Meet The Crew
Our goal every day is to improve the lives of our clients, residents, and the community we serve. We strive to provide impeccable service to all.
Please meet the team of professionals who wake up every morning to make the world a better place by doing their jobs incredibly well.
Jeremy Aspen
President and Principal
Jeremy has a small obsession with aviation and tortilla chips. He likes Neil Diamond and fishing with his daughters. As a member of the Omaha Zoning Board of Appeals he is a good resource on local development. Jeremy wakes up every morning thinking about how to improve the lives of his clients, residents and employees.
Emerson Bostrom
Certified Property Manager and Principal
Emerson is better than you at Karaoke. He is our resident thespian and has played the sleazy salesman in the Music Man, and the Cat in the Hat. We try not to let his talent make us all feel mediocre in comparison, but at times it is difficult.
Gwenn Aspen
Principal
Gwenn is crazy about kids. Whether it is education, foster care or lead poisoning she is testifying at the legislature, on the committee or in the parade. At Wistar Group she makes sure that we answer the phones correctly, have the right training, and don’t say “your guys’s” in pleasant company.
Douglas Mertes
Property Manager and Principal
Doug is our resident mountain man. He could survive in the wilderness for a year without anything but duct tape. We are grateful that Doug knows everything there is to know about marketing properties. He can explain what we do and how we do it in his sleep.
Richard Smith
Real Estate Agent | Human Resources
Do not be fooled by the fact that he has the most common name ever. This guy is a Renaissance man with many unique talents including unmatched abilities in the culinary arts. We lack all self control when confronted with food prepared by him.
Andrew Helling
Accountant Manager
Andrew is really good at helping investors reach their investment goals and helping tenants find a great place to live, the best part is that he enjoys it! He thinks his coworkers are second to none and every day at work is always very fun with his crazy socks. When Andrew is not wining and dining with his lovely wife, he enjoys using his pilot license to fly to new places. (Fun Fact: 3 of the Wistar members are licensed pilots).
Monica Dibbern
Property Manager
Vicki Melvin
Quality Assurance Manager
No cubicle for Vicki. She is a mover and a shaker. She thrives on meeting new people, which makes her perfect helping our residents find the best home for them. She has a soft spot for old hours and buildings, and she is a connoisseur for vintage shopping and wineries.
Camila Alarcon
Project Manager & Marketing Support
Camila’s Engineering Product Design background fuels her creativity and skills as master marketer. She dreams of seeing snow someday, something not commonly seen where she lives. When Camila is not working, she is staying fit in the gym, traveling, watching movies and having time with her family and friends.
Laura Dominguez
Marketing Assistant
Laura: Daughter, wife and mother of three little girls. She keeps her days busy at work updating and advertising properties in several digital platforms. In her free time she loves to spend time with her family, she likes to cook and read.
Jen Hendry
Leasing Agent
Jen likes to cook and walk her dog.
Ileana Magdaleno
Underwriter | Onboarding Assistant
Ili, does the screening of each prospect very carefully, she loves to have approved prospects! In her free time she likes to read, do exercise and watch movies.
Bill Stowell
Commercial Real Estate Sales Agent
Bill is a truly wonderful guy with wealth of funny jokes and stories. He lives life to the fullest, and we are waiting for the day where he says something negative about someone.
Armando Morales
Assistant Property Manager
Armando is our resident sci-fi guy. Because of Armando we now know that sci-fi slang is called “fanspeak.” He also is an avid reader of comic books. But we know the truth, good tacos hold his heart.
Abraham Perez
Assistant Property Manager
Abraham likes to play sports, his favorite ones are soccer and American football. He works from home and loves it because he can grow professionally and spend time with his family.
Paloma Valadez
Assistant Property Manager
Getting to work and get to know the team is what Paloma likes. In her free time she loves doing DIYs.
Sergio Guerra
Assistant Property Manager
Sergio loves to spend time with his kids, he’s passionate about wine culture, travel and you should ask him to show his pin collection from every city he has visited! He also loves singing. When he is working he likes to be able to help tenants, he likes to keep a good long term relationship with them while he gets their goals.
Carlos Cortes
Assistant Property Manager
Carlos loves spending time with his family and enjoying a good cookout.
Mike Ponce
Customer Solutions Agent
Mike has a long history of helping people on the phone and has a flare for quality customer service. We’re really love having him to work with and you will find he’s quick to resolve any issue you might have. And hopefully this new Star Wars movie will increase the value of his action figures collection 😉
Carlos Rodriguez
Customer Solutions Agent
He strives for each customer to be completely happy and satisfied with the help we offer, he thinks that is the proof of doing the right work. He loves talking to people and listen to their concerns, he is willing to see others perspectives because he thinks is the best way of learning new things. Carlos also loves Music, he is a singer, he plays several instruments like the drums. In his free time he likes to travel “wonderful way to experience new things and learn a lot of new stuff”
Andrea Espinoza
Customer Solutions Agent
Andrea loves to work from home. In her free time, she goes to the gym, reads and watches movies.
