Mr. Sherry is head of Innovative Solutions Inc., a consulting firm providing the real estate industry expert assistance in navigating the changing business environment in which we all work. Jim has been active in the real estate industry for over twenty years beginning when he directed PRC Realty Systems marketing and sales division. He subsequently had his own real estate industry consulting firm, was President of Realtron Corporation, the third largest MLS services market-share holder and after negotiating the sale of Realtron and consolidation with PRC, was President and CEO of Interealty, the nations largest MLS services vendor.

At Interealty Jim established technology and product initiatives to take the company into the twenty-first century. The company moved to Internet based MLS products that took advantage of the evolving mapping and demographic information systems, contracted for a nationwide telecommunications network to efficiently deliver the new products, created and hosted the largest real estate franchise site on the web, and introduced a unique content rich Internet real estate portal.

Jim is a widely known and respected real estate industry personality. As an industry visionary he is a sought after speaker and presenter on all aspects of the industry. He consistently delivers accurate and insightful presentations on the mega changes occurring in the residential real estate environment and how today’s industry participants can re-engineer themselves to insure survival and success in the future.

As Chief Economist of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and throughout his professional career, John Tuccillo has brought to the economic, trade association and public policy communities a commitment to making strategic planning, demographics and statistical tools understandable, accessible, and usable by a variety of businesses, government regulators, and other policymakers. His experience covers all aspects of business and association research and planning and organizational analysis, as well as experience and understanding of global and specific foreign national markets. His writings - - books, articles and commentaries - - and public presentations are invariably witty, interesting and carefully targeted to the needs of particular audiences. Dr. Tuccillo has over 25 years experience in academia, government, research and trade associations.

His work with Tecker Consultants has involved Strategic Planning and Leadership Development. Representative clients include:

National Association of Realtors
Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Ohio State Medical Association
American Public Communications Council
Paperboard Packaging Council
Wisconsin Realtors Association
Florida Association of Realtors
American Sheep Industries
Tucson Association of Realtors

Trained at Georgetown and Cornell Universities, he was part of the team that established a capacity for housing finance at the U.S. Department of HUD, served with World Bank and US AID teams surveying the housing sectors of developing countries, led the housing and community development analysis unit of the Urban Institute, and has been a trade association executive for more than 13 years, serving as chief economist for the National Council of Savings Institutions (now America’s Community bankers) and the National Association of Realtors. His analyses of both real estate markets and the general economy appear in a variety of newspapers, broadcast programs and specialty publications. He is the author of numerous articles and books on housing, mortgage finance, and industry market trends.

Dr. Tuccillo has appeared before hundreds of professional audiences and is a regular guest lecturer at the Washington Campus and the National school of Banking at Fairfield, CT, as well as universities around the country. In 1992 he served as president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. In 1995 he received the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives, and in 1997 was chosen as an ASAE Fellow.

Bob Boyd is a consultant with Innovative Solutions, Inc. He has broad professional experience in the real estate industry, and the application of technology to that business, having been a Realtor, consultant or MLS computer services vendor executive since 1972.

Mr. Boyd has been President and CEO of Diversicom Timesharing Inc., a real estate industry consultant, Vice President of Online Sales for MultiList McGraw-Hill, Executive Vice President of Realtron Corporation, the third largest MLS systems provider, and served in various roles as a Director on the Interealty Corp Marketing and Enterprise Development team. He most recently directed the development of an Advertising Management system for electronically interfacing residential real estate companies to newspaper classified advertising systems. He was Interealty’s representative on the Newspaper Association of America Classified Advertising Standards Task Force.

An engineer working in the defense industry, Bob became a Realtor in 1972 and immediately became entranced with the many possibilities to apply newly evolving computer and communications technology to the real estate sale process. In 1974 he and his partners started a software company that created and marketed an MLS online service product and a real estate escrow processing system.

During the past 12 years he has delivered technology based business solutions to hundreds of MLS organizations and real estate companies while in management positions with Geac/Interealty, Hillside Software as well as Moore Data Management Services. He has extensive experience in implementing, testing and evaluating Internet browser-based MLS systems and hand held Palm Pilot/Microsoft WindowsCE PDA's.

Mr. Austin's career spans over thirty-five years in the Information Technology industry, beginning with programming and analysis, moving up to sales, sales management, marketing and upper management. Networking systems for the mainframe arena occupied the bulk of Mr. Austin's tenure with the NCR Corporation. Selling communications processors for IBM large systems, his customers' networks were among the largest in the world. AT&T, Bellsouth, Martin Marietta, Boeing and Equifax are typical of the clients he served.

The early, technical years included work on software development projects involving mass storage random access devices, and electronic message switching automation for the Department of Defense, before it was called e-mail. He gained knowledge of wireless data communications selling mobile digital terminal systems. A recent yearlong consulting assignment involved devising an internet/e-commerce strategy and business plan for a small specialty software firm.

Since the early 1980's, Mr. Austin has also been involved in the real estate firm run primarily by his wife Mary Austin. While she has maintained a broker's license in both Georgia and Kentucky, Mr. Austin has served as president of Ecton Realty, Inc. Ecton Realty, over this span of years, has done new home sales, multi-family rehab and management, new home construction and sales, commercial property search, and commercial development and construction. Most recently, since moving to Louisville, Kentucky, in the early 1990's, Mr. Austin has done property-related consulting and market research, for investors.