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Gregg Larson, Clareity Consulting

Profile:

Gregg Larson
, has 23 years' experience in the MLS and real estate information industries, including market research, new product design, market development, strategic planning, MLS regionalization, MLS system and vendor selection, transaction management software, and Internet consulting.  Gregg has worked for organizations such as REDI/Multi-List, the National Association of Realtors (NAR), DATOR, and Moore Data Management Services. 

In 1996, he co-founded Clareity Consulting, an internationally recognized Real Estate Information and Internet consulting firm.  Gregg has consulted for many of the nation’s largest online companies including AOL, MSN, MapQuest, Classified Ventures/Tribune Companies, Google, and Homestore.com as well as many of the nation’s largest Brokerages, Franchisers, Title Companies, Lenders, Information Providers, MLSs.   In 2004, Gregg founded Clareity Security LLC, which quickly became the leading provider of information security technology and solutions to the real estate industry.   He is highly respected throughout the real estate industry for his leadership, vision and creativity, new product design and marketing skills, and successful technology and Internet strategies.   

President & CEO, Clareity Consulting and Communications, Inc.
email:
web: www.callclareity.com

Robert Morris
Profile:

Robert Morris graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and an Associate Degree in Mid-Management Technology from State Technical Institute at Memphis. Robert entered the real estate field in 1985 and has been actively involved in real estate sales and training for over 19 years. He is currently a broker and member of the board of directors with Prudential Rowland Real Estate, Inc., located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he actively lists and sells real estate with his team, TeamRobertMorris.

Robert is a international speaker, trainer and consultant who holds the Internet Professional (e-PRO 500) Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR), Accredited Buyer Representative Manager (ABRM), Certified Real Estate Brokerage Council (CRB), Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), the Graduate Realtor ® Institute (GRI), and the Professional Management Network (PMN) formally the Leadership Training Graduate (LTG) designation for the Women’s Council or Realtors®.s. He has also been certified by the Instructor’s Training Institute (ITI). He has conducted seminars, training workshops and leadership conferences for countless numbers of Realtors®, boards, conventions and associations throughout the continental US, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the British West Indies.

Robert is a Senior Instructor for the Council of Residential Specialist (CRS) national several member active is WCR. REBAC Instructor Facilitator Course also Robert committees. other well Directors of Board serves Realtors®, Association National Institute®, Marketing Founder and President of Robert Morris Seminars, Inc., Robert develops, writes and conducts numerous courses to meet the needs of Realtors® in the rapidly changing world of real estate. Robert has taught personalized courses to thousands of Realtors® across the country and is committed to helping Realtors® become more knowledgeable in all facets of the real estate industry. Robert currently instructs Realtors® in a variety of areas ranging from computer software, brokerage management, professional standards, fair housing, marketing and the implementation of cutting edge technology. In addition to helping established agents, Robert instructs candidates for licensure in the Middle Tennessee region.

His published works include “Teaching Members about Technology: Your Challenge and Responsibility” in NAR Today’s Association Executive, Winter 1997 and “The Palm Pilot: Technology for Realtors® on the move” in WCR’s Tech Talk November/December 1999 issue and others.

Robert Morris Seminars, Inc.
web: www.robertmorris.com
email: info@robertmorris.com


Alex Montalenti

Profile:

Alex Montalenti is the Co-Founder of eRealtySolution and SubmitYourListings.com headquartered in Long Island. eRealty Solution was founded 2004 and specializes in Internet technology and consulting for real estate companies located throughout the five boroughs of New York. eRealty Solution, is a premier provider Industry Advanced Web Site Design, Search Engine Optimization and Marketing, Online Marketing Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Lead Management and Tracking, Custom Application Development, and General Internet Strategy Consulting. 

eRealty Solution’s has developed SubmitYourLisitngs.com to increase listing exposure on several nationwide portals and now offers pay per click campaign management and search engine optimization packages for priority search engine placement. 

