Executives Legend
The color legend to the right illustrates the various backgrounds for the top executives in the residential real estate industry.

Todd Gillenwater & Jim Lyon

CEO & Chair, 
Russ Lyon SIR
2025 Rank: 170
Gillenwater has overseen Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, which does over $4 billion in annual sales, since 2012. Active in real estate for 35 years, he first joined the firm in 1994. Lyon, board chair since 2008 when the firm joined Sotheby’s International Realty, is the third generation to lead the firm. Established in 1947, the company is now one of the nation’s top 50 brokerages with more than 900 agents across Arizona.

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