Yext Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Yext's CEO is Mike Walrath, appointed in Mar 2022, has a tenure of 2.67 years. directly owns 1.12% of the company’s shares, worth €11.45M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 3.8 years and 15 years respectively.

Key information

Mike Walrath

Chief executive officer

US$7.6m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	n/a
CEO tenure	2.7yrs
CEO ownership	1.1%
Management average tenure	3.8yrs
Board average tenure	15yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO

Mike Walrath (48 yo)

2.7yrs

Tenure

US$7,596,569

Compensation

Mr. Michael Walrath, also known as Mike, serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board and Director at Yext, Inc. since March 25, 2022 and served as its Independent Chairman of the Board and Ind...

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Michael Walrath	CEO & Chairman of the Board	2.7yrs	US$7.60m	1.12% € 11.5m
Brian Distelburger	Co-Founder & Director	18.8yrs	no data	2.48% € 25.4m
Darryl Bond	CFO & Chief Accounting Officer	2.7yrs	US$1.51m	0.28% € 2.9m
Ho Shin	Executive VP	8.3yrs	US$929.11k	0.11% € 1.1m
Jason Lafollette	Executive VP & CTO	no data	no data	no data
Nils Erdmann	Senior Vice President of Investor Relations	no data	no data	no data
Raianne Reiss	Chief Marketing Officer	2.3yrs	no data	no data
Brian Schipper	Chief People Officer	8.5yrs	no data	no data
Howard Lerman	Advisor	2.7yrs	US$116.77k	no data
Christian Ward	Executive VP & Chief Data Officer	no data	no data	no data
Tobias Dahm	Senior Vice President- Central Europe	4.9yrs	no data	no data
Eiji Uda	Chairman & CEO of Yext Japan	no data	no data	no data

3.8yrs

Average Tenure

48yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: 0YE's management team is considered experienced (3.8 years average tenure).

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Michael Walrath	CEO & Chairman of the Board	15yrs	US$7.60m	1.12% € 11.5m
Brian Distelburger	Co-Founder & Director	18.8yrs	no data	2.48% € 25.4m
Greg Naquin	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Andrew Sheehan	Lead Independent Director	16.5yrs	US$337.47k	0.30% € 3.1m
Julie Richardson	Independent Non-Employee Director	9.5yrs	US$330.22k	0.052% € 529.0k
Bruce Little	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Rick Mattoon	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Rex Richard	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Joseph Cirruzzo	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Cynthia Vaughn	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Ronald Lepow	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Jesse Lipson	Independent Non-Employee Director	12.3yrs	US$321.47k	0.31% € 3.2m

15.0yrs

Average Tenure

48yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: 0YE's board of directors are seasoned and experienced ( 15 years average tenure).

Yext Management

Management criteria checks 3/4

Key information

Recent management updates

Insider recently bought €195k worth of stock

Yext, Inc. Appoints Mark Davis to Its Board of Directors

Executive VP recently sold €84k worth of stock

Yext, Inc., Annual General Meeting, Jun 12, 2024

Yext, Inc. Announces Resignation of Marc Ferrentino as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company Effective September 30, 2023

Yext, Inc. Appoints Tzi-Kei Wong Chief Product Officer

Recent updates

Yext, Inc. Expands AI Review Generation to Include Third-Party Sites

Insider recently bought €195k worth of stock

Second quarter 2025 earnings released: US$0.032 loss per share (vs US$0.028 loss in 2Q 2024)

New minor risk - Shareholder dilution

Yext, Inc. Adjusts Earnings Guidance for the Year 2025

Yext, Inc. to Report Q2, 2025 Results on Sep 04, 2024

Yext, Inc. Appoints Mark Davis to Its Board of Directors

Executive VP recently sold €84k worth of stock

First quarter 2025 earnings released: US$0.03 loss per share (vs US$0.003 loss in 1Q 2024)

Yext, Inc. to Report Q1, 2025 Results on Jun 10, 2024

Yext, Inc., Annual General Meeting, Jun 12, 2024

Locafy Launches Hotfrog Proximity Page Application Built in Collaboration with Yext

New minor risk - Shareholder dilution

Full year 2024 earnings released: US$0.021 loss per share (vs US$0.53 loss in FY 2023)

