News Corp Announces New Leadership at Move, Inc.

“News Corp announced today that Ryan O’Hara will become Chief Executive Officer of Move, Inc. (“Move”), effective January 5, 2015.

Mr. O’Hara will replace CEO Steven Berkowitz, who has led the company since January 2009. News Corp acquired Move, a leading provider of online real estate services, including realtor.com®, last month.Mr. O’Hara will replace CEO Steven Berkowitz, who has led the company since January 2009. News Corp acquired Move, a leading provider of online real estate services, including realtor.com®, last month.

“We are excited to have secured Ryan O’Hara to take the helm at Move, given his record of transforming businesses in the digital age and his clear determination to accelerate the growth of the company. We are also extremely grateful to Steve Berkowitz for his years of astute and principled leadership, during which period he secured greater operating flexibility for the business and put the company on a solid growth trajectory,” said Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp.”

CEO Tedesco to lead Rhode Island state association

““It is with deep regret and mixed emotions that we accept Phil’s resignation. Since becoming our CEO, he has been instrumental in putting our association in solid administrative, financial and operational position. We wish him well in his new position,” said 2014 TAR President Steven Redmond.
The Rhode Island Association of REALTORS® is one of the largest professional organizations in the state. It has some 4,000 members in 600 offices who collectively closed 14,000 homes worth about $4.3 billion in sales last year. TAR has about 4,700 members who sold about 13,950 homes in 2013 for a total sales volume of $2.7 billion.

Sounds like a great gig for Phil. And still they say climate change isn’t real.

WAV Group founding partner Mike Audet joins company

Paul Hagey for Inman News:

“Audet says he’s excited to work in the broker-agent technology space because it’s still so wide open.

The MLS tech space is more mature, Audet said, but the broker and agent arena has shades of Wild West-like opportunity.

“There’s a huge amount of innovation in the space,” Audet said. He clicked off a number of niches: lead generation, transaction management, Web services, lead management.

Audet says he wants to help REW become a leader in end-to-end tech tools for brokers and agents.

Audet’s fellow WAV Group founding partner Victor Lund says he’s excited for Audet and expects WAV Group to keep on chugging without missing a beat as each partner had a hand in all aspects of the business. WAV Group will continue on led by Wilson and himself and two assistants, he said.”

Won’t be missing a beat. That’s good to hear.

Full Press Release Below:

——————————————————————————————————-
Founding Partner of the WAV Group Brings Over 30 Years of Industry Experience to Real Estate Webmasters

Nanaimo, B.C. July 10, 2014 – Real Estate Webmasters, an industry leading provider of real estate broker and agent technology, is pleased to announce Mike Audet is joining Real Estate Webmasters.

Mike Audet joins Real Estate Webmasters as the Vice President of Business Development. For the last 11 years, as a founding partner of the WAV Group consulting firm, Mike has provided executive level services to MLSs, associations, technology vendors and real estate companies and franchises in the US, Canada, Europe and South America with a focus on planning, technology evaluation, selection and improvement, sales and marketing development.

Prior to WAV Group, Mike served in executive positions with leading real estate technology companies PRC, Interealty, Moore Data and also Microsoft as part of the HomeAdvisor team.

According to Morgan Carey, Chief Executive Officer of Real Estate Webmasters, “It was clear to me, from our first consulting project with Mike the value he brought to our company. Mike has outstanding industry, management and technology experience, but as important, there is a natural fit with our organization. We worked well together from day one and our company saw immediate benefit from his involvement. A number of months ago I approached Mike with the idea of joining our team full time and I’m happy to announce he has joined our company as Vice President of Business Development.”

At Real Estate Webmasters, Mike will be focusing on enterprise level accounts and business as well as assisting with planning, research and overall product strategy.

About Real Estate Webmasters, LLC

Real Estate Webmasters, based in beautiful Nanaimo, B.C., on Vancouver Island, has over 100 employees and is a leading provider of real estate broker and agent web services. Offering a range of products from entry level to fully customized solutions Real Estate Webmasters is a full-service company, offering brokers and agents everything they need in web services from design and programming to SEO management. Their comprehensive web based suite of products is used by over 30,000 real estate professionals in North America.
Continued →
For more information visit: http://www.realestatewebmasters.com

–end—
If you would like more information about this topic please contact Stephanie Brown at stephanie@realestatewebmasters.com or call at 250-816-7364 to schedule an interview with either Morgan Carey or Mike Audet.