Sylvia Mantella
Vice President of Marketing, Sponsorship and Philanthropy

Sylvia Mantella is the Vice President of Marketing, Sponsorship and Philanthropy at Mantella Corporation since 2008. Mantella Corporation is one of the largest privately held family owned real estate and land development companies in Canada. They have distinguished themselves as market leaders who maintain an entrepreneurial culture without compromising their social responsibility.

Through attentive, strategic, selective marketing and co-brand campaigns and collaborations, Sylvia has been an integral asset to the growth of Mantella Corporation for well over a decade.

Sylvia currently serves on the Board of Directors for CANFAR since 2017. In 2019-2020 Sylvia was recognized with the Philanthropist of the Year Award and prior on 2016 Sylvia received the President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Canadian HIV and AIDS research.

Franco Bilotta, P.ENG.
General Manager, Acquisitions & Operations

Although his formal education is in mechanical engineering, Franco’s experience has granted him extensive knowledge of real estate management including building systems, maintenance, construction and real estate valuation. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, at the University of Toronto, he worked for a Code consulting company and later as a facility engineer. It was during this time that he became captivated with real estate and real estate management. After obtaining his Bachelor of Applied Science, Franco worked for internationally known companies with various asset classes and took on responsibilities that extended nationally. Throughout his career he has been involved with asset management, property management, maintenance, and construction and led a successful track record with SNC-Lavalin, GWL Realty Advisors, and Oxford Properties Group. He has had an active role in acquisitions, dispositions, and management of various asset classes that include commercial, industrial, retail and multi-residential properties.

Conrad Mantella
Asset Manager

Conrad Mantella is the Asset Manager for Mantella Corporation and worked in the field as a junior since 2012 and took a full time project management position in early 2016. When it came time for post-secondary education in 2013, Conrad studied Psychology at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo. Seeing the bustling development in Waterloo prompted him moving back to Toronto to pursue a career in External Operations . Conrad manages a team in Field Operations driven projects for Mantella Corporation. Conrad sits in the committee for City Mogals, a local Toronto based fundraising initiative creating opportunities to better the lives of struggling youths through existing Arts programs such as U for Change.

Bryn Poling
Field Project Manager

Bryn Poling is the Field Project Manager at Mantella Corporation since 2020.

He has had a passion for building and renovating from a young age, having spent time with his father, watching him build furniture in the workshop of the family home.

Bryn graduated from George Brown College with a diploma in the Building Renovation Technician Program and came to Mantella Corporation with over two decades of construction and building renovation experience.  Prior to joining Mantella Corporation he was a successful business owner, involved in custom build projects and buying and renovating properties.  Bryn has experience in almost every facet of construction and is a natural team leader who brings knowledge and problem-solving skills to the forefront

John Ebach
Director of Leasing

John Ebach brings almost 20 years of experience in varied real estate roles to his role as Director of Leasing at Mantella Corporation.  During his career, he has had the opportunity to work not only in leasing, but in information technology and property management, as well, providing him with a well-rounded knowledge of the real estate industry.

Prior to joining Mantella Corporation, John served as the Director of Leasing for Epic Investment Services where he was responsible for leasing of office and industrial properties throughout the Greater Toronto Area and Southwestern Ontario, working with several institutional and high net worth clients.  John began his career at Dream Office and Dream Industrial REIT where he held roles in leasing, property management and information technology over a span of more than 10 years.

John attended Ryerson University where he studied a Bachelor of Commerce and holds a Computer System Technician diploma from George Brown College.

Duncan Hill
General Partner, MVP

Duncan is a general partner at Mantella Venture Partners. Duncan previously served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ventures West, executive director at Chango (acq Rubicon Project ’15), executive director at SurfEasy (acq Opera ’15), executive director at RapidMind (acq Intel ’09), executive Investor at Pushlife (acq Google ’11), executive director at Brave Commerce (acq. Rogers Media ’12), and the advisory board of Opalis (acq Microsoft ’09). Duncan currently serves on the board of CrowdCare and is an investor and advisor at Ritual, Joist, Flixel, Unata, ChatKit and PebblePost. Prior to his move into hands-on venture investing, Duncan was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Think Dynamics, a developer of data center automation software, which was acquired by IBM in May 2003. Think Dynamics became an integral part of IBM’s Tivoli portfolio and Blue Cloud initiative. Duncan served as an IBM executive until June 2005 guiding market and technology strategy for Tivoli’s on demand automation software portfolio. Prior to founding Think Dynamics, Duncan established a data centre consulting practice that delivered enterprise systems architecture and management services to customers that included Virgin, Norwich Union, one2one, Millipore, ADP and Teleglobe in the UK, USA and Canada.