Co-Founder and Principalwww.pranix.com
Steve Harney is a residential real estate expert who specializes
in negotiation and sales training. He has been in the industry
for over 20 years, first as an agent and then developing
his own 500 agent real estate firm. Most recently, Steve launched
a training firm aimed at helping producers achieve their
true potential. He authors a monthly informational slide presentation
for top professionals titled, "Keeping Current Matters”,
and travels the country as a sought-after public speaker and
trainer. Please contact Steve at 631-834-7000 or visit www.steveharney.com .steve@steveharney.com www.steveharney.com
Partner Relations Managerwww.zillow.com
Pierre is an Online Media mover with extensive, first-hand
experience in generating and managing online consumer leads. He
has created and developed classes that help real estate professionals
relate to and engage the online consumer. In-depth
knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) and search
engine marketing (SEM). Helped cut over 25% of previous employers
print marketing while tripling their online business, continue
to assist clients in doing the same.
Manager, Strategic Partnerships at Truliawww.trulia.com
Ron France has over 20 years experience in the information technology
and real estate industries including sales, market research, real
estate technology, training, management, strategic planning, and
internet consulting.
Ron has worked for organizations
such as REALTOR.com, RealtyUSA and Fidelity National Real Estate
Solutions. During his time with Realtor.com Ron was the Eastern
Regional Director as well as consultant to MLS’s and large
real estate firms in the north east.
Ron is also a licensed Real Estate Broker in NYS and an experienced
public speaker having done many professional speaking engagements
through out the United States.
email: www.Cyberhomes.com
Linda Davis has sold real estate in Eastern CT for over
30 years and has been the #1 agent in the Town of Ledyard
since the late 1980’s. She has been a Broker with RE/MAX since 1985 and has received that company’s Life Time Achievement Award.
Linda is active in her local Board of Realtors® and has previously been a recipient of the Realtor® of
the Year Award.She now chairs the Board’s Annual Golf Tournament for Habitat for Humanity.
Proving that politics and real estate can mix, Linda is
an elected official in her town and serves as a member
of the Ledyard Town Council. She was previously Chairman
of the Ledyard Board of Education.
Linda has been blogging since February 2006. Her blog "The
Eastern CT Real Estate Blog ", tackles real estate, land
use issues and even local politics, mostly with a sense of
humor. In addition to her local blog, Linda offers practical
real estate advice to her peers at her Real
Estate Solutions Blog . She also participates in several
social networking sites and reads and comments daily on
real estate, technology and marketing blogs.
She also contributes to Home
Gain’s Blog and the Realty
Agent’s
Blog , where she writes real estate product reviews.
Linda holds the following designations: ABR, CRS, GRI,
EPRO, SRES,
The "American Dream Team" at RE/MAX Realty
Groupwww.easterncthomefinder.com http://blog.ctrelocation.com For
all the real estate information you need in Eastern, CT
Prior to joining Google, Abraham was co-founder and CTO
of Web 2.0 start-up doodleboard inc., where he directed
offshore development and worked on marketing, sales, and
fundraising. Earlier, he was a product manager at BAE Systems,
where he worked on unmanned aerial vehicles for the Department
of Defense.
Abraham earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering
from the University of Rhode Island, where he graduated
summa cum laude. He has a master’s degree in electrical
engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where
he also graduated summa cum laude, and holds an MBA from
Harvard Business School.
Google Product Manager, Real Estate Searchwww.google.com
Phil brings
over 10 years of multimedia and branding expertise to the company. With a passion for video and the role it continues
to play in mass communications, Phil is WellcomeMat’s resident
evangelist, continually connecting real estate professionals with
videographer communities. Feeding his video passion, Phil also serves
as the creative and online media director of the New York Television
Festival where he is responsible for defining and directing creative
brand identity and online media initiatives.
Phil Thomas Di Giulio | WellcomeMat.comphilthomas@wellcomemat.com
WellcomeMat.com http://blog.wellcomemat.com
Laureen Zarba has been a New York State real estate continuing
education approved technology instructor with LIBOR and MLS since April
2001, and has over 20 years of experience in technical training and curriculum
development. She has worked previously for the NYPD Police Academy, designing
training programs and teaching, as well as supporting local precinct
personnel. She has taught technology at Suffolk Community College for
9 years. She has a Master's Degree in Business from Hofstra University.
