Leading global provider of residential community and student housing software – StarRez – announces two new executive leadership appointments to support its rapid growth and global expansion. Jason Day has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer and Monique Wallick as Chief People Officer.The new roles intend to foster operational excellence, support sustainable growth, enhance the customer experience, and improve student and resident life globally.
Monique joins StarRez from Solera, a technology company where she served as Vice President, Talent, Total Rewards, & HR Systems. Prior to joining Solera, Monique served as Vice President, Total Rewards & Mergers/Acquisitions for the Freeman Company and Director, HR Business Partner & Shared Services for Galderma Laboratories (A Nestle Company). Monique has a BS in Mathematics from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, and an MBA in Business/Finance from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University).
“I am very excited to be joining StarRez and looking forward to continuing the amazing culture while accelerating growth to improve the lives of students and residents around the world.”
Monique Wallick, Chief People Officer
Jason has significant experience in PropTech and EdTech. Previous experience saw Jason lead the revenue team at Zego as they delivered payment, utility, and resident experience solutions to the multifamily and single-family markets. Prior to this, Jason was at Accruent (EMS, Famis), a leader in real estate and facilities management solutions. Jason studied at Texas A&M University and supports The Mays Business School and the Reynolds & Reynolds Sales Institute in the education and training of the next generation of sales professionals.
“StarRez provides a world-class set of solutions to address the needs/challenges in the student housing market, and I’m thrilled to join the StarRez team and drive the go-to-market organisation forward as we improve residential communities.”
Jason Day, Chief Revenue Officer, StarRez
StarRez has a strong team of over 200 people across the USA, Canada, UK and Australia. The company offers remote flexibility but also maintains two headquarter offices in Denver, Colorado and Melbourne, Australia. They are searching for people to join the team as they expand and have several opportunities currently open to applications.
“We are really excited to welcome two very experienced and passionate leaders to our executive leadership team. We love finding great people that really believe in our values and our north star to be the platform for thriving residential communities. Jason joins our established strong team of leaders and will help us to expand our new business reach and ensure our community have a great experience as we scale up. Monique loves the culture that has been in our DNA for 30+ years and is going to help us achieve our goals to expand the StarRez team whilst also enhancing our diversity, inclusion and environmental sustainability.”
Travis Knipe, CEO, StarRez
StarRez’s industry-leading proprietary platform caters to purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), student property management, higher education, Build to Rent, Co-living, staff housing, boarding schools and conferences and events. The platform provides solutions to manage the resident experience, occupancy, bookings, roommate matching, reporting, conferences, wellness, revenue and more.
In February 2022, StarRez also welcomed another market leader – Adirondack Solutions – into the StarRez family, and now manages over 1,100 customers and over 2.7 million beds in over 20 countries. The organisations they serve include PBSA providers iQ Student Accommodation and Scape Living, Harvard University, Stanford University, National University of Singapore, University of London, Australian National University, Vail Ski Resorts (Staff Housing).
