Vend built the parking company that property owners always needed

Syed leads Strategy & Operations at Vend Park, overseeing launch operations, customer success, product operations, and partner success for all Vend-operated garages. His work ensures seamless execution across multiple business functions, driving Vend Park’s expansion and operational excellence. Before Vend Park, Syed helped Valon Technologies launch its insurance business and worked on GTM strategy as a consultant. At DoorDash, he led the launch of the Dasher Shop & Delivery platform, enabling the company to scale new verticals—grocery, alcohol, retail—reaching 1M orders per week within 2.5 years. Syed’s ability to align strategy with execution ensures that Vend Park scales efficiently while maintaining exceptional customer experiences.

Anna is the Head of Support at Vend Park, leading the charge in building a scalable, high-impact customer support organization. She collaborates closely with product and engineering teams to enhance platform capabilities, applying her deep expertise in UX/UI to refine user experiences. Her hands-on approach ensures seamless onboarding, operational efficiency, and customer-centric support that scales with Vend Park’s rapid growth. Prior to Vend Park, Anna spent nearly a decade at Uber, where she spearheaded high-impact initiatives in operations and driver engagement. As a Senior Program Manager, she scaled Uber’s North American Proactive Outreach Program from 20 to 350+ agents, reducing support costs by 65% through international outsourcing. Her strategies increased driver engagement by 25% and optimized direct outreach to over 2 million drivers annually through automation, chatbots, and data-driven communications. She also built and led a Voice of the Customer (VoC) team, driving critical product and policy changes.

As Head of Design at Vend Park, Gus leads all UX/UI efforts, shaping seamless digital and physical experiences. A founding team member since 2015, he played a key role in developing Vend Park’s first mobile payment solution for valet parking and has since built the design systems that power the platform’s expansion. Gus oversees all aspects of Vend Park’s design across digital products—including the mobile app, dashboard, SmartKiosk, and documentation—as well as physical assets like signage and kiosk interfaces. His structured approach ensures a cohesive user experience that scales effortlessly as Vend Park grows. Before Vend Park, Gus was a Senior UX Designer at Autodesk, where he enhanced user management experiences. His ability to integrate design thinking with operational execution ensures that Vend Park delivers a frictionless parking experience for drivers and operators alike.

Nikki Blank leads marketing at Vend Park, owning the brand, demand generation, and the story Vend tells to institutional real estate owners. Since joining as Head of Marketing in September 2026, she has focused on sharpening how Vend communicates its integrated model of technology and operations, and on building the marketing engine that will support the company's next stage of growth. Nikki brings more than a decade of brand and growth experience across B2B and consumer companies. Before Vend Park, she was Brand Innovation Manager at Downeast Cider House and Head of Marketing at Torch & Crown Brewing Company in New York. She previously served as Brand Manager at Order.co, a B2B procurement platform, and as Marketing Manager at Lunar Solar Group. Earlier, she founded and ran sunōmi switchel, a beverage brand she built from the ground up, and began her career in editorial and media at Harvard Business Review and WGBH in Boston. A builder at heart, Nikki pairs founder-level hustle with a disciplined approach to brand strategy. Her experience launching products, building brands from scratch, and scaling B2B marketing makes her well suited to turning Vend Park's operating results into a clear, compelling message for the market.

Justin Wei leads Go-To-Market AI at Vend Park, where he owns the systems and AI-driven tooling behind pipeline generation, sales execution, and revenue reporting. Since joining in May 2026, he has built Vend's GTM infrastructure on HubSpot and layered on automation that helps the sales team find, prioritize, and win the right institutional accounts. Before Vend Park, Justin spent nearly four years at Motive as a Strategy & Growth Manager. There he pioneered AI-driven growth initiatives that improved sales efficiency across SMB, mid-market, and commercial segments, built a centralized GTM reporting platform adopted across the go-to-market organization from analysts through the CRO, and led development of a proprietary account-routing engine that lifted sales-qualified opportunity rates by 14% quarter over quarter. He also managed and scaled a 15-person team of managers, data engineers, and analysts. Justin is a graduate of the University of California San Diego. Justin sits at the intersection of revenue strategy and technical execution. His ability to turn data and AI into practical tools for sellers gives Vend Park a scalable foundation for growing pipeline efficiently as the team expands.

