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Finding business partners, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup
Tags:
consumer-choice real estate agents, resrch, rt brokerage services, the next generation of real estate services, time-accountable real estate transaction model
Schools:
University of California System - San Diego, University of Washington - Seattle
Louis Herrera is the Chairman of the Board & CEO/Designated Broker of RT Brokerage Services, Inc.
Louis brings fifteen years of venture-backed, high-technology startup experience and regional government growth management experience to RT Brokerage Services. Prior to RT Brokerage Services, he was the director of operations at m:metrics, a syndicated data service for the mobile sector, where Louis was responsible for finance, accounting, human resources, information technology, operations, and legal affairs. As part of the initial management team, Louis played an integral part of the company’s early success.
Louis was also formerly the director of operations at Nimble Technology, an XML data integration company, and at Appliant, Inc. a performance monitoring company— both venture-backed companies out of the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering Department.
Before his startup experiences, Louis was a growth management planner at the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC). At the PSRC, Louis’ worked focused on the Growth Management Act’s (GMA) certification and consistency requirements for local governments and real estate finance strategies in urban center developments.
Louis holds BA in urban studies and planning from the University of California, San Diego (Warren College).
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
RT Brokerage Services, Inc. Seattle, Washington (www.rtbrokerage.com)
Position:
CEO/Designated Broker
Time period:
October 2006 - December 2008
Description:
Launched a real estate brokerage offering clients time-accountable real estate transactions™ services. This innovated business model provides consumers with an alternative method to engage and compensate real estate agents, especially in high cost market areas, for selling and purchasing their homes; creates an efficient marketplace where consumers pay the true costs of their sale transactions based on work preformed; and assigns monetary value to an agent’s time by calculating payment for the service upon delivery. Developed marketing plan, collateral, sales plan and budgets. Designed and registered key trademark and branding elements. Currently building the operation policies and procedures for finance, human resources, facilities, recruiting, and eventually information technology that will allow the company to scale upon private equity financing.
Employer:
M:Metrics, Inc. Seattle, Washington (www.mmetrics.com)
Position:
Director of Operations
Time period:
January 2004 - August 2006
Employer:
Foundation Bank, Inc., Bellevue, Washington (www.foundationbank.com)
Position:
Systems Manager, Consultant
Time period:
January 2002 - December 2004
Employer:
Nimble Technology, Inc., Seattle, Washington (www.nimble.com)
Position:
Director of Operations
Time period:
January 1999 - December 2001
Employer:
Appliant, Inc., Seattle, Washington (www.appliant.com)
Position:
Director of Operations
Time period:
January 1997 - December 1999
Employer:
Puget Sound Regional Council – Seattle, Washington (www.psrc.org)
Co-founder and CEO of Snapvine.com. Expertise/Experience in consumer internet and mobile at such companies as Openwave and Starwave/Infoseek. MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management. BS, Computer Science University of Washington
RT Brokerage Services, Inc.