Alex
Client Advocate | Accounts Receivable
Alex doesn’t have a cell phone and isn’t into being on the internet. We’ll just leave it at the fact that we have a great employee named Alex, and his job is to analyzes the maintenance receipts for property investors and makes sure we are not over charging anyone. He is super good at it, and we are grateful for him even if he won’t be on our website.
Eduardo Martinez
Finance Assistant
Eduardo works hard to help the tenants in any situation to have them happy and satisfied. In his free time, he likes to travel, watch movies, listen to music, play soccer and spending quality time with his family and friends.
Matt Parmenter
Service Department Manager
Matt likes to play golf and travel in his free time.
Alberto Ortiz
Service Coordinator
Keep Alberto busy at work! being busy is his favorite part because his time goes really fast. In his free time, he likes to play music.
Steve Cymbalista
Maintenance Supervisor
Steves proud to be Polish although he can’t speak the language. He eats, sleeps and breathe anything HVAC, He’s been in the HVAC and building maintenance fields over 30 years. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his grandson and being a hair model.
Mark Newton
Lead Key Technician
Jake Rinehart
Maintenance Technician
Jake not only can fix whatever is broken in your home, but he can also fix whatever is broken on your car. He is partial to the Dodge models like the Charger and the Challenger, but if you have an old GTO or something he would still help you fix it because he is just that nice of a guy.
Wilfred Cobb
Maintenance Technician
When you run into Wilfred you’ll have this feeling that your day is better. Pretty sure his hobby is working hard to make your day better…seriously. His primary job on this planet is spreading happiness. We are grateful that he spreads it on our team and residents every day.
Fernando
Maintenance Technician
Fernando is our go to guy on philosophy. He is a voracious reader who is interested in books that pontificate on the purpose of life. But don’t let the seriousness of his hobby fool you, this guy is mister positive and fun to be around. Call him and ask him how he is and he will say “joyous.” Who wouldn’t want to work with a guy like this? We are grateful for his service to the company.
Phil Wredt
Maintenance Technician
If you have a fire that needs to put out, phil is your man! He is a retired volunteer firefighter and his undertaking classes to learn the art of fire investigation. He is a skilled electrician by trade and likes to work around his house and he participates in shooting competitions.
John Kudlacz
Maintenance Technician
John likes the team work and enjoys every opportunity he can to give his favorite coworkers, Wilfred a hard time; he enjoys working together with the customer and staff to complete his job. In his free time he loves spending time with his family.
Gregory Lyons
Maintenance Technician
Gregory likes helping people. In his free time you will see him working out, hunting or chilling out with vinyl records.
Ed
Maintenance Technician
Ed Bass is either putting up drywall like a boss or hanging out with his grand kids. You should see the epic Lego castles Ed has constructed, and the word on the playground is he gives trophy worthy underdogs that make all the kids in the neighborhood wish he were their grandfather. We’re lucky to have Ed on the team, and just for the record he can do much more than just dry wall. This guy could do just about any home project in his sleep!
Trigve
Maintenance Technician
Trig is going to hunt a deer, make us venison and cook us deer spaghetti. He is our resident hunter. We always eat well when Trig is around. But when he is not hunting, he is working hard making sure your place looks fabulous.
John Gunia
Maintenance Technician
John is the new member of Wistar Group. He has been married for 29 years, has 4 daughters and a son. In his free time he likes to coach his 7 grandchildren in baseball and Football. Another one of his passions is to build and ride motorcycles. If you ever see John, ask him to show you photos!
Joe Manganaro
Maintenance Technician
Don’t play poker with Joe he’ll clean your clock as all the guys will tell you from his Thursday night poker club. Not only will he clean your clock, but he will clean your house too. Joe makes sure all our properties pass the white glove test.
Brad Edgar
Maintenance Technician
Brad, also known as “El conquistador” likes to keep his job with different tasks to have new experiences every day.
Tayler Bouslaugh
Maintenance Technician
Chad Cymbalista
Maintenance Technician
Gary Massa
Maintenance Technician
Shane Downing
Maintenance Technician
Janette
Cleaning Professional
Janette is the only one in the office who can keep plants alive. Her green thumb results in a salsa that she cans in the fall. It is so amazing that we have thought of ways to steal it. Janette’s lovely personality brings a lot to the team.
