Rob Teel is the CEO of Yardi, the property management and real estate investment software company founded in 1984 whose platform serves owners and operators of commercial and residential space worldwide. He joined Yardi in 2003 and spent more than two decades leading its Global Solutions business, overseeing product direction, services, and client relationships across investment management, international, and commercial property owners before being appointed CEO in January 2026. Before Yardi, he was a consulting manager at Accenture focused on ERP and business process outsourcing, where he managed multinational systems implementations for Fortune 100 organizations. Rob is based in Santa Barbara.
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