From Prom Dresses to Real Estate By Brittney Fairweather My career started out quite differently than most. For one, I was a teenager. Second, I wasn’t exactly seeking a lifetime career. I had been asked to the prom and I was thrilled. I had the exact dress picked out that I wanted. However,...
“Getting Into the Weeds” to Achieve Success Where did you attend college and what did you study? I got my undergraduate degree at Clemson University majoring in finance and accounting. Then, I received my MBA with a focus on management and leadership at Queens University at the McColl School of...
Brett Worthington: Veteran To Innovative Disruptor by Alison Bishop “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far go together.” African Proverb. This African proverb is a core value of Brett Worthington, senior vice president of business development at Frontdoor. It symbolizes many...
Brad Cossingham's Journey From Fax Room to CEO by Carole VanSickle Ellis Brad Cossingham, CEO of National Field Representatives (NFR), grew up around the property preservation business. “My father founded the company in 1989 when he purchased two existing companies and formed NFR,” Cossingham...
PIP Group's Charles Sells' Real Estate Journey by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Charles Sells, founder and CEO of Platinum Investment Properties (PIP) Group looks back on how he got started in real estate, he proudly admits he started at the very bottom of the ladder. “In my early 20s, I took a...
Five Brothers' Nickie Kalas is Dedicated to Growth & Service by Carole VanSickle Ellis Nickie Badalamenti-Kalas grew up in the business of real estate. As the youngest child of Joseph “Joe Bada” Badalamenti, founder and present-day chairman emeritus of field service solutions provider Five...
Home Depot’s Frank Blake Will Never Stop Building by Carole VanSickle Ellis Frank Blake will be the first to tell you he’s extremely grateful for his team. In fact, that is the mantra you will hear over and over in conversation if you speak with him for any length of time. “You are only as good as...
Everything in Life is Sales By: Danny Byrnes, Chief Revenue Officer, Nationwide Title Clearing When I was in high school, I started working at a technology company that developed and delivered an accounting software platform. Years later, that company was acquired by Microsoft. It was an easy job...
I remember it like it was yesterday. My business partner and I were in the process of closing a construction loan to continue developing a 19-acre retail center in Arizona. It was 2008 and the financial and real estate collapse of the Great Recession was upon us. Capital dried up immediately,...
