Ann Bailey has led thousands of executives in the
real estate industry to take dramatic steps to re-engineer
their businesses and integrate technology that results in
efficient and profitable changes. Ann’s dynamic career
includes more than fifteen years of consulting for leading
brokerage firms, information systems companies, real estate
associations and MLS’s covering technology, strategic
planning, mergers and acquisitions, business development
opportunities, organizational assessments and seminars. Ranging
from working one-on-one with top CEO’s to leading strategy
sessions with entire companies, Ann has proven experience
in delivering insightful answers to critical issues facing
businesses today. Ann has been an executive with a large
Internet company and holds a B.S. degree, an MBA and is a
co-founder and principal in Pranix.
Co-Founder and Principal
email:
web: www.pranix.com
Sara Bonert is the Partner Relations Manager for
Zillow. Sara has over 10 years of experience of helping
real estate professionals market themselves online. Her
career began in 1997 at Citysearch.com where she worked
to develop one of the first online real estate channels. From
there she worked as the National Sales Manager of eBusiness
for Network Communications Inc, publishers of The Real
Estate Book, teaching agents to integrate print and online
advertising. Today she works with Real Estate professionals
around the country to leverage Web 2.0 marketing opportunities
and helping them understand the ways they can market themselves
on Zillow. Sara is also a licensed Realtor in Illinois.
Partner Relations Manager
email:
web: www.zillow.com
Pierre Calzadilla joined Trulia.com in January
2007 as Trulia’s Manager, Strategic Partnerships.
Pierre engages strategic accounts and real estate groups
around the country on key industry trends and has written
articles featured in Real Estate Weekly, RISMedia and your
local real estate blog.
Prior to Trulia, Pierre worked as a real estate agent for
Fillmore Real Estate and served as the company’s
Director of e-business. In that role, he led the
successful growth of Fillmore’s on-line business
and CRM platform. He also created a wealth of training
classes for SEO/SEM, marketing Real Estate On-Line and
more. By the end of his time there, Fillmore saw a 300%
increase in web visitors, inquiries, and lead conversion.
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 Trulia
email:
web: www.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:
web: 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
Group
email:
web: www.easterncthomefinder.com
blog: http://blog.ctrelocation.com For
all the real estate information you need in Eastern, CT
Abraham Murray is a product manager on Google’s
geo team. He works on Google Base Real Estate Search, focusing
on optimizing the user experience for real estate listings
displayed on Google. He is responsible for the development
and improvement of the systems, algorithms, and user interfaces
related to real estate listing search. He also manages
content acquisition and content partnerships for this product.
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 Search
email:
web: www.google.com
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
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:
blog: 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.
Web: www.DiamondHomeVideos.com
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Sales Manager - New York
Email: steven.bababekov@obeo.com
Web: 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.
CEO
Web: www.kineticblogs.com
Blog: http://kineticknowledge.com
Blog: 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.
Social Media Guru at Trulia
Email: rudy@trulia.com
Websites & Pages:
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.
Business Development Manager – Virtual Earth Mapping
Email: Clinton.Libbey@microsoft.com
Web: www.Microsoft.com/VirtualEarth
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REALTOR.COM
Email: Leza.VanBeuren@realtor.com
Web: 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.
In his current position as President of RealPro Training and Consulting,
Joe is fulfilling a career goal of sharing his wealth of knowledge
and experience with those Real Estate Professionals who are dedicated
to their own personal success.
Because of his extensive Real Estate Education and Training by
two national companies, a decade of practical and award winning
experience, and his unique capabilities to integrate advanced computer
technology within the successful operation of a Real Estate Office,
today Joe is a highly sought after consultant. Joseph Sabella has
provided over 2,500 hours of training to over 6,000 participants.
President, RealPro Training and Consulting
Email: jsabella@realprotraining.com
Web: www.realprotraining.com