Abrams brings over 20 years of industry experience to his head of industry and learning role at Keller Williams (KW), the nation’s largest real estate franchise brand by sales volume, sides and agent count. Abrams focuses on helping KW’s nearly 158,000 agents grow their business through improved client experience. He joined KW in 2019 after co-founding digital training company Matrix Coaching and Training. Abrams also hosts “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent” podcast and starred in HGTV’s professional athlete real estate reality series “Scoring the Deal.”

Aguirre returns to the Watchlist for her 2024 leadership of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP). A NAHREP member since 2008, she also served as the founding president of the association’s Greater Las Vegas chapter. For the past seven years, the first-generation immigrant from Mexico has led Century 21 Americana in Las Vegas. The former Nevada Army National Guard has also served on board of directors for the Veteran Association of Real Estate Professionals.

As CEO at fintech and prop tech startup Earnnest, Altizer oversees a digital payment platform founded in 2017 to modernize financial transactions for homebuyers and agents. Altizer joined the Greenville, South Carolina-based firm in 2019 from BP, where he was senior vice president of North American fuel sales and marketing. He also brings leadership experience from McDonald’s and Jiffy Lube to his role.

President of The Agency since 2020, Austin is focused on strategic growth for the Los Angeles-based company’s residential real estate brokerage arm and its global new development division. She also oversees internal creative teams supporting the firm’s more than 1,700 agents who do nearly $8 billion in annual sales. She began working in the industry in 2006 at Alan Pinel Realtors. She later moved to Compass as chief operating officer for Bay Area operations.

Beagle leads and manages business operations for The Ashton Real Estate Group, a productive and well-known real estate team in Nashville, Tennessee, with Re/Max Advantage. She began her real estate career in 2008 at Coldwell Banker but has been with Re/Max companies since 2012. She was a founding member of the Nashville chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals and has served on its board as well as on the board of directors for the Residential Real Estate Council.

In the wake of REcolorado’s October 2024 acquisition by a private company, Bennett became president and CEO of Colorado’s largest MLS. The long-time industry veteran oversees day-to-day operations for the MLS, which has more than 26,000 subscribers. Bennett had previously spent a decade at REcolorado in leadership roles such as vice president and chief business development officer. Her background spans MLS content licensing, real estate data compliance and ownership of Seasons Real Estate Group.

In 2024, Brown was appointed chief growth officer at Peerage Realty Partners and joined the nation’s ninth largest brokerage’s executive committee. She also took on the role of leading the seven Sotheby’s International Realty affiliates within Peerage’s portfolio as president of Peerage Group Sotheby’s International Realty. Brown, who has more than two decades experience leading consumer businesses and brands, was most recently chief marketing officer for beauty company Maesa.

Brown is poised to take over NAR leadership when Kevin Sears’ term ends. Brown is a second-generation real estate professional with four decades in the industry. The broker-owner at Better Homes Realty and Brown Commercial Investment Real Estate Services in California has served in numerous local association committee positions and has previously led both the Oakland Association of Realtors and the California Association of Realtors as president. Brown’s brother, Bill, is also a Realtor who served as NAR’s 2017 president.

Bushard in May 2024 joined Re/Max Results as its president following the retirement of her father John Collopy. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Re/Max Results had nearly $6 billion in U.S. sales, making it the sixth largest franchisee in the nation by annual sales volume. Previously, Bushard was general manager of an affiliated company, Results Title, for close to 15 years.

Capezza joined the innovative brokerage-as-a-service platform in 2023 as its inaugural president to lead its market and customer success organizations. The San Francisco-based company provides key operational and back-office support for over 500 real estate companies, who collectively do $22 billion in sales volume. Prior to Side, he was senior vice president of business operations at Zillow Group and oversaw Zillow Premier Agent. Before that he oversaw sales and operations at Trulia.

