Greg Hanson - Senior Vice President and General Manager
Greg Hanson serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of RealEstate.com and Tree.com and is responsible for leading growth and innovation in all segments of RealEstate.com. Mr. Hanson was previously the Vice President of Product Management at RealEstate.com.
Before joining RealEstate.com, Mr. Hanson was CEO of GuildQuality, a company specializing in performance benchmarking for home builders. Prior to this, Mr. Hanson served as chairman and CEO for Bullhorn, the leading on-demand solution for staffing companies. At Bullhorn, Mr. Hanson led the company through a turnaround period from pre-revenue development to cash-flow-positive operations, while also serving as the principal product architect.
Mr. Hanson has a bachelor's of arts degree in physics from Middlebury College, and obtained dual master's degrees in architecture and structural engineering from the University of Michigan.
Victor Vaca - National Vice President of Sales, RealEstate.com
Victor Vaca is the National Vice President of Sales for RealEstate.com. In his role, Mr. Vaca leads all sales efforts nationally as well as brokerage recruiting and agent training operations. Mr. Vaca was previously the Vice President of Sales for the company brokerage, RealEstate.com, REALTORS®
Mr. Vaca joined the Realestate.com team in 2006 as the national vice president of agent development and recruiting and was promoted to national vice president of sales. In these positions, Mr. Vaca was instrumental in launching the company into 20 new markets, he created a state-of-the-art online training platform that taught agents how to work with today's online customer, and he designed a centralized recruiting platform that was responsible for finding and hiring more than 1300 experienced sales associates.
Prior to RealEstate.com, Mr. Vaca was regional director of professional development, Carolina's Region with Coldwell Banker United, Realtors, the number one Coldwell Banker franchise in the United States. In this position, he led and developed all training and recruiting initiatives for 15 offices and over 600 sales associates across North and South Carolina. He also served as vice president of sales for the Charlotte, N.C. Ballantyne office where he led nearly 100 sales associates to a tremendous turnaround in production and profit in 2005.
Mr. Vaca has a bachelor's of science in applied psychology from Loyola University of Chicago. He also completed requisite course work in accounting and economics towards his MBA.
Kamelia Dianati - Vice President, Technology
Kamelia Dianati is the vice president of technology for RealEstate.com where she is responsible for all facets of the company's technology supporting multiple verticals that include a national company owned brokerage, a network of brokers, the RealEstate.com portal and a listing platform with over 2 million home listings.
Prior to her current role, Ms. Dianati was a lead developer and architect for LendingTree, LLC, RealEstate.com's parent company. In this capacity she led a highly integrated computer telephony project that decreased customer call return to less than 30 seconds. As one of the original members of the architectural group, her responsibilities included providing initial sizing, architectural guidance and design leadership on large technology related initiatives. In this role, Ms. Dianati's expertise helped lead several key technology projects such as the design, development, and deployment of a borrower-facing portal (Borrower Web) and also led the roll-out and on-going enhancements for the company's automated decision engine (ADE).
Prior to LendingTree, Ms. Dianati was a consultant and software engineer at several large organizations where, among several other projects, she deployed enterprise-wide, web based applications for call centers and medical companies.
Ms. Dianati has a bachelor's of science degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she was a Cum Laude graduate. Her thesis concentrated on the development of a software-testing tool for digital circuits, including a custom database, using UNIX operating system and C programming language.
Rick Finch - Vice President, Marketing
Rick Finch is the vice president of marketing for RealEstate.com and related properties and products including iNest and Domania. In this role, Mr. Finch is responsible for driving efforts such as brand management, business development, channel marketing, lead generation and retail marketing.
Mr. Finch joined RealEstate.com in 2006 where he led the online marketing group, inside sales center, and business technology functions for the company's real estate brokerage operations, RealEstate.com, REALTORS®. Prior to joining the team, Mr. Finch worked for LendingTree, RealEstate.com's parent company, on the GetSmart® team as brand manager with a focus on enhancing and developing the GetSmart marketing strategy. Mr. Finch joined the team shortly after LendingTree acquired GetSmart from Providian Financial Services, and from that time assumed responsibility for all aspects of online marketing.
Previously, Mr. Finch was a vice president at Bank of America, where he focused on direct marketing for consumer credit cards and related consumer products. He cut his teeth in financial services at Total System Services, Inc. where he supported its largest transactional client in a variety of roles that incorporated his analytical, creative and technical talents.
Mr. Finch has bachelor's degrees in sociology and applied computer science from Columbus State University.