Forecast breakeven date moved forward to 2025

Yext, Inc. to Report Q4, 2024 Results on Mar 06, 2024

Third quarter 2024 earnings released: US$0.004 loss per share (vs US$0.10 loss in 3Q 2023)

Yext, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year of 2024

Yext, Inc. to Report Q3, 2024 Results on Dec 05, 2023

Yext, Inc. Announces Resignation of Marc Ferrentino as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company Effective September 30, 2023

Second quarter 2024 earnings released: US$0.028 loss per share (vs US$0.16 loss in 2Q 2023)

Yext, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Third Fiscal Quarter Ending October 31, 2023 and Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 2024

Yext, Inc. to Report Q2, 2024 Results on Sep 06, 2023

Yext, Inc. Appoints Tzi-Kei Wong Chief Product Officer

Now 20% undervalued

Yext Releases Yext Content, the Headless Cms Built on Foundation of Ai

Forecast to breakeven in 2026

New major risk - Share price stability

First quarter 2024 earnings released: US$0.003 loss per share (vs US$0.20 loss in 1Q 2023)

Yext, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Second Fiscal Quarter Ending July 31, 2023 and Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 2024

Yext, Inc. to Report Q1, 2024 Results on Jun 06, 2023

Full year 2023 earnings released: US$0.53 loss per share (vs US$0.73 loss in FY 2022)

Yext, Inc. Announces the Launch of Yext Chat, A New Product That Empowers Organizations to Create Conversational Experiences with Cutting-Edge AI

Yext, Inc. Launches Integration with Apple Business Connect

Co-Founder & Director recently sold €394k worth of stock

Independent Non-Employee Director recently bought €58k worth of stock

Third quarter 2023 earnings released: US$0.10 loss per share (vs US$0.19 loss in 3Q 2022)

Yext, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Fourth Quarter and the Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 2023

Insufficient new directors

Yext, Inc. to Report Q3, 2023 Results on Nov 30, 2022

Yext, Inc Search Launches in AWS Marketplace

Yext, Inc. Announces Resignation of Brian Distelburger as Chief Revenue Officer

Yext, Inc. Announces Executive Changes

Yext, Inc. Appoints Evan Skorpen to Board of Directors

Second quarter 2023 earnings released: US$0.16 loss per share (vs US$0.22 loss in 2Q 2022)

Yext, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Third Fiscal Quarter Ending October 31, 2022; and the Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 2023

Yext, Inc. to Report Q2, 2023 Results on Sep 07, 2022

The Klein Law Firm Announces Class Action Complaint Has Been Filed on Yext, Inc

Yext Introduces New Listings Features, Custom Pages Development Tools, AI Data Cleaning, and More in Summer '22 Release

Executive VP recently sold €97k worth of stock

Yext, Inc. Announces Executive Changes

Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces the Filing of a Securities Class Action on Behalf of Yext, Inc. Investors

Pomerantz Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Against Yext, Inc. and Certain Former Officers

First quarter 2023 earnings released: US$0.20 loss per share (vs US$0.14 loss in 1Q 2022)

Yext, Inc. Provides Earnings Guidance for the Second Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2023

Yext, Inc. to Report Q1, 2023 Results on Jun 08, 2022

Yext, Inc. Significantly Improves Functionality and Ease of Use with New Platform Features

Yext, Inc., Annual General Meeting, Jun 14, 2022

Insufficient new directors

Insider recently bought €92k worth of stock

Yext, Inc. Provides Revenue Guidance for the First Quarter and Full Year Ending January 31, 2023

Full year 2022 earnings: Revenues and EPS in line with analyst expectations

Yext, Inc. to Report Q4, 2022 Results on Mar 08, 2022

Forecast to breakeven in 2025

Yext, Inc. Announces General Availability of its Winter '21 Release

Yext Introduces Consumer Authorization, Answers Developer Tools, Advanced Listings Controls, and Connectors Updates to Further Enable Ai Search Across the Enterprise

Third quarter 2022 earnings: EPS in line with analyst expectations despite revenue beat

Yext, Inc. Provides Revenue Guidance for Fourth Quarter Ending January 31, 2022 and Full Year 2022

Chief Accounting Officer recently sold €247k worth of stock