Tyler Valenti leads finance at Vend Park, overseeing FP&A, billing, and board and investor reporting. Since joining in July 2026, he has focused on building the financial planning and reporting rigor that supports Vend's growth and gives leadership, the board, and investors clear visibility into performance. Before Vend Park, Tyler spent more than three years at NBCUniversal, most recently as Finance Director for Enterprise Products and Generative AI. In that role he led forecasting, close, budget, and long-range planning across roughly $210M of annual spend, and partnered with AI strategy and executive leadership to build value-realization frameworks for five enterprise AI initiatives with more than $200M in projected run-rate benefits. His analyses were presented to NBCU's CFO leadership. Tyler combines big-company financial discipline with a builder's mindset. His experience translating complex technology investments into clear business cases helps Vend Park make sharper capital decisions as it scales.

Justin Gluck leads sales across the West Coast and Vend Park's strategic accounts from Los Angeles. Since joining in August 2025, he has driven relationships with Vend's largest and most complex property owners, helping them consolidate parking technology and operations onto a single accountable platform. Before Vend Park, Justin spent nearly four years at Metropolis, the computer-vision parking platform, where he rose from Growth and Revenue Manager to Director of Business Development and Deployment, leading new-business growth and the rollout of sites in the Los Angeles market. Previously, he spent more than three years at WeWork, progressing from Sales Development Lead in New York to Account Manager and Leasing Manager in Los Angeles. With deep experience in both parking technology and commercial real estate, Justin understands what owners need to see before they change operators. His mix of deal leadership and hands-on deployment experience makes him a trusted partner from first conversation through go-live.

Clayton Whitt leads sales across Vend Park's Central region from the Dallas area. Since joining in 2025, he has built Vend's presence with owners and operators across the region, bringing a disciplined new-business motion to one of the company's fastest-growing markets. Before Vend Park, Clayton spent more than six years at ParkHub (now JustPark), the parking technology company. He started as a Sales Development Representative in 2019 and was promoted to SDR Team Lead, Director of New Business Development, and ultimately Vice President of Business Development, a role he held for more than four years. Clayton is a graduate of the University of North Texas. Having grown from the front line of parking-technology sales to running business development, Clayton knows the category, the buyer, and the sales motion inside and out. That depth helps Vend Park win and expand accounts across the Central region.

Matt Detore leads onboarding at Vend Park, taking new garages from signed contract to live operation. Since joining in July 2025, he has built the processes and team that make Vend's launches fast, predictable, and smooth for property owners, tenants, and drivers. Before Vend Park, Matt was an Account Director at EventLink, where he began on the Jack Morton/General Motors account managing the South Central region. He rebuilt the team, streamlined processes, and doubled the region's business within a year, then took on the North Central and Northeast regions and replicated those results. Toward the end of his tenure he also supported new business development, contributing to pitches, proposals, and new client launches. Matt holds an MBA. A proven team-builder with a talent for turning around complex, multi-region operations, Matt brings structure and accountability to every launch. His focus on execution ensures Vend Park's growth translates into consistently successful go-lives.

Abdullah joined Vend Park in July 2026 as Head of Onboarding, East, based in New York. He brings an implementation background from Xeal and EvolutionIQ.

Clay Evans leads implementations for Vend Park on the West Coast, managing the design, installation, and launch of Vend's technology at new sites. He joined Vend in 2026. Clay brings more than a decade of experience in parking operations and parking technology. Before Vend Park, he was West Coast Construction Sales Manager at Flash, where he generated $13M in lifetime sales. Previously, he spent five years at Indect USA, a parking guidance systems provider, as a Project Engineer spanning outside sales, project engineering, and project management, and began his career as a City Manager at Premier Parking. Clay's combination of hands-on garage operations, technical project engineering, and construction know-how gives him a practical view of what it takes to deploy technology in real-world facilities. That experience helps Vend deliver clean, on-time installs across the West Coast.

