Yext Appoints Cynthia Paul to its Board of Directors

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Yext Appoints Cynthia Paul to its Board of Directors

2026-07-08 04:15 Last Updated At：04:31

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 7, 2026--

Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), the enterprise agentic marketing platform, today announced that it has appointed Cynthia Paul to serve as an independent director on its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Ms. Paul is the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Lynrock Lake LP, an investment management firm.

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“We are happy to welcome Cynthia to our Board of Directors and believe her insights will be a significant asset to the team as we continue to deliver long-term shareholder and customer value,” said Michael Walrath, CEO and Chair of the Board for Yext.

Ms. Paul brings more than 24 years of experience as a portfolio manager taking meaningful stakes in publicly-traded enterprise software companies. Since founding Lynrock Lake LP in January 2018, Ms. Paul has invested across the full capital structure of public and private companies, with a focus on the technology industry. Previously, Ms. Paul joined Soros Fund Management LLC in 2000, where she managed a portfolio across corporate credit, convertible and equity securities from 2002 to 2017.

In addition to her significant investment experience, Ms. Paul has served as a member of the board of directors of numerous public and private companies since 2013, including service on multiple committees of public company boards.

“As the clear leader in competitive brand visibility intelligence and agentic marketing, Yext is well positioned to take advantage of a rapidly evolving AI discovery environment. I am excited to work with the Yext team as the company builds on its positive momentum and executes on its strategy to accelerate profitable growth,” said Ms. Paul.

To learn more about Yext's corporate governance, visit investors.yext.com.

About Yext

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. Built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses, Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery – across AI and traditional search. Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces, so partners and developers can build purpose-built experiences on the same infrastructure powering Yext's own products. Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to manage, measure, and optimize visibility at scale. For more information, visit yext.com.

Manhattan high-rise is still unstable after columns buckle, forcing evacuations

NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan high-rise remained unstable Tuesday after officials found that columns buckled and floors sagged while it was being converted to luxury apartments, forcing evacuations in and around the Midtown construction site.

The former headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is in a busy corridor just down the street from New York City icons like the Chrysler Building and Grand Central train station. Drones and city officials were were busy checking out the building.

“This is a minute-by-minute assessment,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters near the scene.

Fire Chief John Esposito said the way the steel-framed building is constructed, “it would not be a total collapse, it would be more of a localized collapse.”

Firefighters had rushed to the area at around 8 a.m. after reports of falling bricks. However, the city’s building commissioner, Ahmed Tigani, said officials hadn’t found evidence that anything came off the building.

Later Tuesday, Leila Bozorg, one of Mamdani’s deputy mayors, told reporters that emergency workers were assessing the building “floor by floor” in order to “finalize a plan for how they’re going to reenforce the structure,” adding “it is encouraging.”

Still, nearby buildings and streets remained evacuated, including a school and the Israeli consulate just across the street.

With more than 1,600 units, the developers say the project is the largest office-to-residential conversion in the city’s history. Gensler, the architectural firm leading the project, says on its website that it is transforming a pair of 1970s-era office buildings by adding more than a dozen stories and redesigning an adjoining tower.

Buildings department records show the project has been fined by the city for several safety violations, including glass and metal falling off the building, along with an incident where a worker fell off a ladder.

Spokespersons for Gensler and MetroLoft, the project developer, didn’t return messages seeking comment. But in a statement to The New York Times, MetroLoft stressed that the building itself is not at risk of collapse and that no debris fell from the building.

Fire officials said two columns appear to have buckled and there were multiple cracks and sagging floors between the 21st and 26th floors. From the street below, a badly bent column could be seen through a large glass window. The fire department also posted images of the column.

First responders and city officials were working closely with the project engineer to develop plans to shore up the impacted flooring, Mamdani said. If it's deemed to be secure, engineers will enter and begin making repairs.

The building commissioner said workers will need to add emergency beams and columns to stabilize the compromised ones.

“Our top priority right now,” the mayor said Tuesday morning, “is the safety of those who live in this area and the safety of those who work in this area.”

This story has been updated to correct that city officials revised the building’s height to 37 stories, not 38.

Izaguirre reported from Lindenhurst, New York.