Innovator Series: Technology Biographies

Phil Dawley
Chief Technology Officer
Move.com and REALTOR.com
Dawley has been with the company since 1993 when it was Homestore Inc., and he was instrumental in the launch of REALTOR.com, the Internet’s leading online real estate site. Today, his responsibilities include both the operational and product engineering aspects of the site.

Sami Inkinen
Chief Operating Officer and Cofounder
Trulia Inc.
Inkinen had diverse experience in technology and management through his work with Microsoft, Nokia, and McKinsey & Co., as well as through the launch and sale of Matchem, his own wireless software company. In less than two years, his leadership has helped Trulia become one of the fastest-growing real estate Web sites, with more than 2 million monthly visits to broker sites, including Long & Foster Real Estate and Alain Pinel, REALTORS®.

Mark Lesswing
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
National Association of REALTORS®.
Lesswing heads NAR’s efforts to assist REALTORS® and REALTOR® associations in understanding and implementing technology solutions that benefit their businesses and their customers. One such effort is his chairmanship of the Real Estate Transactions Standards Committee.

Char MacCallum, ABR, CRS
President
Char MacCallum Real Estate
With 30 years in real estate sales, MacCallum now operates a boutique real estate company in Olathe, Kan. She’s an avid technology adopter and a blogger, but firmly believes in combining high tech and high touch.

Ken Meyer
Senior Manager
Deloitte Consulting
Meyer leads Deloitte’s real estate consulting practice in the Northeast region. His group assists clients in developing improved business processes and in designing and implementing business technologies.

Mike Montsko
President
Weichert Lead Network
Weichert, REALTORS®, is known in the real estate industry for its technological sophistication. Montsko spearheaded the major initiative that created the company’s customer contact center. The center offers personal responses—typically in less than one minute—to all online and toll-free–number customer inquiries.

Casey Reagan
Chief Technology Officer
RE/MAX Northern Illinois
Reagan introduced and directed the growth of the region’s first virtual office Web site, www.illinoisproperty .com, and has been instrumental in expanding the extranet applications for associates and consumers.

David Therrien
Chief Technology Officer
Keller Williams Realty
Therrien, an active member of Keller Williams’ technology and research group, is responsible for the research, development. and integration of technology tools for the franchise’s more than 72,000 associates.

Jorrit Van Der Meulen
Vice President of Partner Relations
Zillow.com
Van der Meulen heads up the company’s advertising and industry relations department and is responsible for talking to, and more important listening to, the greater real estate community. Zillow recently launched a feature that enables real estate practitioners to post an unlimited number of listings on the site for free as well as EZAds, which enables practitioners to quickly place and pay for ads.

Michael Yang
General Manager
Yahoo! Real Estate
Yang oversees one of the fastest-growing properties within Yahoo and the second-largest online real estate site, according to Comscore. Previously Yang led the partnering, sales strategy, and product marketing efforts for several Yahoo! Local Markets & Commerce properties, including real estate. Before Yahoo, Yang was principal of Atlas Ventures, an international venture capital company investing in enterprise software and IT solutions.