Carrier oversees Century 21 New Millennium growth through marketing, training, recruiting and strategic acquisitions as CEO. A former executive vice president of growth for the firm — one of the nation’s largest Century 21 affiliates — Carrier was appointed president in October 2023. New Millennium has 25 offices serving Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. markets. Carrier joined the real estate industry in 2002 after playing Major League Lacrosse.

Choo begins his 10th year at Zillow Group as its new chief operating officer. Appointed COO in November 2024, Choo oversees Zillow’s for sale business strategy and operations and the company’s real estate industry product lines, sales and operations. He joined Zillow in 2015 with the acquisition of Trulia. Prior to that he had worked in the real estate tech space with Market Leader Inc. At Zillow, he was most recently senior vice president of real estate software, which included ShowingTime, dotloop and Zillow Showcase among other offerings.

Choynowski founded Immobel in 2000 to help organizations reach clients without language barriers. Today, the company reports more than 500,000 real estate professionals across 86 countries use its software as a service products. The company has two main markets: aggregating, translating and displaying international listings in 21 languages or creating white-label listings, data share platforms and private IDX to foster referral business. Its key brokerage clients include Sotheby’s International Realty, Century 21 and Corcoran. It also developed and powers MLS Match for MLSs such as Stellar MLS and Miami MLS.

Chrane’s Down Payment Resource (DPR) connects home buyers with homebuyer assistance programs. Since its founding in 2008, the company has reportedly connected more than 6 million unique users with down payment and closing cost assistance information. In 2024, the company added Heartland MLS and Canopy MLS to its client base of retail mortgage lenders, listing websites and real estate agents. Chrane began his career in real estate before moving to mortgages and then founding the DPR database, which now has reportedly more than 2,300 affordability programs.

Cofano leads real estate digital marketing technology and analytics solution provider Collabra. He is also president and CEO for Collabra’s end-to-end platform helping agents analyze and grow their digital presence, SphereBuilder. In 2024, Collabra joined the CoreLogic Real Estate Alliance Network and partnered with NextHome and MLSListings. Cofano joined Collabra in 2021 with experience from leadership roles at Move, eXp World Holdings and NexTitle and as counsel for brokerages and MLSs, and president of Missouri Realtors.

Cooper’s Empowering Women in Real Estate started out as a Facebook community. Today, it has more than 30,000 members as well as a podcast, annual conference and monthly meetups throughout North America. She also has a coaching program that helps individual agents improve their marketing strategies and business plans. She remains owner of Northern Virginia’s Platinum Group Real Estate team, powered by The Real Brokerage. She began her real estate career in 2002 at Re/Max after spending a decade as an emergency medical technician.

Corr directs strategic planning, agent and company growth initiatives, and agent services for @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, which is due to join Compass in early 2025. She took on the role of chief brokerage officer in 2023 after nearly five years as executive president of culture and agent development. She has been with the brokerage for over two decades, having started as a real estate consultant before moving into brokerage services in 2010.

In September 2024, Crigger joined the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) as associate CEO under John DiMichele. Crigger’s role focuses on operational strategy and fostering stakeholder relationships for North America’s largest local Realtor board with over 73,000 members. He is also co-president of TRREB’s MLS and technology services subsidiary, PropTx Innovations.

In 2024, after being appointed new CEO of this real estate review aggregator, Crisera facilitated the acquisition of Curated Social, which enables agents to nurture their sphere of influence to attract referrals and repeat clients. The move helps expand the review platform’s offerings to include more marketing tools for its U.S., Australian and New Zealand markets. RateMyAgent, which entered the U.S. in 2018, is reportedly used by more than 348,000 agents worldwide. Crisera was previously chief operating officer of MoxiWorks.

Ellis serves as chief strategy officer at Baird & Warner, which has over 2,000 agents who do over $5 billion in annual sales. Also the president of residential sales, she has served in several executive positions at the firm since 1999, Ellis has responsibility for aligning the Chicago, Illinois-based company’s business units around a strategic plan to drive growth. Ellis is a three-decade industry veteran who has remained loyal to Baird & Warner throughout her career. She was instrumental also in creating the firm’s training program, which prepares sales associates for managerial roles.