Mike Miele is leading Vend Park into the future, transforming outdated parking operations into a seamless, technology-driven experience that maximizes revenue for real estate owners. As co-founder and CEO, he has built a capital-efficient, high-growth company that replaces fragmented legacy systems with a modern, automated platform designed to increase NOI and enhance user experience. His ability to align technology with real estate economics has made Vend Park a trusted partner for top property owners, positioning it as a leader in the industry’s shift toward smarter, more profitable parking solutions. Before launching Vend Park, Mike founded and scaled two successful ventures. He cofounded SpotLight Parking, an on-demand valet platform that exposed the inefficiencies of traditional parking, laying the groundwork for Vend’s data-driven model. He also built Modern Capital, a consulting firm in the nonprofit space, growing it to $10M in recurring revenue before turning his full focus to disrupting parking technology. A natural leader with a relentless drive to solve complex operational challenges, Mike thrives in high-growth environments, where he brings together technology, strategy, and execution. His ability to rally teams and move fast has been instrumental in turning Vend Park from an idea into an industry-changing force, proving that the right technology can unlock untapped value in real estate.

Karan Singhal is the co-founder and CTO of Vend Park, leading technology strategy, product innovation, and engineering execution. With expertise in real-time systems, IoT, and cloud-native architecture, he built Vend Park’s platform from the ground up, integrating cutting-edge software and hardware to transform parking management. Karan began his career at Glassight Technologies, where he rose from intern to CTO in nine months, pioneering enterprise software adopted by brands like Home Depot and Chase Bank. After Glassight’s acquisition, he co-founded SpotLight Parking, an on-demand valet platform that laid the groundwork for Vend Park by exposing inefficiencies in traditional parking operations. Since founding Vend Park in 2019, Karan has been the technical architect behind the company’s success, developing proprietary hardware like GateKit and SmartSign kiosks and implementing IoT-powered automation. For much of Vend’s early years, he was a one-man engineering team, building the foundation that powers Vend today. Now, with a growing engineering team, he focuses on platform scalability and long-term vision to redefine not just parking, but the entire property management ecosystem and how our company operates. Karan’s leadership has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 (Boston, 2023) and National Parking Association 40 Under 40 (2020) for his contributions to urban mobility. When he’s not innovating, he’s cooking Michelin-worthy meals for the team—bringing the same precision to the kitchen as he does to engineering.

As Vend Park’s COO, Pritesh drives operational efficiency and customer experience for property owners, tenants, and visitors. With two decades of experience scaling B2B and B2C marketplaces, he brings strategic leadership to Vend Park’s growth initiatives. Previously, Pritesh held leadership roles at Uber, OYO, and Slice, leading high-impact projects like UberPOOL London, OYO’s expansion from 60 to 300 U.S. properties, and scaling a new Slice business unit to a $10M run rate in 18 months. His ability to build and scale high-growth operations ensures Vend Park remains at the forefront of parking innovation.

As Head of Sales at Vend Park, Tony leads all sales and GTM functions, driving revenue growth through direct sales, channel partnerships, and strategic alliances. With over 20 years of experience across commercial real estate and technology, he brings a track record of scaling high-growth businesses. Before Vend Park, Tony served as Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at ParkHub, where he was employee #5 and led all customer-facing teams. He grew recurring revenue from $0 to $17M, achieved 115% Net Revenue Retention, and oversaw a team of 50+ across sales, marketing, customer success, and support, leading to the company’s successful exit to LLR Partners in 2022. Recognized as a Dallas Business Journal “40 Under 40” honoree at age 24, Tony also holds a U.S. patent for a user validation system. His expertise in scaling revenue operations ensures Vend Park’s continued market expansion and financial success.