Leadership

Christine Evans, CMCA®, PCAM®

President & CEO Close

Christine, CMCA, PCAM, was with Vanguard Community Management (winner of Associa's Office of the Year in 2004 and runner up in 2007) for twenty... Learn more four years, until being promoted to the position of Regional Vice President with Associa in 2008, and has now returned to Vanguard as its President and CEO, while still maintaining a portfolio of companies based in Florida and Illinois, as a RVP. Christine is a regular contributor to trade magazines, newspaper articles and trade association seminars. Christine was instrumental in the creation of the customer service procedures used by many Associa member companies as well as pioneered the home based manager model.

Donald Kekstadt, AMS®, PCAM®

Executive Vice President Close

Mr. Kekstadt is a real estate management professional with 30 years experience leading, steering and directing all aspects of residential and... Learn more multifamily community association operations. With strong interpersonal and communication skills, Don is able to establish, build and maintain productive relationships with clients, vendors, and agencies. He is currently a Board Member of the State of Illinois Licensing Board as well as VP of the Illinois Chapter for the Community Association Institute.

Daneen Reinke

Vice President Close

Daneen has been with Vanguard for eighteen years and is responsible for Vanguard's corporate accounting and is the head of Human Resources. Daneen... Learn more also oversees VCM's Customer Service Department.

Craig Koss

Senior Vice President, Accounting Liaison Close

Koss is responsible for the oversight of 13 Associa branch offices throughout the United States. His responsibilities in this capacity include... Learn more serving as a mentor to the branch CEO’s to help them achieve Associa’s core corporate objectives as well as uphold Associa corporate policies. Koss also educates each CEO in a variety of areas including how to improve company performance, business planning and innovation.

Additionally, Koss serves as the SVP liaison to the corporate accounting department and is the business analyst for the SVP team, as well as participating on the Associa Education Committee. Koss previously served as the CEO of Kramer-Triad Management Group in Michigan and has worked in the community association management industry for nearly 30 years, including 17 years with Kramer-Triad. He was promoted to RVP in 2008.

Koss holds both the AMS and PCAM designations from the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and previously served on the Education Committee and Managers Networking Committee for CAI. He was also an inaugural board member and served five years on CAI’s Association of Professional Community Managers (APCM). He was appointed to CAI’s board of Trustees and is a current member of the CAI Designation Ethics Committee. Koss received CAI’s Excellence Award in 2006.

An inaugural member of the Associa Ambassadors Circle, Koss and his wife are the parents of two children. He enjoys boating, hunting, fishing, but has one true passion – Michigan Football.

Favorite Quote – “What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be Champions.” – Bo Schembechler