Looking at Hospitality Holistically by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Sean Breuner was a kid, some of the best times of the year involved his entire extended family going on vacation together. “We would travel and stay in nice three- or four-star hotels, and I remember all of us staying in different...
From a System of Record to a System of Action by Carole VanSickle Ellis The concept of property management has been documented as long ago as 3,000 B.C., when Mesopotamian priests employed specialized property overseers to manage the day-to-day operations of agrarian estates while the priests were...
Optimizing Property Management in Measurable & Historic Ways by Carole VanSickle Ellis When asked about the future of property management, Ray Hespen, co-founder and CEO of the cloud-based, property-maintenance-operations platform Property Meld, has an unusual answer: optimization....
Putting Property Managers & Pet Owners on the Same Page by Carole VanSickle Ellis When John Bradford, founder and CEO of digital, third-party pet-screening platform PetScreening, first had the idea for his company, he already had firsthand experience with the benefits and potential pitfalls...
Striking the Right Balance by Carole VanSickle Ellis Justin Fordham, CEO of Fordham Enterprises, believes firmly in that now-famous axiom: “If you build it, they will come.” Unlike Kevin Costner in his classic baseball movie, however, Fordham is not building ballparks in corn fields. Instead, he...
Connecting Investors to the Future of SFR by Carole VanSickle Ellis When national mortgage technology and services provider ServiceLink was founded more than 55 years ago, the company dedicated itself to finding “technology-driven solutions” for lenders and, soon, mortgage servicers and real...
Built on Decades of Experience for Today’s Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis In the early 2000s, when Andy Laing, president of Genstone Holdings, met Ed Fay, founder and CEO of the company, the two men had no idea that roughly 14 years later they would team up to successfully scale one of the...
Informa Real Estate Continues IMN’s Tradition of Innovative Opportunities by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Steve Glener, director of research at IMN, started with the company more than 25 years ago, he knew it would be hard work creating and implementing conferences that would provide “unrivalled...
Bridging the Gap Between Data & the Real World by Carole VanSickle Ellis When Ivo Draginov, president of BatchData, started his company in 2018 along with co-founders Anny Draginova, COO, and Jesse Burrell, CEO, the three brought a wealth of real estate investing and construction management...