Joseph G. Ferrara is an attorney and real estate broker in New York City. Joseph is Publisher of the Sellsius Real Estate Blog, one of the most popular and respected real estate and marketing focused blogs in the country. In 2007, Sellsius was named one of the Top 3 Real Estate Industry Blogs in the Swanpoel Trends Report and Joseph was chosen one of the Top 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers for Marketing and How-to by Inman News. The Annual Sellsius Top Women Real Estate Agent Bloggers Award honors the country’s top women bloggers to bring attention to them and the growing medium.
Joseph speaks at industry conferences across the country on the subject of blogging, social media and internet marketing. He teaches and coaches blogging-for-business to real estate agents for HomeGain.com and MLS members. HGTV’s Frontdoor selected Joseph to sit on its newly created Bloggers Council.
email:
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/
Hector Gavilla is the President and Founder of DiamondHomeVideos.com,
a Real Estate Video Tour company that produces online videos for
Real Estate listings. The video tours appear as virtual tour links
on Stratus, mlsli.com, Realtor.com, nytimes.com, newsday.com, and
other popular Real Estate websites. He founded Diamond Home Videos
because of a vision that professionally produced "mini movies" of
homes with narration and background music will replace the
360 spinning tours of the past. In 2008, Diamond Home Videos expanded
its services to include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia with plans to offer services in more States.
Hector has been a frequent guest speaker at various trade shows
including Real Estate Connect 2008, MLS Tech Fair 2007, and the
LI Videographers Association. In 2007, LI Business News had a featured
article about Hector and his vision for the future of Real Estate
marketing. A copy of the article can be read at www.diamondhomevideos.com .
He is very proud to have personally helped so many Realtors achieve
the status of super broker through the use of this innovative marketing
tool.
Hector Gavilla is also a top producing Real Estate Associate Broker
with Prudential Douglas Elliman. Prior to working in Real Estate,
Hector owned an Internet web hosting company and worked as a computer
consultant for more than 15 years providing services to several
Fortune 500 companies. His technical background combined with his
success in Real Estate sales has helped many Realtors successfully
switch over to the online video format. His clients include Realtors
like ReMax, Prudential Douglas Elliman, Century 21, and Coldwell
Banker.gavilla@diamondhomevideos.com www.DiamondHomeVideos.com
Steven Bababekov has successfully marketed Real Estate for over
14 years in New York and Florida. As a Regional Sales Manager for
Obeo, the leading provider of visual marketing for the Real Estate,
Steven has had the privilege to coach and train many of the top
real estate brokers and agents throughout New York
steven.bababekov@obeo.com
www.Obeo.com
Chris Frerecks has been working on the front edge of emerging technology
markets for 17 years, including early web- based business development
(Wired, Jim Cramer's TheStreet.com & CBS MarketWatch.) For the
last 7 years, he’s been focused on business class blogging solutions,
education & services. In late 2002 he co- founded a very early
business blogging enterprise that integrated blogging capabilities
into local yellow page listings. Chris has a degree in Political
Science/ Economics from the University of Maryland. He was born
in Brooklyn, NY, grew up in Westfield, NJ and he currently lives
in Manasquan & Westfield, NJ. Aside from a focus on operating Real
Estate Blogsites/ Kinetic Knowledge, he spends most of his time
with family, good friends, dog... and he still finds some time
to do some surfing.
www.kineticblogs.com http://kineticknowledge.com http://realestateblogsites.com
Rudy is the resident Social Media
Guru at Trulia.com. He manages the Trulia blog and Trulia’s
Social Media presence both online and offline. He contributes to
new initiatives that build brand awareness while improving the
consumer and agent experience. As a speaker at real estate conferences
and classrooms around the nation, he enjoys educating agents on
how to best utilize the newest and best web 2.0 tools and technologies. rudy@trulia.com www.truliablog.com www.trulia.com/voices/profile/Rea www.linkedin.com/in/rudybachraty twitter.com/trulia profile.to/rudy/ www.retaggr.com/Card/trulia
Clinton Libbey is a Business Development Manager at the
Microsoft Corporation and specializes in the Virtual Earth mapping
platform. Before joining Microsoft, Mr. Libbey was responsible
for multi-hazard mapping products at First American Flood Data
Services and developed a global data distribution infrastructure
for satellite ground stations at Core Software Technology. He
is a native New Yorker from the South Shore of Long Island where,
early in his career, he was a licensed real estate salesman. He
is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and currently
lives in Arlington, Virginia with his ten year old son.Clinton.Libbey@microsoft.com www.Microsoft.com/VirtualEarth
Leza.VanBeuren@realtor.com www.realtor.com
Joe Sabella began his Real Estate career with an independent Real
Estate company on Long Island in 1985. In 1987 he joined an office,
which was part of a large national company, and in 1988 he won
the awards for top listing agent and Top Producer within his organization.