Faupel leads the global membership organization she founded for top professionals in luxury real estate. The invitation-only Realm offers members access to networking and training opportunities as well as a technology platform that enriches client data and improves agent and client experience. Launched in 2020, the network has grown to connect a reported 550 members from 150 different brokerages worldwide. Faupel is also a partner of Compass Jackson Hole, which she co-founded in 2008.

Fegley, who leads Phoenix Realtors with over 10,000 members, emerged as a key voice in evolving NAR’s three-way agreement in 2024. The local Realtor association he leads announced a new MLS Choice option, which allows real estate licensees to become members of the local association without joining the Arizona state association or NAR. The national association responded with a cease and desist letter and later moved to revoke Phoenix Realtors’ charter. Fegley is a seasoned trade association leader who has helmed the Phoenix association since 2019.

Following a late 2024 leadership shakeup at Douglas Elliman Realty, Richard Ferrari now oversees the nation’s eighth largest brokerage, which has nearly 7,000 agents who do approximately $34 billion in annual sales. Ferrari had managed the brokerage’s sales and operations in New York and the broader Northeast territory. He rejoined the firm in 2021 as president and CEO for New York City and the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions after a stint at Brown Harris Stevens and later advising Halstead.

Fowler has led Doorify MLS (formerly Triangle MLS), the 33rd largest MLS in the U.S., with more than 14,000 subscribers, since late 2021. He started his career as a real estate appraiser before co-founding Solid Earth. He led the MLS technology company for twenty years before selling the business to FBS, which later sold to broker-software company Tribus. In his role at Cary, North Carolina-based doorify, Fowler applies his deep knowledge of software that supports Realtors and their clients. He is active with The Council of Multiple Listing Services and received its 2024 Shuttleworth MLS Executive of the Year Award.

Galvan is due to succeed Bob Hale as CEO and president of the Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) in January 2026. Hale, who joined the association in 1973 and led the nation’s largest state association in 1988, is transitioning Galvan to the role in 2025. Galvan first joined HAR in 1996, left for two years to lead the Realtor Association of Fort Lauderdale, then returned to the Texas association’s managerial team. He also serves on NAR’s finance committee.

Garg co-founded Flyhomes, which helps home-buyers secure purchases with all-cash offers, in 2016. He continues to lead the tech-forward finance company as CEO. Flyhomes also helps homeowners move into a new home without needing to sell their current home and offers an all-inclusive listing service. In 2024, it also made moves to enter the portal arena with a new site, covering 75% of the U.S. population, which enables homebuyers or sellers to interact with a chat interface to learn more about specific markets or home characteristics.

Guiggio, the chief operating officer of Fathom Holdings, also became president of its subsidiary, Fathom Realty, in 2024. In the latter role, she leads a nationwide team of nearly 12,000 agents at a rapidly growing firm. Her oversight of recruiting saw Fathom ranked as one of the nation’s top 25 real estate brokerage firms. A 14-year veteran of Fathom Realty in North Carolina, Giuggio was first promoted to her leadership role at the parent company in 2022.

Hardy serves as an office managing broker, leads a real estate team, and directs diversity and inclusion at Edina Realty. An agent and broker at the HomeServices of America subsidiary since 2021, he has been leading diversity and inclusion since 2021. Hardy is also president of the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors, the U.S.’s 35th largest local Realtor association with over 9,000 members. In 2020, he founded Just Deeds, a coalition addressing systemic racism in housing in Minnesota.

Hickok oversees the Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO), an international organization supporting state agency real estate commission officials in administering and enforcing license law. Hickok joined ARELLO in December 2023 after serving as CEO for the Oklahoma Association of Realtors for four years. She spent 12 years prior to that at the Greater Springfield Board of Realtors and Southern Missouri Regional MLS. She serves currently on the NAR Association Executives Committee.

