Dana Jones

Dana Jones

CEO, RealPage; Former CEO, Sparta Systems

Dana Jones has served as a member of the Zapata Board since June 2021. She is the Chief Executive Officer, President, and a director of RealPage, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: RP and now private) (“RealPage”) an enterprise software company serving the real estate industry, where she also served as a member of its audit committee and compensation committee from October 2019 to April 2021 when RealPage was a public company. Dana has also served as a director of Agilysys Inc., an enterprise software as a service company serving the hospitality industry, since April 2019, where she currently serves on its audit committee and is chair of the compensation committee. Prior to RealPage, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Sparta Systems (“Sparta”), an enterprise quality management software provider, from April 2018 until March 2021, when Sparta was acquired by Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON). Prior to joining Sparta in April 2018, Dana served as Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of Active Network, LLC (“Active Network”), a leader in activity and event management software, from September 2016 to September 2017 when Active Network was acquired by Global Payments (NYSE: GPN). Before joining Active Network, from 2012 to 2017, she was Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Products for Sabre Airline Solutions (“Sabre”), a global provider of software to the airline industry. Prior to Sabre, Dana co-founded Noesis Energy, Inc., and served as Executive Vice President of Product, Sales, Marketing, and Operations. She has held Executive and General Management positions for early stage and global publicly traded enterprise software companies over the last 20 years, including the Reynolds Company and Vignette Corporation. Dana started her career as a management consultant with A.T. Kearney, Inc. and graduated Summa Cum Laude and holds a B.S.E in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan.