Meet the Team

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Olivia Blitchington

Olivia Blitchington is a Florida girl through and through, having grown up in the small town of Middleburg, FL. While working in cosmetics, she quickly realized her passion for client relations and marketing. Fired up by her desire to learn, she set off to pursue her bachelor's degree in advertising at the University of Florida, with a focus in business management. Go Gators! While attending school, Olivia also hit the ground running with an advertising internship for ApartmentsFor. She fell...

Market Director

Sarah Watts

Sarah was only 11 years old when she started a beauty and lifestyle YouTube channel. The channel matured alongside Sarah, as she consistently posted videos throughout middle school, high school, and a little bit of college ranging from makeup tutorials to room tours to advice on applying to college. Sarah's YouTube career led her to discover her passion for content creation and branding, which led Sarah to the University of Florida to pursue a degree in Marketing. When Sarah was living on The...

Digital Brand Manager

Caroline Webb

Say hello to Caroline Webb, the Digital Branding Manager for iLS network. Caroline is a 2022 graduate from University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications. She started her journey with iLS network as a junior on the Spring 2021 internship. She began with a team of four interns from UF and FSU tasked to help improve the various websites with relevant student content. The team completed a FSU Parent Guide for RentTally.com and worked on gathering student survey data. After...

Managing Director

Sydney Jamieson

Sydney was barely 18 when she toured at her first potential college apartment (College Manor, a true University of Florida classic!) and said to her roommate, "I should be the lady who gives the tours!" A University of Florida Gator graduate with a BS in Business Administration (Marketing), she took her first apartment industry job doing Street Team marketing for a student housing community in Gainesville, FL with nearly 1200 residents! She worked nearly every leasing job in that community's...

Lead Software Engineer

Brian Hall

Brian Hall works as a Product Software Engineer at iLS Network, developing and maintaining the regional apartment listing sites. He originally joined the iLS Network team in a limited technical support capacity. Over time, though, it became obvious that his technical expertise was required to provide further enhancements and features to the iLS Network apartment listing websites. He is now a key player in bringing new ideas and features for iLS Network's regional websites to life. Brian is...

Founder & CEO

Pete Zimek

Pete Zimek is the founder and president of iLS network, a collective of online apartment guides serving renters in seven cities across Florida and now Georgia. Generating over 60,000 visits each month, the websites use cutting edge technology to match renters with the apartment community that best fits their lifestyle and budget. Pete's personal mission is to connect people with ideas and other people in ways that create opportunity, and all of his business and philanthropic endeavors have...

Associate Market Director

Nick Thomas

Nick has been a proud Georgian all his life. He was born and raised in Dacula before making a short move to Ball Ground his senior year. Now he resides in Athens where he is a sophomore at the University of Georgia. He's studying for a degree in International Business and MIS, after which he aspires to become a serial entrepreneur. He lives off-campus and has seen the best apartments Athens has to offer. In his search for an off-campus apartment, Nick had a few must-haves on his list. As an...

Past Contributors

Digital Marketing Intern

Caleb Padgett

Caleb Padgett is a senior at the Terry College of Business, studying marketing with a digital emphasis. Caleb is a natural-born Georgian who started his upper education at Georgia College & State University. After two years, he decided he wanted a change and where better than the University of Georgia. He was drawn to UGA, not only because of the dominant football team, and unrivaled school spirit, but UGA also has one of the best business schools in the country. Caleb saw that earning a...

Digital Marketing Intern

Tori Robison

Tori Robison is currently a junior at the University of Georgia where she is studying marketing in the Terry College of Business. Tori's hometown is Chattanooga, Tennessee, but she decided to move to Georgia because of their elite business school. She always knew she wanted to pursue a career in business, but her passion for marketing developed her senior year of high school, where she was VP of Marketing for her club, Virtual Enterprise. She loved the creativity of marketing and how it...

Digital Marketing Intern

Miya Grant

Miya Grant is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Georgia, majoring in advertising with a minor in fashion merchandising. Growing up, Miya always had an expressed interest in all things creative–whether it was fine art or writing—in addition to a restless urge to acquire knowledge through education and personal experiences. This is what essentially led Miya towards the communications path, where she could nurture both aspects of her personality by utilizing both her...

Blog Writer

Jessica Fuller

Jessica has been a proud Floridian all her life. She was born and raised in Orlando before making a short move to Winter Garden during her senior year. Now she resides in Tallahassee where she is a sophomore at Florida State University. She's studying for a degree in English for Editing, Writing and Media, after which she aspires to become a professional copy editor for a publishing company. She lives on-campus for now, but she is eagerly making plans to move into an off-campus apartment as...

Blog Writer

Danielle Barnych

Danielle has always been a girl on the move. She has lived in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Florida twice, and now resides in Tallahassee. Her current place of residence is a convenient off-campus apartment near the beautiful Florida State University where she studies Creative Writing and Psychology. She has been a Staff Writer for Her Campus at FSU for two years now and hopes to one day publish books of her own.During her first year at FSU, she lived in an on-campus dorm before transitioning to...

Blog Writer

Jala Harris

Jala is a true Floridian, she has lived in over ten cities throughout Florida. Her father was employed with the Florida State Park Service during her childhood, so she experienced all the wonders of natural Florida. She considers central Florida her hometown where she attended middle and high school but has now adopted Gainesville as home. Jala originally moved to Gainesville for college, met her husband there, and after they were married, they returned to Gainesville to start a family. Jala...

Blog Writer

Anna Pawlusiak

Anna moved to Florida when she was seven years old. It was a big change moving from Michigan, but she embraced it and grew to love the sunshine state. She was homeschooled through middle school and high school, so when it was time to go to college, it was a large change for her. Yet she embraced that too and was excited to start her journey at the University of South Florida. Anna is currently studying Mass Communications with minors in Professional and Technical Communications and Classics....

Blog Writer

Morgan Wipert

Morgan is truly a Florida girl, born and raised, living throughout the state. Morgan used to be a Tampa girl, aspiring to attend the local university, and constantly attending Tampa Bay Lightning hockey games with her mother. Once she began attending school at the University of Central Florida, the Orlando area truly became her home away from home. After she completes her BA in Creative Writing, she plans to continue pursuing her writing dreams. She was initially a Theatre major, but the art...

Social Media Representative

Ericka Joiner

Ericka Joiner, originally from Gainesville, Georgia, began her academic journey at Georgia College & State before transferring to the University of Georgia in Athens. At UGA, she is pursuing a bachelor's in Psychology with a minor in Consumer Economics. Ericka's decision to join the UGA community was driven by the abundant opportunities the university offers and her love for SEC football games. Ericka's interest in psychology began with her love for consumer behavior, and she recently added...