Johnson has led the Park City Board of Realtors as CEO since 2018. Johnson took a stand in October 2024 against NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy. Along with a letter to the association expressing concerns over possible litigation, Johnson informed her local association’s nearly 1,800 members that it would not adhere to the Clear Cooperation Policy while NAR is considering changes. Johnson began her career in organized real estate as director of operations for Greater Nashville Realtors.

LaCosta chairs the board of directors for Leading Real Estate Companies of the World. The by-invitation-only network reportedly connects 550 firms and 134,000 sales associates in more than 70 countries. LaCosta also oversees Howard Hanna Coach Realtors, a Long Island-based luxury real estate firm, as broker-owner. The family-owned Coach Realtors joined forces with Howard Hanna in 2023.

As chief operating officer for HSF Affiliates, helps oversee HomeServices of America’s flagship franchise brand, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, the U.S.’s fifth largest franchise brand with nearly $122 billion in annual 2023 sales. Formerly senior vice president and chief financial officer of the division he has worked in for over a decade, Ladd was promoted to his current role in 2024. The CPA originally began his career as a staff accountant at Weichert Realtors.

Landon was appointed CEO of MetroTex in March 2024. In this role he oversees the nation’s sixth largest local realtor association with nearly 25,000 members. Landon began his career as a legislative assistant and director in the U.S. House of Representatives. After nearly a decade in Washington, he moved to governmental affairs for the San Antonio Board of Realtors. He was most recently CEO of the Lexington-Bluegrass Association of Realtors in Kentucky before returning to the Lone Star state for MetroTex.

Lappe leads software company DirectOffer, which she founded in 2019. The company specializes in multilingual solutions and ADA-compliance aiming to make property listings more accessible and help agents and brokers generate more leads with tools such as audio tours and interest tracking. The company has partnerships with some of the industry’s largest companies including Re/Max, HomeServices of America and Exit Realty.

Lundy leads the AI-based, voice-activated real estate listing search company that bears his name. He co-founded the tech company, which uses natural language-based search to deliver listing information, in 2018. Lundy, which is already used by heavy hitters such as First MLS, Stellar MLS and the Houston Association of Realtors, aims to enhance accessibility to the homebuying journey.

In 2024, McCaskill became chief operating officer and general counsel for North Carolina-based Canopy Realtor Association, its MLS subsidiary and its housing foundation. McCaskill provides legal guidance and compliance support and oversees day-to-day operations, strategy development and innovation for the group, which ranks as the U.S.’s 15th largest local Realtor association and runs the nation’s 17th largest MLS. A licensed Realtor, McCaskill previously served as Canopy’s assistant general counsel and as vice president of member services.

As head of industry relations at Anywhere Real Estate McCrory advocates for the nation’s largest real estate enterprise with more than 186,000 agents. In 2024, she called on NAR to eliminate restrictions listing co-mingling, scale back Clear Cooperation Policy and allow non-member agents to share listings and use lockboxes. After starting her career at the Greater Milwaukee Association of Realtors, McCrory moved to NAR as an MLS manager.

With the October 2024 resignation of Chief Legal Officer Katie Johnson, Muchow now serves as NAR’s most senior in-house counsel. In this role she plays a key legal role at an organization navigating major industry changes, internal transformation, continued Department of Justice scrutiny and controversy surrounding key policies such as Clear Cooperation and mandatory membership. She joined NAR as a staff attorney in 2010 and became general counsel, vice president legal affairs and antitrust compliance in 2023.

As chief operating officer at eXp Realty, O’Neill works to scale the cloud-based real estate brokerage’s operations while enhancing end-to-end agent experience and improving operational workflow. He joined the brokerage giant in 2022, bringing more than 25 years of experience building and optimizing high-growth technology businesses. Under his direction in 2024, eXp Realty made several revenue-sharing program changes including enabling agents to instantly withdraw earnings and offering attraction bonuses to agents who sponsor new agents.

