Steven H. Berkowitz

CEO
Move Inc.

Steve Berkowitz was named the CEO of Realtor.com operator Move Inc. in January 2009, having been appointed to the company's board of directors in June 2008. Berkowitz came to Move from Microsoft Corp. where as senior vice president of the Online Services Group he ran the company's online business group, which includes MSN.com, MSNTV and MSN Internet Access programming, advertising sales, business development and marketing for Live Platform, MSN and Windows... Live. Before joining Microsoft in May 2006, Berkowitz was CEO of online search engine Ask Jeeves from January 2004 until August 2005, when the business was sold to IAC/InterActiveCorp. Ask Jeeves was renamed IAC Search and Media, and Berkowitz served as its CEO until May 2006.

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Louis Cammarosano

General Manager
HomeGain

Louis Cammarosano joined Emeryville, Calif.-based lead generation and real estate marketing company HomeGain in 2005 as general counsel. He held two other executive-level positions with the company before becoming general manager in May 2006. Cammarosano is a former lawyer for Homestore, predecessor to Realtor.com operator Move Inc. Before getting his law degree, Cammarosano was a tenured school teacher in New York's South Bronx.

Twitter: @lcammarosa

Pete Flint

Co-founder
Trulia

Pete Flint co-founded property search site Trulia in 2005. Since then, the site has grown to become one of the top 10 most-visited real estate websites in the U.S., according to Web metrics firm Hitwise. This year, Trulia added rental search and a rent-vs.-buy index to the repertoire of tools available on its site. The company also updated its iPhone application to include rental and sold listings.

Marty Frame

President
Realtors Property Resource LLC

Marty Frame is the president of RPR LLC, the National Association of Realtors' subsidiary that's providing a parcel-based national property database to NAR members. After launching in 2009, RPR went live this year and is on track to be accessible by nearly 500,000 Realtors by year end. Frame is responsible for RPR's product strategies and business operations. Before moving to RPR as one of the company's founding executives, he was the general manager of... Cyberhomes.com for Fidelity National Financial and Lender Processing Services. A graduate of Yale University, Frame has also served as chief technology officer of Move Inc.'s Realtor.com.

Twitter: @martyframe

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Sami Inkinen

Co-founder
Trulia

Sami Inkinen co-founded property search site Trulia in 2005. Since then, the site has grown to become one of the top 10 most-visited real estate websites in the U.S., according to Web metrics firm Hitwise. This year, Trulia added rental search and a rent-vs.-buy index to the repertoire of tools available on its site. The company also updated its iPhone application to include rental and sold listings.

Twitter: @samiinkenen

Todd John

Chief Operating Officer
Listingbook

Todd John joined Listingbook, a company that partners with multiple listing services to provide tools connecting agents and their clients online, in 2008. As chief operating officer, John is responsible for company sales and revenue, marketing, customer service, operations and site development. He left an on-demand book publishing company in December 2000 to work at AOL, and served for eight years in various divisions at Time Warner. Listingbook in August... announced it was taking over operations at online real estate search site Cyberhomes.com from LPS Real Estate Group Inc. Earlier this year, Listingbook reported that about 140,000 agents were using Listingbook accounts to serve an estimated 1 million consumers, and the company has partnerships with more than 40 MLSs that, together, represent about 500,000 agents.

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Saul Klein

Senior Vice President
Point2 Technologies

Saul Klein has 36 years of experience in the real estate industry. He was appointed CEO of Point2 Technologies in December 2007. This year, he led the company through a successful acquisition by Yardi Inc., a software development and technology services company. Klein co-founded Internet Crusade, which operates the RealTown online real estate network and is the course provider for the National Association of Realtors' e-PRO certification program and a... complimentary Web 2.0 and Social Media course for Realtors.

Twitter: @saulklein
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Mark A. Lesswing

Chief Technology Officer
National Association of Realtors

Mark Lesswing is a bona fide techie, whose career experiences include programming robots right out of college (B.S., electrical engineering, Lehigh University) before moving into the field of object-oriented programming. Lesswing has worked for large database vendors like Sybase and Oracle, and started his own consulting business in 1992. Before joining NAR, he spent three years facilitating corporate turnarounds. Lesswing is a regularly featured speaker... at major trade conferences.

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Ian Morris

President and CEO
Market Leader

Ian Morris led the successful public offering of HouseValues, now known as Market Leader, in late 2004. The company offers online marketing services to real estate professionals and the weak housing market has struck the company hard -- it reported a net loss of $3.4 million in the third quarter. Morris came to HouseValues in 2002 and was promoted to CEO after his first year with the company. Before joining HouseValues, Morris had operated MSN HomeAdvisor,... Microsoft's online real estate business.

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Craig Newmark

Founder, Customer Service Representative
Craigslist

Craig Newmark -- the man behind the global network of Craigslist websites -- launched an e-mail list of San Francisco events as a hobby in 1995. The list became a website, the company was incorporated as a for-profit in 1999 and its family of sites -- which offer real estate for-sale and rental listings among a wide range of categories -- now collect over 20 billion page views per month. The site earns revenue from job ads in 18 city areas, New York City... apartment listings and some other ads. There are about 700 local Craigslist sites in 70 countries, and about 50 million U.S. users. Newmark has taken up a number of causes since founding craigslist, supporting the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Donorschoose.org, the Sunlight Foundation and Kiva.org, among others. He also serves on the advisory board for Wikipedia. A self-described nerd, Newmark is a software engineer who spent 30 years working with computers for a range of companies, including IBM and Bank of America.

Twitter: @craignewmark
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Sean O'Toole

Founder and CEO
ForeclosureRadar.com

Sean O'Toole is the founder and CEO of ForeclosureRadar, a site that tracks the foreclosure market in five Western states. O'Toole started his first software company at 18 and remained in the software industry for 15 years before trying his hand at real estate investment. By the time he launched ForeclosureRadar, he had bought and flipped more than 150 residential and commercial foreclosures.

Twitter: @4closureradar
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Steve Ozonian

CEO
RealEstate.com

Steve Ozonian, a well-traveled real estate veteran who has served in executive roles for Re/Max International Inc., Prudential Real Estate Services, Realtor.com and Bank of America, among others, was hired to serve as CEO for the RealEstate.com division of Tree.com -- parent to LendingTree.com -- in October 2010. Ozonian has seen the real estate industry from many sides during his 25 years in the industry. He had served as CEO and board chairman at Help-U-Sell... Real Estate from 2006 to 2008, resigning from his role amid a management restructuring and financial troubles that resulted in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. RealEstate.com, Realtors is a brokerage company that operates in about 20 markets and has about 800 sales agents. RealEstate.com also offers Broker Network, a lead-generation program for real estate brokers, and the RealEstate.com site serves as a consumer property-search portal.

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Spencer Rascoff

CEO
Zillow

Spencer Rascoff, who served as chief financial officer and vice president of marketing when Zillow launched in 2005 and was promoted to chief operating officer in October 2008, stepped into the CEO role when co-founders Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink departed from their respective posts as CEO and president in September 2010. Barton, who earlier founded online travel agency Expedia, still serves as executive chairman for Zillow, and Frink, formerly senior... vice president of supplier relations at Expedia, serves as chief strategy officer. Rascoff also worked at Expedia, serving as vice president of lodging, and in 1999 he founded travel company Hotwire.com prior to its acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2003. From 1997-99 he worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and also had served as an investment professional for Texas Pacific Group.

Twitter: @spencerrascoff

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Greg Robertson

Founder
Vendor Alley blog

Greg Robertson founded Vendor Alley, a blog dedicated to the real estate technology industry, in February 2007. He is also co-founder of W&R Studios, a Web applications software company. The company's apps include real estate social bookmarking site Dwellicious, and online real estate report generator Cloud CMA. In the past, Robertson served as the general manager and vice president of real estate tech company eNeighborhoods. He currently sits of the board... of directors of the Council of MLS, a trade group for MLS providers.

Twitter: @gregrobertson

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James Saccacio

CEO
RealtyTrac

Since joining RealtyTrac as chairman and CEO in October 2000, James J. Saccacio has built the company from a local provider of foreclosure data to the nation's leading online foreclosure marketplace, with more than 1.5 million foreclosure properties attracting more than 3 million unique monthly visitors. Before joining RealtyTrac, Saccacio was the principal of the Transition Management Group (TMG), a turnaround specialty firm, where he managed the successful... turnaround of a $75 million consumer products company. He began his career at Bank of America as one of 50 undergraduates selected to receive accelerated training, rising to assistant vice president in the corporate banking division. Saccacio holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting and finance from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.

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Errol Samuelson

President
Realtor.com

Errol Samuelson has served as president of Realtor.com since February 2007 and was appointed chief revenue officer of Move Inc., the website's parent company, in May 2009. Samuelson has been with Move Inc. since 2003, where he previously served as president of Top Producer Systems, a Move subsidiary. Prior to Move, Samuelson was director of sales, marketing and product management at GTE Enterprise Solutions.

Steve Schultz

Director, Finance and Real Estate (former)
Yahoo Inc.

Steve Schultz had served as director of finance and real estate for search giant Yahoo until late 2010, seeing through the formation of an advertising alliance between Yahoo Real Estate and Zillow that allows Zillow to manage for-sale property listings on both sites and supplies Yahoo with Zillow's "Premier Agent" advertising platform. In August, Yahoo Real Estate overtook Realtor.com as the most-visited real estate website for the first time in the three-year... history of monthly data gathered by Web metrics firm Experian Hitwise, that company reported in September. Schultz had previously served as director of product management at Active Decisions, a company that produced software for retailers and banks, and he was director of product marketing at Epiphany, a tech company offering customer relationship management and automated marketing tools.

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Sam Sebastian

Director, Local and Business-to-Business Markets
Google Inc.

Sam Sebastian, who has led Google's local and business-to-business markets' direct sales and service organizations in North America for the past four years, assists a range of local business types, including real estate brokerages, in using Google's advertising platform. He previously worked for Classified Ventures LLC, a tech venture launched by collaborating newspaper companies, as general manager for search site Homescape.com, and senior vice president... of sales and marketing at real estate lead-generation and marketing company HomeGain. Sebastian had earlier also served as a consultant for Arthur Andersen in Chicago. Sebastian was a featured speaker during Google's Think Real Estate 2010 event for real estate marketers, which was held in New York City in October.

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Anant Yardi

President
Yardi Systems Inc.

Anant Yardi launched a startup software venture in 1982 that has since grown to over 1,600 employees working in 20 offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company has a headquarters in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1984, the company's first program, "Basic Property Management," which ran on an Apple II computer, was sold to brokerage company Sabaco Realtors. The company's client list now exceeds 20,000 companies, which collectively represent... about seven million residential units and 7 billion square fee of commercial space, the company has reported. Yardi made some big plays for real estate tech companies in 2010, acquiring real estate data company PropertyShark.com and Point2 Technology Inc. PropertyShark.com offers volumes of information, down to the parcel level, on a range of properties in select markets across the nation, while Point2 offers real estate software, marketing, website and syndication tools, and software and software and online tools for the heavy equipment industry. Prior to launching Yardi Systems, Yardi worked for Burroughs Corp., now Unisys.

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