Alex has been involved in the creating and developing of businesses for nearly 8 years and brings over 10 years of marketing, sales, project management, as well as application design and development experience to eRealty Solution. As the Director of Sales and Marketing, Montalenti spends his time involved with the development, marketing and sales of custom product development, and more recently, development of automation technology and workflow systems. His role in Sales and Customer Relationship Management at eRealty Solution has put him in a unique position to understand and address the operational needs of the company going forward, as well as the business and technology needs of the clients

eRealtySolution and SubmitYourListings.com
Director of Marketing
Email: alex@erealtysolution.com
web: www.erealtysolution.com
web: www.SubmitYourListings.com


Linda Davis

Profile:

Linda Davis has sold real estate in Eastern CT for over 30 years and has been the #1 agent in Ledyard since the 1990's. She is actively involved in her community and serves as an elected official in the Town of Ledyard.  Linda has been blogging since February 2006. Her blog "The Eastern CT Real Estate Blog", tackles real estate and land use issues, and is well read in her community. She also reads and comments on hundreds of real estate and technology blogs.

The "American Dream Team" at RE/MAX Realty Group
email:
web: www.easterncthomefinder.com
blog: http://blog.ctrelocation.com  For all the real estate information you need in Eastern, CT


Dan Green

Profile:

Dan Green
is the founder of Bring the Blog, a blog-for-you service for busy sales professionals. In his "other" career, Dan is a top-producing loan officer at Mobium Mortgage in Chicago and a perennial nominee for Illinois Loan Officer of the Year.  In 2006, he earned the prestigious "Lending Champion" award from Chicago Metro Real Estate magazine. Dan's personal mortgage blog, The Mortgage Reports, is among the most widely-read mortgage blogs in the country.

Dan Green
Bring the Blog
email:
web: www.bringtheblog.com
blog: http://blog.bringtheblog.com


David Sonkin

Profile:

David Sonkin is the Founder of Open House on the Go. After two years of exhaustive coast-to-coast research on mobile content technologies, he launched his first venture--the mobile entertainment guide, BroadwayPhone.com (featured in The New York Times, June 18, 2007). On the heels of BroadwayPhone's growing success, he turned his attention towards the fertile real estate market . Having spent years watching his own mother (herself a LIBOR member for nearly two decades) navigate the shifting waters of residential real estate trends, he saw a clear opportunity to create a powerful, practical, and effective marketing tool for real estate professionals. As CEO of Lake Success based mobile marketing company mPort3000, David personally presides over Open House on the Go and what he calls, "evolutionary tools for your mobile lifestyle".

email:
web: www.OpenHouseOnTheGo.com


Laureen Zarba

Profile:

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.


Christine Forgione

Profile:

Christine Forgione, Owner/Author of NyHouses4sale.Typepad.com started blogging in April 2006. Prior to starting her own blog, Christine watched other bloggers connect and start a social network. Not only has Christine created a sphere of influence offline she has connected with so many other bloggers around the Country. After receiving calls from buyers or sellers directly because they read her blog, she quickly realized that consumers want to be talked to, not talked at. As a Associate Broker and Office Manager at Carollo Real Estate she prides herself in being honest and telling like it is.

Christine Forgione, Assoc. Broker/Office Manager
917-939-1086
email: NYHouses4sale@Gmail.com
blog: www.NYHouses4sale.typepad.com
Company Website: www.CarolloRealEstate.com


Rudolph D. Bachraty III

Profile:

Rudolph D. Bachraty III is a Licensed Real Estate Broker from New York and Co-Founder of SellsiusRealEstate.com , an online real estate classifieds community to help individuals promote themselves, their businesses and their listings. As co-author of the Sellsius Real Estate Blog , we promote new real estate agents, companies, technologies and bloggers and discuss all real estate-related topics, news, how-to tips, video, advice and tech information in an entertaining way. As Web 2.0 consultants, Sellsius provides advertising, blogging, marketing and branding consultations and tips to help agents and brokers maximize their online presence.

Having spent the last 7 years in the real estate and home improvement industries, Rudolph is passionate about improving the consumer experience both online and offline. This summer, Rudolph and Sellsius Co-Founder Joseph Ferrara announced Blog Tour USA. Their goal was to connect the online and offline worlds and to help spread the word about how blogging can help both consumers and real estate professionals. In one month, they traveled over 10,000 miles through 30+ US cities from New York City to San Francisco in an RV promoting real estate blogging, new technologies, companies and services to the consumers and real estate professionals on the street. The entire trip was documented with video and will highlight how people view real estate and blogging. Their final destination was the first ever Inman San Francisco Bloggers Connect. Stay tuned for the real estate documentary.

