The Minds Behind RASI

We’re a team of experts with highly specialized skills in accounting and finance, aiding restaurant owners and operators to find financial success.

Leadership

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Operating Officer

Chief Marketing Officer

Chief Business Officer

Chief Technical Officer

Matt Vannini

Chief Executive Officer

A fourth-generation restaurateur who is well versed in the restaurant industry. After successfully running and eventually selling his own operations, went on to work for Corporate Red Robin, training on-site GMs on effective restaurant management and operations. Previously worked for Aloha POS as a Program Manager, increasing knowledge of BOH software and how to effectively integrate such systems into everyday operations.

Dan Jacobs

Chief Operating Officer

A tenured expert in the restaurant industry building long standing relationships with numerous QSR/TSR, single, and multi-unit operations for 20+ years in various leadership roles. Previously worked across North America implementing MICROS, Aloha, Digital Dining, and their respective back-office enterprise applications into SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise hospitality.

Lauren Noreen

Chief Marketing Officer

Lauren began her career at RASI 8 years ago. She is well versed in all aspects of digital marketing to create highly effective conversion strategies. She is experienced in working across departments and engaging with partners to build captivating, thought-provoking, content, and cohesive brand awareness in order to engage new customers; including, curating a complete company rebrand in January 2021 to reflect adaptation and growth related to newly imposed industry-specific needs.

James Temple, CPA

Chief Business Officer

Technology Executive and Business model expert with strategy, operations, finance, capital raising, and M&A background focused on building customer and shareholder value. Experience in tech with start-up through mature revenue/product, international expansion and turnaround experience. Entity size startup to $100M + in annual revenues private and publicly held.

Bryan Starbuck

Chief Technical Officer

13 years of entrepreneurial experience building out FinTech and B2B Enterprise SaaS companies with a high ratio of success. Focus is on AI, ML and intelligent algorithm-based strategies to best serve a market. Former CEO of TalentSpring (acquired in 2010).

Directors

Client Advisors

Portfolio Managers

Our Teams

Accounting Team

Our accountants incorporate their vast knowledge of accounting principles into the restaurant industry. They utilize the RASI system to translate various restaurant tasks into financial statements.

Bank Reconciliation

Our bank rec’ers are versed on restaurants' bank recs issues, so they can quickly detect any discrepancies and isolate opportunities to ensure accuracy. They also use reconciliations as security measures to detect fraud or theft.

Client Advisors

Our training team consists of ex-restaurant GM’s, executive chefs and owners; they know the restaurant business inside and out. They use their expert experience to share best practices, and empower restaurateurs with RASI’s dynamic tools.

Conversion Accountants

Our conversion accountants are experts in forensic accounting enabling them to create comprehensible reports from literal shoeboxes and self-taught prior books. They ensure that your experience with RASI starts seamlessly.

Tax Team

Our tax team consists of certified, highly trained specialists with expertise on tax regulations for the hospitality industry. With 25+ years of combined experience in processing taxes in almost every US state, they can ensure that we are staying abreast of all tax laws.

Engineering Team

Our Engineering Team built and supports our proprietary Restaurant Accounting System. They bring a vast amount of experience and knowledge working with POS systems and POS data, so our clients can streamline everything from POS to IRS.

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The Minds Behind RASI