Mark Choey "Everyone Has a Different Superhero" on Global Luxury Real Estate Mastermind with Michael Valdes Podcast #119

Mark Choey "Everyone Has a Different Superhero" on Global Luxury Real Estate Mastermind with Michael Valdes Podcast #119

Mark Choey, co-founder of Climb Real Estate and CEO of Highnote Labs, is a great industry leader who has built brands from the ground up several times. He built a successful boutique firm in Climb Realty and is now going back to his technology roots. He created Highnote Labs to focus on real estate technology deliverables. Mark truly cares about others' success and shares his wisdom and lessons with Michael in this podcast.

More About Mark Choey

Mark is founder of HighNote Labs, a software company dedicated to
providing innovative tools for the real estate brokerage industry. His
prior experience as top producing real estate agent, to team leader,
to brokerage founder, computer engineering, design, and product
management gives him unique insights into what makes for great
software for real estate.

Mark co-founded Climb Real Estate, a San Francisco Bay Area-based real
estate brokerage known for its innovative business model and
technology offerings. Mark led the business strategy and development
of CLIMB since its inception in 2007 as a sales group then later as an
independent brokerage in 2010 all the way to acquisition by NRT, the
nation's largest real estate brokerage in 2016. Today, CLIMB is
recognized among the top real estate brokerages in the San Francisco
Bay Area and nationally recognized as a leader in innovation,
marketing and technology. While at Climb, Mark also founded Climb Labs
(climblabs.com), the innovation arm of Climb Real Estate focused on
new ideas in the real estate brokerage space.

Mark also founded the original real estate blog focused on San
Francisco New Developments, SFnewdevelopments.com, and has been among
the top ranked agents in real estate.

More About Michael Valdes

Michael Valdes is the newly named executive vice president of International Expansion at eXp Realty. Previously Michael was the senior vice president of global servicing for Realogy Corporation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Valdes was Director of Private Banking at Deutsche Bank for just under a decade where he oversaw a book of business of just under $1 billion. He has the distinction of being the first Director in the United States of Latino descent. Mr. Valdes is the Chair of the AREAA Global Advisory Board and co-host of the 2020 AREAA Global Luxury Summit. He is also a current member of the NAHREP Corporate Board of Governors. Additonally, he is the Executive Chair of the ONE VOZ, Hispanic ERG for the firm. He is a former Board Member of Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach as well as the Shanti Organization in San Francisco. Michael was also a Board Member of Pink & Blue for 2, an organization started by Olivia Newton-John to promote breast and prostate cancer awareness.