previously, Cynthia served as Senior VP at Alliance Residential Company where she oversaw Alliance-owned and third-party assets across the Texas market. She holds her Certified Apartment Manager (CAM) designation as recognized by NAA.

Since joining RPM Living in December 2016, Max has successfully grown the managed portfolio by more than 80,000 units. Today he is responsible for all business development efforts related to the third-party fee management platform. Previously he served as Market Principal at Greystar where he led business development efforts in the central south region and was responsible for the growth of the Austin, Corpus Christi, Midland, and San Antonio markets. He holds a Bachelor of Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

With more than 17 years of marketing and industry experience, Alexis plays an integral role in positioning RPM Living as a differentiator with an overall focus on brand equity. She spearheads all marketing, advertising, communications, BI, and social media initiatives and possesses a high-level understanding of organizational vision, client relations, and strategic enterprise planning due to her skilled background in executive leadership. Prior to joining RPM, Alexis led the development and build-out of the industry’s first ever in-house marketing agency at Alliance Residential and helped grow the organization into a NMHC Top 5 management company.

With over a decade of experience in multifamily operations, administration and program development, Mariana now leads strategic planning, project management, revenue management, transitions and due diligence, and procurement and ancillary services at RPM Living. With a focus on leveraging technology to drive organizational performance, Mariana directs strategic programs that enhance the value of our clients’ assets and RPM’s management services. Mariana holds a Masters degree from the University of Texas at Austin and received her CPM designation in 2015.

Scott oversees the development and implementation of new technologies across RPM Living’s portfolio and managing the corporate infrastructure, property management software solutions and BI division. Previously, Scott led Alliance Residential’s technology department for almost 20 years and has served as moderator and speaker at multiple NMHC tech and MFE conferences and Chair of NMHC’s Systems Technology and Information Management Committee. He holds a Bachelor of Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

Penny is responsible for all human resource functions, recruitment and retention, learning, associate development and engagement, corporate administrative support, and facilities. She and her teams focus on associate programs that encourage job satisfaction, well-being, productivity and longevity. Prior to joining RPM Living, she spent 15 years as the VP of Corporate Services with LSO Regional Shipping Company and 10 years as Managing Partner of her own boutique executive search firm. Penny holds a bachelor’s from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s from the University of Northern Colorado and is a frequent corporate speaker on leadership development.

Anne has spent over 20 years in global corporate companies on three continents in both finance and operational leadership roles. Her diverse background includes working hands-on in finance, information and product technology, acquisitions and integrations, risk, and operations, with a solid understanding of sales and marketing and human resources. A proven change-driver, Anne loves the opportunity to drive company-wide transformations that generate efficiency and growth by focusing heavily on automation and digitization of the finance function as well as harnessing the power of data to deliver forward-looking insight. She is passionate about partnering with the C-suite and playing a critical, strategic role in building resilience and driving a scalable growth-focused business.

Kasi joins RPM from Sneed, Vine, and Perry, a prestigious Austin law firm where she was a shareholder in the real estate practice area. Her expertise includes not only real estate and financing transactions, but also mergers, acquisitions, and business and corporate law. She assists the RPM Investments team and provides legal and strategic guidance to the management company. Kasi obtained her law degree from the University of Texas and her B.A. from Texas Tech University.

With 14 years in digital marketing, brand and media strategy experience, Lindsay focuses on optimizing RPM Living's property marketing team, elevating partnerships and enhancing performance education across all media touchpoints. She has experience managing teams on both the client and agency-side and is highly skilled at media strategy, demographic analysis,  business development and education for performance analytics and marketing KPIs. Prior to joining RPM, Lindsay held leadership positions at multiple large companies and worked with top global and national brands ranging from Samsung, Sprint, LG, PetSmart, ColdStone Creamery, AT&T and Alliance Residential.

Brent is responsible for identifying and analyzing corporate growth opportunities internally through strategy development, and externally through sourcing, evaluating and executing M&A opportunities. He has a proven track record of success in the real estate industry with experience in creating innovative solutions to business problems through the use of leading technology, database architecture, information management, and finance. Brent has an MBA and Master of Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin.

