Yext Management

Management criteria checks 2/4

Yext's CEO is Mike Walrath, appointed in Mar 2022, has a tenure of 2.17 years. directly owns 1.14% of the company’s shares, worth $7.95M. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 3.3 years and 14.5 years respectively.

Key information

Mike Walrath

Chief executive officer

US$11.4m

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	n/a
CEO tenure	2.2yrs
CEO ownership	1.1%
Management average tenure	3.3yrs
Board average tenure	14.5yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO

Mike Walrath (47 yo)

2.2yrs

Tenure

US$11,442,362

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	2.2yrs	US$11.44m	1.14% $ 7.9m
Brian Distelburger	Co-Founder & Director	18.3yrs	US$669.60k	2.51% $ 17.4m
Darryl Bond	CFO & Chief Accounting Officer	2.2yrs	US$4.20m	0.24% $ 1.7m
Ho Shin	Executive VP	7.8yrs	US$2.25m	0.11% $ 794.9k
Howard Lerman	Advisor	2.2yrs	US$116.77k	1.28% $ 8.9m
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	1.8yrs	no data	no data
Brian Schipper	Chief People Officer	8yrs	no data	no data
Christian Ward	Executive VP & Chief Data Officer	no data	no data	no data
Tobias Dahm	Senior Vice President- Central Europe	4.4yrs	no data	no data
Eiji Uda	Chairman & CEO of Yext Japan	no data	no data	no data

3.3yrs

Average Tenure

47yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: 0M2Q's management team is considered experienced (3.3 years average tenure).

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Michael Walrath	CEO & Chairman of the Board	14.5yrs	US$11.44m	1.14% $ 7.9m
Brian Distelburger	Co-Founder & Director	18.3yrs	US$669.60k	2.51% $ 17.4m
Greg Naquin	Member of the Advisory Board	no data	no data	no data
Andrew Sheehan	Lead Independent Director	16yrs	US$188.14k	0.29% $ 2.0m
Julie Richardson	Independent Non-Employee Director	9yrs	US$189.91k	0.047% $ 322.9k
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	11.8yrs	US$185.64k	0.31% $ 2.1m

14.5yrs

Average Tenure

47yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: 0M2Q's board of directors are seasoned and experienced ( 14.5 years average tenure).

Yext Management

Management criteria checks 2/4

Key information

Recent management updates

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

Co-Founder & Director recently sold US$419k worth of stock

Independent Non-Employee Director recently bought US$61k worth of stock

Insufficient new directors

Recent updates

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

New minor risk - Insider selling

Now 32% undervalued after recent price drop

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

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

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

Now 37% undervalued after recent price drop

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

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

Now 21% undervalued

Now 22% undervalued

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

Forecast to breakeven in 2026

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 US$419k worth of stock

Independent Non-Employee Director recently bought US$61k 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

Insufficient new directors

Second quarter 2023 earnings released

Insufficient new directors

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 US$99k 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

No longer forecast to breakeven

Insufficient new directors

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

No longer forecast to breakeven

Insider recently bought US$101k 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 US$292k worth of stock

Yext, Inc. Launches Ai-Powered Doctor Finder Solution to Make Searching for Healthcare Providers Seamless Experience

Yext Provides Earnings Guidance for Its Third Fiscal Quarter Ending October 31, 2021 and the Fiscal Year Ending January 31, 2022

Second quarter 2022 earnings released: US$0.22 loss per share (vs US$0.21 loss in 2Q 2021)

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