Chief of staff and board strategy at the Ontario Real Estate Association since 2018, Richards was appointed interim CEO in August 2024. She took over the role from Tim Hudak (who had spent seven years at the helm). Richards continues to provide fiscal oversight, program management, business planning and corporate strategy while taking on responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Canada’s largest provincial real estate industry association serving nearly 100,000 members across Ontario.

Rosenberg leads Denver, Colorado-based Kentwood Real Estate, a subsidiary of HomeServices of America, as president and CEO. Rosenberg took the helm in 2018 after co-founding one of the luxury real estate firm’s offices a decade earlier. In addition to roles with the Denver Board of Realtors and NAR, she has also served on organizational boards related to home equity and property tech startups.

Rozenblat oversees operations at the rapidly growing Real, which has become one of the nation’s top 25 largest brokerages within a decade of its launch. The company has more than 13,000 agents doing over $21 billion in annual sales and is continually expanding its market presence and agent count. Rozenblat joined the company as executive vice president of operations in 2023 and within the year was named chief operating officer.

A ten-year veteran of Engel & Völkers Americas as president and CEO of the New York City brokerage and chief strategy officer of Engel & Völkers Americas, Siegel took over for Anthony Hitt as interim CEO in late 2024. Siegel is also global head of the brand’s private office (for clients with high-value and often multi-market real estate portfolios) and development services units. Siegel began his career at Sotheby’s International Real Estate helping to build the luxury brokerage business from scratch.

Since 2022, Socci has overseen operations across William Pitt | Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. The brokerage’s 1,100 agents did more than $5 billion in sales in 2023 under the two distinct banners. While holding previous key positions in business development and operations, Socci helped the firm proactively embrace digital platforms and virtual interactions.

In July 2024, Valdes left his role as chief growth officer at eXp Realty, overseeing the company’s growth internationally and in the commercial space, to focus on the international expansion of LPT Realty. The cloud-based brokerage launched just two years ago and had reached 25 states by the end of 2023 and added 13 more in 2024. Valdes will now helm the effort to bring the LPT agent-centric model to Canada and other international markets.

After 18 years at Coldwell Banker, Visioli brought her strategic and implementation acumen to Anywhere Brands in 2023. It was a natural progression as Coldwell Banker is one of the brokerage franchise brands under the Anywhere umbrella, along with Sotheby’s International Realty, Century 21, ERA, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and Corcoran Group. During her tenure at Coldwell Banker, Visioli was credited with spearheading the launch of the brand’s Inclusive Ownership program aimed at increasing the representation of minority, women, LGBTQ+ and veteran entrepreneurs.

The National Association of Realtors’ first chief human resources officer, White takes on the role as the national association aims to transform its internal culture on the heels of a 2023 sexual harassment scandal. In November 2024 White took on responsibility for fostering staff development and optimizing NAR processes. The veteran of human resources and people engagement has previously worked at media, fashion and beauty brands and was most recently at advertising technology company The Trade Desk.

Williamson is chief business officer of the Real Estate Business Services (REBS), the for-profit subsidiary of the California Association of Realtors. In her role, she oversees business strategy for the leading provider of real estate products and services to practitioners in California and nationwide. She has worked with REBS for the past 25 years.

Wong oversees the graphic design and print production studio he founded in 2012. Maxa enables real estate brokerages and teams to streamline marketing, simplify brand asset and content distribution, avoid brand inconsistencies and more. The digital platform makes it possible even for individual agents to create print, social media and email marketing using preloaded templates customized to the brand.

Having spent 2024 as the president-elect, Ziegler in 2025 takes on the mantle of president and board chair for the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance. The group advocates for fair housing for all while educating professionals and providing opportunities to celebrate and elevate members and allied partners. The Atlanta, Georgia-based Realtor is president and associate broker at Coldwell Banker’s Common Ground Home Team. He began his real estate career in 2010.