Rudolph D. Bachraty III
Co-Founder Sellsius°
Sellsius°
425 Madison Avenue, Suite 902
New York, NY 10017
(646) 714-2720 office
212 644 9802 fax


Joseph G. Ferrara

Profile:

Joseph G. Ferrara, Esq. is a New York licensed real estate broker and attorney, having practiced real estate law in Manhattan for 25 years. He is a real estate marketing consultant and a speaker on real estate blogging, advising how to take advantage of free internet techniques & tools to increase business .  He is co-Founder of Sellsius Real Estate, a marketing company helping real estate professionals better promote themselves.   He co-authors the prestigious Sellsius Real Estate Blog, one of the most successful and well-respected real estate blogs on the internet. 

Joseph is also a contributing writer to the Inman News Blog and was recently a speaker at the Inman News Blogger Connect, held in San Francisco in August 2007 ( 10 Tips from Top Bloggers). 

Joseph and his business partner, Rudolph D. Bachraty III,  made news this summer by traveling cross-country to promote real estate blogging and new technologies to real estate professionals and consumers.  The month long trip took them to 30 cities and covered over 10,000 miles.   The trip will be the subject of an upcoming documentary.
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Joseph G. Ferrara, Esq.
Sellsius
425 Madison Avenue, 9th floor
New York, NY 10017
646-714-2720


Alejandro Foung

Profile:

Alejandro is in charge of launching Trulia’s two new agent products, collaborating with brokers to grow their home buyer acquisition strategy through new, exciting marketing innovations on Trulia.com.  Alejandro hails from Stanford University with degrees in Psychology and Economics and brings a strong e-commerce background to his work at Trulia, having previously built online consumer education tools and business development programs for top consumer brands while at eBay and NexTag.com.

Alejandro Foung
Manager, Strategic Partnerships
Trulia, Inc.
email: alejandro@trulia.com
web: www.trulia.com


Phil Thomas Di Giulio

Profile:

As co-Founder and Chief Creative Office of WellcomeMat 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.

Prior to WellcomeMat was a consultant at HeartBeat Digital where he helped the company produce and deliver custom Websites and high-value Web software for Fortune 500 companies and other industry-leading organizations.   Previously Phil was a multi-media specialist at I-Frontier, now Avenue A | Razorfish, an interactive advertising agency and one of the pioneers in the realm of online marketing.  Phil also served as design engineer for the Medical Broadcasting Company. He is a graduate of Penn State University with a BA in Integrative Arts with an emphasis in multimedia and web design. Phil also leads the New York Real Estate & Technology Meetup with his co-founder Christian Sterner.

Phil Thomas Di Giulio | WellcomeMat.com
co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer
DIRECT  +1 646 623 4840
email:  philthomas@wellcomemat.com
web:  WellcomeMat.com
blog: http://blog.wellcomemat.com


Jeffrey Root

Profile:

Jeffrey Root is the Business Development Manager for Microsoft Virtual Earth Team. He started in the GIS industry more than 11 years ago as an original employee of MapQuest Corporation during its launch in 1996. During his tenure at MapQuest he held several positions including Director of Finance while the company conducted an Initial Public Offering in 1999 and the subsequent sale of the company to AOL in 2001. Since then he held multiple position in both Sales and Business Development with Microsoft and Vicinity Corporation which was acquired by Microsoft in 2002.

Microsoft Corporation| Virtual Earth Business Unit
email:  jeffroot@microsoft.com
web: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth



Bill Dimmler

Profile:

Bill Dimmler is Director of Network Administration for MLS and responsible for all networks, the Rapattoni MIS system; in house support; Tech Field Services and telecommunications security. He has worked on network design and security for Fortune 500 companies, banks and defense contractors. He currently holds certifications from Cisco, Microsoft and Novell.

email: WDimmler@mlsli.com
web: www.mlstechs.com



Ron France

Profile:

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: Ron.France@fnres.com
web: www.Cyberhomes.com



David Montalvo

Profile:

David Montalvo has been the president of Internet marketing firm UnReal Web Marketing, a division of Active Web Group, since 1997. His SEO expertise has allowed him to achieve over 15,000 top-10 positions on the most popular search engines for Fortune 500 companies throughout his career.

