Real Estate Almanac

Tech Executives

The top 20 technology executives list, a subset of the Swanepoel Power 200 ranking, acknowledges executives with technology companies who primarily serve residential real estate brokerage companies.
Executives Legend
The color legend to the right illustrates the various backgrounds for the top executives in the residential real estate industry.

21

Co-Founder and President, 
RealScout
Flachner leads RealScout, which provides agents and their clients with agent-branded home search portals. RealScout also serves brokerages in certain markets through its Buyer Graph offering, which distills aggregated buyer data to determine market insights and ideal pricing. In Q4 2023, the company released a platform update called RealScout+ and announced a partnership with Anywhere Real Estate to make its platform available to the likes of Century 21, Coldwell Banker, and Sotheby’s International Realty.

22

CEO, 
CINC (a Fidelity National Financial company)
Erize joined CINC (also known as Commissions Inc.) as COO in 2016, when Fidelity National Financial acquired the company, and later transitioned to CEO. Today he oversees the strategic direction of the lead generation and conversion platform for North American agents, teams, and brokers. In 2023, CINC announced an integration with Inside Sales Agent service Conversion Monster.

23

Chen serves as CEO of Lofty (formerly Chime Technologies), which provides IDX, CRM, lead generation, marketing tools, and transaction management in one AI-powered platform. Chen is a self-described “serial entrepreneur” with an avid interest in startup software as a service (SaaS) companies. He has worked with property management SaaS (Rentancy), REITs (Fundrise), and modular home manufacturing (Irontown Homes) firms.

24

VP of Enterprise Sales, Industry, 
ShowingTime+ (a Zillow Group company)
A founding management team member of the showing and market stats software firm ShowingTime, he joined Zillow Group as VP of enterprise sales when the portal acquired the company in 2021. He leads industry sales for the evolving product at Zillow Group, known as ShowingTime+, which includes showing software, offer management, listing media services and more.

25

Founder and CEO, 
Green Seed Technologies
Leck runs Green Seed Technologies, a real estate technology holding company that owns a variety of industry tools including popular real estate dialer RedX and communications platform Wavv. The company has grown to serve agents throughout North America. Leck also works with companies in communications, social media content logistics, and tech incubation.

26

CEO, 
Attom Data Solutions
Barber has run Attom Data Solutions as CEO since 2015. The company, which private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners acquired in 2019, provides national property data including tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, natural hazard and more on over 155 million residential and commercial properties in the U.S. In 2021, the company acquired national property database GeoData Plus.

27

President and CEO, 
Elm Street Technology
McDuffee leads Elm Street Technology, provider of several popular real estate technology products including an end-to-end technology platform, which includes CRM, lead generation, IDX websites and more. A veteran tech industry leader, he joined Elm Street in 2022 from DealerSocket, a global software-as-a-service provider for auto dealers.

28

Founder and CEO, 
Real Estate Webmasters
Carey runs Real Estate Webmasters, which provides websites, lead generation and CRMs to over 35,000 North American real estate professionals. In 2023, the Vancouver-based company he founded in 2004 launched a tool to provide an extra layer of security for listings, a new CRM source-tracking feature, and a human-assisted AI tool.

29

Founder and CEO, 
HomeLight
Uher leads HomeLight, the alternative finance company he founded in 2012. The firm partners with over 28,000 agents across the U.S. to help facilitate transactions with a variety of financing tools, including cash offers, mortgage services and more. Prior to founding HomeLight, the Stanford Graduate School of Business graduate, co-founded a distribution and monetization platform for Flash games.

30

Founder and CEO, 
Livian (a KW company)
Hergenrother partnered with Keller Williams Realty to launch Livian, a platform to help real estate agents and teams scale with systems and services, in 2021. The company now has 64 locations in 33 states. In 2023, the firm added two new executives, including a new president and senior vice president of revenue. Before founding Livian, Hergenrother founded and grew a large Keller Williams Realty team.

31

Founder and CEO, 
Luxury Presence
Kramer founded Luxury Presence in 2014 to provide marketing solutions to a growing customer base of more than 8,000 agents and brokers. In 2023, the company raised $19.2 million to add new features to its platform including an AI-powered mobile app. Kramer is a former professional basketball player.

32

Co-Founder and CEO, 
Follow Up Boss (a Zillow Group company)
Corkill runs the real estate CRM and lead management system, Follow Up Boss, which facilitates automatic lead distribution and follow up from over 250 different sources. Corkill, who co-founded the company in 2011, coordinated the sale of his company to Zillow Group for $400 million in 2023.

33

Co-Founder and CEO, 
Back At You
Glazer runs Back At You, a real estate tech firm that provides products related to financial reporting, customer relationship management and social media marketing for brokerages and agents. In 2023, the firm launched an automation tool and a design platform. Glazer co-founded the company in 2011. The firm reports serving over 300 Brokerages and 150,000 agents.

34

Minard owns and leads Delta Media Group, a real estate technology platform that offers digital marketing tools and services, including the DeltaNet platform. Launched in 1994, the firm released an updated version of its platform in 2023 with increased automation and AI capabilities.

35

Suarez, along with Ben Kinney, co-founded Place in 2020 as a platform that partners with real estate teams to provide the essential components for them to grow and increase profits. The firm has partnered with over 100 teams across North America and has raised over $100 million in financing. He is an expansion partner for PDX Property Group and Keller Williams (KW) Xperience Real Estate, and owns and operates other KW franchises in the U.S. and Costa Rica.

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