Management Team

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Kris brings over 20 years of experience in the Internet, wireless and consulting industries. Kris has extensive experience developing new and emerging products, applications and services, including in the areas of ecommerce, wireless applications and Internet services. Most recently, Kris was Director, New Business Development for Classmates.com, a top 50 Internet property. Before Classmates, Kris was at AT&T Wireless for almost 8 years, where he spent 4 years in the mobile Internet group as Director, Business Development. There, Kris lead the business development team that created the content billing platform for mMode and executed relationships with Qpass, Infospace, Amazon.com, eBay, Ofoto, Snapfish and others. In addition, Kris was a founding board member of the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to that, he worked in the Finance/Tax and Acquisition departments. Kris started his career as an accountant with Arthur Andersen & Company and KPMG. Kris has an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Tulsa and holds a CPA license (inactive) in the state of Washington. Kris also has an MBA from the University of Washington. Kris is also a licensed real estate agent in the state of Washington. See more of me on Facebook

Niels manages the Production and Development facility. Niels has extensive international experience over the last 35 years managing international production facilities for large multinational companies as well as his own niche business ventures in countries such as Poland, Romania, France and the UK. In his younger days, Niels worked for IBM and was a Vice President at Rex Rotary – at that time a major Danish company in the copier, duplicator and offset industry – with subsidiaries and production centers around the world. Niels formed his own management consulting company with major Danish companies as clients, among them IBM, Denmark. Niels has a degree in international economics from the University of Copenhagen.

Marlin brings over 40 years of sales and business development experience to FloorPlanOnline®, including specific experience in the real estate industry. Marlin has been the broker/owner of the Cone Team, an independent residential and commercial real estate brokerage firm in Kansas City. Prior to founding the Cone Team, Marlin and his wife Linda were real estate agents for RE/MAX in Kansas City for 11 years, earning top sales awards for several years. Marlin has held high level management positions in the corporate world as well, including CEO of the Bruss Company and President of IBP International, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Iowa Beef Processors, one of the largest food processing companies in the world. Marlin holds a bachelors of science agree in agricultural economics from Iowa State University and completed Stanford University’s Executive Program for Small Business

Gerry has more than 25+ years of experience in sales and business development. He handles the key Eastern Region for sales, home of Cendant, Prudential, Weichert and other large customers or prospects. Before joining FloorPlanOnline®, Gerry was with Sharpe Electronics in a sales executive position. Prior to that, Gerry was with AT&T Wireless for over 8 years, the last 4 in the mobile Internet group as a Director, Business Development, where he focused on financial services. Gerry began his career with IBM as a sales executive and was with them for over 15 years. Gerry graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He also has over 1500 hours of IBM sales training.

Mike has over 16 years of real estate and technology experience and owns his own real estate consulting firm rahmn(dot)com.  Mike was the VP of Technology at Windermere Services Company, the technology group that served 10,000 Windermere agents and 300+ offices.  Mike lead the industry effort to share listings across brokers and multiple listing services, now something that is commonplace, but unheard of in the late 90’s.  In addition, Mike created the industry’s first interactive map application with Property Point (again, now a common tool used by Zillow and virtually every real estate brand).   Mike was responsible for managing the infrastructure that hosted over 19 million photos from over 40 MLS systems which generated 45+ million page views per month from 700,000 unique visitors.  Mike brings a unique perspective in that he knows technology, but he was also a realtor for 5 years prior to Windermere.   In addition, Mike was a co-founder of ePropertyData, LLC, a commercial multiple listing service that was sold to the National Association of Realtors in 2008.   Mike holds a BA in Business Administration from Eastern Washington University and attended graduate level courses at the University of Minnesota.

Chris has over 15 years of marketing and technology experience and owns his own real estate marketing consulting company FinchMktg(dot)com.  Chris worked as an Account Executive for two advertising agencies and led the marketing efforts for a local ISP.  He brought a technology driven focus to the real estate printing and direct mail business before joining FloorPlanOnline 5 years ago.  Chris is an strong advocate of sharing solutions and tools in the Real Estate community that help agents promote their brand and their listings.  He has led sessions, taught thousands and helped promote more than a dozen Real Estate Bar Camp events nationwide.

Don is owner of Pearce Construction Company, a large regional construction company in Kansas City.  Don is also Chairman of the Board of Builders Association of Kansas/Missouri.  Don has built a successful, multi-million dollar construction business over the last 30 years.   Don is an architect and received his degree Kansas State University.  He is also a past board member of the Builders Association.

Anil is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence at Ignition Partners and an advisor to several start-up companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Trumba Corporation, a venture-backed start-up developing an online calendaring service. From early 2003 to late 2004, Anil served as Senior Vice President of New Businesses for Classmates Online and a Board Member of Classmates International where he launched several new businesses. Anil is perhaps best known for his leadership role at VeriSign, where, during his six-year tenure, he helped transform the company from a privately-held start-up into a globally-recognized security and telecommunications infrastructure company. Anil helped grow VeriSign from $1 million to over $1 billion in revenues and was part of the team that completed the company’s highly successful initial public offering, secondary offering and over a dozen strategic acquisitions. Prior to VeriSign, Anil spent seven years at American Express in a variety of consumer direct marketing and new product development roles and vice president of the affinity card group. Anil received his Business Management from the University of Lethbridge and his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.