In the course of his work at UnReal Web Marketing, David has successfully launched over 750 full-featured websites and has been the sole provider of marketing for over half of those sites. He is an industry leader in website design, search engine optimization, pay-per-click management, and website analytics.

Current clients include jetBlue, Good Year, MLS, Mitutoyo, Cardinal Health, The Finals, One Way Furniture, Morrell Instruments, and Weber of North America, as well as Professional Equipment, Construction Book Express, and RandMH, all divisions of Grainger, Inc.

David first broke into the industry as graphic artist and then went on to become a web designer/webmaster. Soon after that he began studying search engine algorithms and realized his talent for obtaining high search engine rankings for websites.

email: dave@unrealstudio.com
web: www.unrealstudio.com



Carmen Stangota

Profile:

Carmen Stangota is a Regional Sales Manager for Palm, Inc. responsible for supporting the Verizon Wireless account in the Northeast Area. Carmen has over 10 years of experience in the wireless communications industry. Previously, he had worked for Verizon Wireless, holding various positions in the sales and marketing organization. He has a B.S. in Marketing and Management from Monmouth University.

Carmen F. Stangota
Regional Sales Manager, Palm, Inc.
email: carmen.stangota@palm.com
web : www.palm.com

Hector Gavilla

Profile:

Hector Gavilla is the founder of DiamondHomeVideos.com, an online video company that produces videos for Real Estate listings. He is also a top producing Real Estate Agent 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. He founded Diamond Home Videos because of a vision that this new marketing tool will replace the 360 virtual tours currently being offered today. 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, and Coldwell Banker.

email: gavilla@diamondhomevideos.com
web: www.DiamondHomeVideos.com

John Miccio

Profile:

John Miccio, Business Sales Manager for The N.Y. Metro Region, has been with Verizon Wireless for 5 years. He brings with him over 8 years in the wireless service industry. Prior to joining the wireless communication workforce as a civilian, John spent 4 Years in the United States Marine Corps. John spent time as a Field Radio Operator, Microwave Radio Operator, and Satellite Communications specialist, where his interest in wireless communication was fueled even further. He left the service of the U.S. Military with an Honorable Discharge from the 6th Communication Battalion in Brooklyn, N.Y. John's highly dedicated team of Account Executives specialize in supporting Small/Medium Business with their Wireless Technology needs. Solution selling is the goal of every Account Executive on John's team. John, and his team are well versed in the many Real Estate solutions Verizon Wireless can offer such as VZ Navigator, Broadband Access Connect, and VZ E mail.

email: john.miccio@verizonwireless.com
web: www.VerizonWireless.com

Hal Kench

Profile:

Holder of a BS in Technology from SUNY Oswego, and an MS in Instructional Technology from NYIT, Hal has been at the forefront of Long Island online real estate videography since the beginning. Having been featured in Newsday and the Southampton Press, Hal has helped get the word out that online video tours are not only the best way to showcase all of a homes features, but also serve as a great way to make your listings stand out above the standard photographic slide show.

email: Hal@suffolkhometours.com
web: www.welcomehomevideotours.com

Mark Wacker

Profile:

Mark Wacker is Director of Corporate Relations for PropertyShark.com.  He is currently responsible all corporate group sales, customer service, and real estate training for one of the most in-depth property information sites on the web today.

Previously, Mark Wacker worked for fourteen years in New York and Boston as a real estate Broker.  Before his career in real estate, Mark worked as a Preservation Specialist for the National Park Service where he assisted in the restoration historic structures throughout the North Atlantic region.

With over 25 million properties in 20 major markets, PropertyShark.com enables intelligent real estate investment, providing data and tools on all aspects of real property, including comparable sales, property details, ownership, maps, listings, foreclosures, mailing lists, and more, directly from the web

email: mark@propertyshark.com
web: www.propertyshark.com

 

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