Between 1989 and 1995 Joe managed two different offices where both
he and his associates grew and prospered. In 1992 he won the award
for most improved office within his company.jsabella@realprotraining.com www.realprotraining.com
Kelly Roark is vice president, interactive sales
and development for Scripps Networks Interactive and its FrontDoor.com
real estate Web site powered by lifestyle media leader HGTV, which
boasts an audience of nearly 20 million home enthusiasts. Most
recently Roark served as vice president of industry development
for real estate search engine Trulia.com, where she was responsible
for marketing and business development outreach to the real estate
community. Prior to that, she was vice president of sales and marketing
for Inman News. In her current role, she is continuing to develop
industry partnerships and marketing opportunities for agents and
brokers through FrontDoor.com, which now promotes more than 3.4
million property listings to active home searchers less than a
year after Beta launch. KRoark@scrippsnetworks.com www.FrontDoor.com
Dana Nowick is the MLS Product Marketing Specialist
and has been with MLS for 2 years. Dana’s role is to help
Realtors grow their business with MLS Products and Services.
She promotes these technology-based services to keep Realtors
and their business ahead of the real estate technology curve.
Dana was previously employed at Long Island Commercial Bank where
she was involved in marketing the bank’s services to consumers
on Long Island. She recently graduated from Hofstra University
and has attained her MBA in Marketing. Dana did her undergraduate
work at the University of Miami where she attained a B.A. in International
Finance and Marketing.dnowick@mlsli.com www.mlstechs.com
For relaxation, Rob builds computers as a hobby. He is also a
big fan of George R.R. Martin, tries not to insult the ancient sport of golf, and gets ignored as much as possible by his wife and two boys.
Vice President, Marketingrhahn@onboardinformatics.com www.onboardinformatics.com
Joe McChristian is the Co-Founder and President of RealEstate-Websites.com, an Internet services company providing website design, development and hosting services since 1999 to the real estate industry nationwide. The company specializes in instantly available semi-custom websites for real estate brokers, agents and single properties. Through their RETSLinkTM Pro service the company provides real time IDX information and the benefits of RETS technology to both new and existing websites of MLS members.
Previously, Joe was an Account Executive and the Production
Director with two advertising and website development companies
in Florida. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with majors
in marketing and finance from Florida Atlantic University's College
of Business.
Co-Founder and President, info@realestate-websites.com www.RealEstate-Websites.com
Ariana Abedi is a rising star in real estate marketing. Ariana
began her career in Los Angeles working for one of the city's
premiere real estate agencies, and succeeded quickly in Southern
California's competitive real estate market. As the manager
of the marketing efforts of Los Angeles' #1 agent for three
years, she specialized in key marketing activities and was instrumental
in promoting her company to the top. She has deep hands-on experience
in direct marketing and advertising in both online and offline
media. In 2008 she brought her diverse skill set to ListhHub
where she serves as a Senior Account Manager for Broker Sales. ariana@listhub.com www.ListHub.com
Scott Feldman is the Senior Vice President
of Sales and Adoption for Listingbook™. The Field Service team trains, teaches and assists real estate companies and individual agents to maximize their benefits by integrating Listingbook™ into their businesses.
Prior to joining Listingbook™ Feldman designed, implemented and managed strategic sales campaigns for a variety of clients as a consultant with SF Tech.
sfeldman@listingbook.com www.Listingbook.com
Dan Green is Chief Blogging Officer at Bring the Blog, a blog-for-you service for real estate agents. Each business day, he writes fresh blog content and uploads it to Bring the Blog's member Web sites. Dan's blogging experience dates to January 2005 and his skills are highly regarded by both the press and his peers.
dan@bringtheblog.com www.bringtheblog.comm
Martin Scrocchi has been the President and CEO of Instanet Solutions
since 1990. Martin graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a BSC degree
in Media Applications of Digital Logic. He went on to design
and develop software which was used to digitally color black
and white movies and television shows. From there, Instanet
Solutions was founded by Martin in 1990 with the release of
Instant Forms, a desktop contract and form management system.
In 1998 Instanet Solutions released the first completely internet
based contract and forms service called Instanet Forms. Under
Martin's direction, Instanet Solutions has attained over 360,000
realtors as licensed users of their various available services. mscrocchi@instanetsolutions.com www.instanetsolutions.com