Shanna has spent the last 20 of her 30+ years’ experience in multifamily focused on the risk and insurance management platform. She is responsible for RPM’s master insurance program, risk and contract management, and compliance. Previously, Shanna created and ran the risk and insurance department at CWS Apartment Homes LLC for 18+ years, managing a $2.5B portfolio placement. She is credited with implementing their renter’s insurance platform, OSHA program, and training, as well as establishing and managing a very successful captive program. Shanna studied at St. Edwards University and holds her RIMS-CRMP and CIC designations. In her free time, Shanna enjoys spending time working and hunting with her German shorthaired pointer pups.

Logan has a decade of industry experience and has spent the past nine years with RPM where she started out onsite before moving into a corporate role to assist with takeovers. She is responsible for building out, growing, and overseeing the Transitions and Due Diligence department which manages the entire takeover process for communities onboarding to RPM, as well as disposition management, due diligence, and utility management. The department handled just 20 takeovers in its first year, and in 2021, managed over 200 takeovers. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Paul has been with our collective group since 2013 and provides oversight for the construction division. His background in accounting and structural engineering set the stage for his 30-year career which is comprised of firsthand knowledge within all facets of the residential and commercial building industries including plan development and past ownership of residential and commercial engineering firms. He transitioned into multifamily with a primary focus on management 15 years ago and has continued to provide clients with guidance. Paul prides himself on growing and maintaining successful client partnerships from the inception of property purchases, through asset repositioning and execution of the work itself.

With more than 20 years in multifamily, Shannon has extensive experience operating tax credit, CDBG, HOME, Bond, AHP, RAD, HUD-PRAC 202, Section 8 and many other affordable housing programs. She began her career operating both affordable and conventional communities including new construction throughout the DFW area. Shannon holds designations for Certified Professional of Occupancy, National Compliance Professional, and Housing Credit Certified Professional. As VP of Compliance, she oversees the Affordable Housing Compliance Department and leads the promotion and growth of RPM's affordable arm.

With nearly a decade of multifamily experience, supporting and creating marketing strategies for a variety of verticals including senior, student, affordable, rebrands/repositioned, lease-up, and conventional communities, Victoria brings a unique advantage to her role where she represents Client Services on the Executive Board. She joined RPM in 2017 to help create and build out the Marketing department, growing the team to include regional marketing support and in-house services and assisting in the company’s first rebrand. Prior to joining RPM, Victoria started onsite with Village Green where she was awarded Top 20 Sales Professionals and received national recognition with NAA.

Theresa Sopata joined the company in 2022 and maintains identification and oversight of all new student business opportunities. She is also responsible for establishing and nurturing client relationships. She has over 15 years of successful property management and business development experience that includes student housing, multi-family, commercial and new developments. Prior to joining RPM, Theresa has served in various client services roles where she has been responsible for facilitating key communication with clients to drive portfolio growth, assisting clients with their strategies for asset renovation, consulting on lease-up assets, tracking changing market conditions, and tracking new management technologies. Theresa received a bachelor’s degree in individual and family studies from Miami University in Oxford, OH. Theresa is also a member of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) Emerging Leaders Committee.

Daniel is an analytics leader who loves data and using it to make decisions. Over the past seven years in both multifamily and healthcare, he's helped develop and measure KPIs that drive large-scale performance improvement. Additionally, he’s helped support and grow several corporate analytics transformations to a full stack, big data solution. Daniel has a Master’s of Public Policy focused in Empirical Methodologies and Statistics at UT Austin, a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Texas Health Science Center, and an undergraduate degree in Neurobiology from UT Austin.

Danica has spent the last five years with Alliance Residential Company in a variety of responsible roles, serving as HRIS Project Coordinator, Human Capital Project Manager, Senior Payroll Payroll Manager, and most recently, as the Director of Payroll and People Systems. There, she was instrumental in the implementation of their new UKG System and many its components. Prior to her time with Alliance, Danica was with Blackhawk Network as a Program and Technical Account Manager and with Arizona State University as a Program Coordinator. She holds a B. S. degree in Business Administration from the University of Arizona.

Over her 17-year career, Kim has extensive experience leading and building teams, implementing change management, and assisting with Property Accounting projects. Since joining RPM, Kim has successfully recruited and led the Phoenix Accounting team, onboarded a 30+ asset portfolio, and participated in many new department initiatives. As VP of Property of Accounting, Kim has oversight across the national property accounting team, taking a leading role in department initiatives including cross collaboration with other directors and departments. She is also responsible for the training and recruiting strategy across the greater property accounting team.

As Vice President of Software Support, Dixie oversees the optimization, management, and support of all RPM property management platforms. She has both domestic and international experience in a diverse range of industries including industrial, commercial, retail, corporate, and multi-family real estate. Over the course of her career, Dixie has managed more than 75 property management system implementations and consulted for clients like Republic Industries and Charles Schwab. Prior to joining RPM in 2017, Dixie served in leadership roles at BNY Mellon and Related. She enjoys mentoring new graduates and has established academic scholarships to support community service and healthcare innovation. Dixie is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a degree in Accounting and minor in Computer Science.

Cerwin joined RPM in 2018 as a Regional Facilities Manager with over 24 years’ experience in the multifamily industry in both conventional and student housing. He has a strong passion for our Service teams and diverse experience working with a wide variety of Class A-D assets including garden-style, midrise, high-rise, new construction, and lease-up communities. During his time in student housing, Cerwin oversaw approximately 5,000 beds across 14 buildings on the facilities side in the Austin area. Prior to joining RPM, Cerwin held positions at JPI, Greystar, and American Campus Communities. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Eckerd College.

As Vice President of Client Services, Doug oversees business development in the Southeast Region. He has experience in a range of areas including revenue optimization, strategic planning and implementation, and customer satisfaction. Prior to joining RPM, Doug served as Senior Director leading a team of 10 business development managers across the U.S. Doug enjoys building new relationships and creating successful partnerships that provide value to his clients. He is a graduate of The University of Georgia and a long-time Atlanta resident.

Steve is an accomplished technology leader who continually confronts and solves challenging IT and business problems. His global experience delivering technology solutions spans 30+ years across multiple industries, allowing for a unique technology perspective. Steve’s entrepreneurial spirit and drive for innovation, along with a strong business and engineering acumen, focuses on delivering business solutions that provide customers high performance, adaptability, scalability, and sustainability. Steve is a highly principled relationship builder and team leader who positions organizations for the next stage of growth through collaboration and trust, enhancing individual growth and instilling a culture of success.

Tim is responsible for the management of procurement and ancillary services for RPM. He and his team focus on strategic sourcing, innovation planning, risk management, corporate governance, sustainability, and operational excellence, and creating and managing the next generation of supply programs to improve organizational resiliency, agility, and growth prospects. He has an extensive background in procurement and supply chain management with 30+ years’ experience leading procurement organizations at large global enterprises. Prior to joining RPM, Tim held leadership roles at multiple real estate and property management firms including ServiceMaster, SP+, ABM Industries, Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE. Tim has a bachelor’s from Western Illinois University and holds a CPSM® designation from the Institute for Supply Management.

Kristen is an experienced accounting and finance professional who is passionate about creating meaningful organizational process changes and improvements through collaboration with cross-functional teams. As VP of Accounting Shared Services, Kristen is responsible for building a platform to centralize transactional activities that generate process efficiencies, automation opportunities and support RPM’s future growth. She has experience in senior accounting, FP&A, operations and shared services leadership roles for public and private global companies. Kristen graduated from Manhattan College with a degree in Accounting and holds a Master’s in Business Administration, along with Project Management Professional (PMP) designation and Lean Six Sigma certification.

With over 30 years in the multifamily industry, Jaynee’s experience ranges from operations, training and development, revenue management, software systems, and ancillary services. With a rich background in groundbreaking implementations that blend technology and operational efficiencies.  Jaynee is responsible for building and oversight of centralized services by unifying operational efficiencies, system automation, and cohesive workflows among operations and cross-departments. Prior to joining RPM, Jaynee held leadership positions at Archstone Communities for over 20 years and, most recently, Cottonwood Residential.

Danielle leads our Corporate Marketing team, driving high-touch internal and external communications and creative strategies focused on employee engagement, executive positioning, and corporate and brand messaging that differentiates RPM Living and its operational support specialties in the marketplace. A former magazine editor, Danielle shifted into the multifamily space in 2010 and has spent the past 13 years unpacking the property management approach to public relations and corporate communications, shaping it with a storytelling lens that focuses on the how, when and why to build brand equity, support successful change management, and generate engagement and understanding across a variety of audiences. Prior to joining RPM, Danielle developed and led the PR/communications approach at Alliance Residential Company and helped to build an internal marketing communications and creative function within Greystar’s property management division. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University.