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	Who We Are Vacant Home Solutions, LLC Team and Bios
	Allen Brackett, CEO Destiny Brown, General Counsel Markus Leibundgut, CIO Phyllis Dillinger, CFO Edward Garcia, COO Ree Cole, National Sales Director Sandra J. Holmes, National Staging Director Karen Clark, Director of Human Resources Philip Vias, Director of Tenant Management Services
	Allen Brackett, CEO Allen Bracket founded Dyna-Maids, Inc. while attending George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and in the ensuing 30 years he has grown it from that single location to multiple locations on the East Coast from South Florida to Boston. In recent years he extended the brand to include Dyna Handyman Services and now offers total home care services including home repair, renovation/construction, and moving services. These services are all managed by licensed General Contractors each having over 10 years’ experience in their local markets. With Dyna-Maids, Inc. Mr. Brackett removed the stigma associated with workers performing residential housekeeping and commercial janitorial services by redefining the roles men and women perform in the cleaning fields. First, he removed the gender bias associated with each respective industry by creating a workforce equally representing men and women and then creating a niche market by combining janitorial services and maid service into a unified commercial/residential housekeeping service with broad recognition for quality, consistency and integrity. Mr. Brackett’s slogan "When Someone’s in the Kitchen – It's Dyna!" caught the attention of the local press and then national media. Dyna-Maids, Inc. has been featured on major networks as a featured cleaning company during spring cleaning week, and the subsequent publicity helped propel Dyna-Maids, Inc. into many new markets. On the personnel side, his attention to and respect of ethnic and cultural diversity has opened the doors for Dyna-Maids, Inc. to work with a diverse group of nationalities, business groups, and physically/mentally challenged clients. He speaks Spanish and is fluent in sign language. Dyna-Maids, Inc. became the first in history to operate as a maid service operating under the chain of department stores in the mid-Atlantic region known as Woodward & Lothrop’s Department Stores. In 2000, Dyna-Maids, Inc. began working with a long term health care programs in New York City and now works regularly with partner organizations such as Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Distrophy, Aphasia, Senior Health Partners, and numerous others. For these organizations, Dyna’s Handyman Construction Services currently prides itself on being "Accessibility Experts for the Disabled". Mr. Brackett also sits on the Board of the Coalition for the Disabled in Washington, D.C. (top)
	Markus Leibundgut, CIO Markus Leibundgut began his career in Switzerland as an Electrical Engineer designing highly complex integrated circuits for Mettler-Toledo, the global leader in scientific weight measurement and instrumentation. Markus quickly took leadership of the firm’s European Engineering Technology management. Mettler-Toledo sponsored him for his MBA at New York University and assigned him to various senior Operations, Marketing, and Technology Management positions within the company. In 2000 Markus joined Thermo-Electron to support the company in its integration of several hundred businesses into one integrated operating company with now close to $8 billion in annual revenue. He built Thermo’s global web systems, Intranet, a global lead management system supporting over 3,000 sales professionals, a data warehouse application and most other e-Business systems that were instrumental to the company’s successful growth. During this time he managed a team of over 24 in-house programmers and consultants plus multiple off-shore development teams. In 2005 he started his own business supporting both startups and established companies as a consulting CTO in areas like social networking, luxury on-line retail, wealth management, hospitality technology, Internet advertising and other areas to define, implement and improve their technology. He has been a strong advocate of open source technology to rapidly provide the best and most efficient technology solutions to his clients. Markus has an MBA with distinction from New York University and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. (top)
	Phyllis Dillinger, CFO Ms. Dillinger brings financial management experience from KPL Inc, a manufacturer and distributor of antibodies and reagents to the life science research community, where she is also an Executive Vice President. During her 13 years with KPL, Ms. Dillinger completed a divestiture, spun off a separate genomics business and most recently relocated the organization to a 30,000 square foot state of the art facility. Prior to joining KPL, she was C.F.O. of Sopha Medical, a French-held U.S. subsidiary manufacturing gamma cameras. During her stay at Sopha, sales grew from $1M to $42M. She completed an $85M dollar merger between Sopha Medical and Summit Vision and relocated the new organization to Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Dillinger is a member of the board of directors of Women in Bio, a national organization of women executives with interest in science and entrepreneurship, and Lyden Consulting which provided services to the Department of Justice and several components of the Department of Homeland Security. She has also served on the board of Capital Genomix. Ms. Dillinger holds an M.B.A. from The George Washington University. (top)
	Edward Garcia, COO While Attending SUNY College of New York, Mr. Garcia started his career in sales. Over the next 20 years, he moved into customer service, and before working with Vacant Home Solutions, was in management. He has extensive training in all aspects of customer relations for both one on one service and strategic business relationships with companies. Mr. Garcia has 15 years experience supervising staff and providing direct client services. He has trained staff members to respond to customer needs in a timely manner with an emphasis on demonstrating a positive attitude with good communication skills. He has also trained, supervised, and motivated his staff as required. He has worked in facilities maintenance and eventually trained others to replace him as he advanced. Mr. Garcia brings to the VHS family of companies the ability to help and manage the technology that tracks vendor relationships and inventory maintenance issues. He works with the VHS IT department to set up and maintain all organizational flow charts related to vendor protocols that involve construction on properties in the VHS network He has helped set up policy and procedures for companies such as Marsh and Mclennan, Safeguard Self Storage, Metro Fuel Oil Corp. and T-Mobile. Among his functions in various companies he was responsible for daily deposits, cash recapturing, and petty cash reconciliations. He has extensive working knowledge with customer complaints regarding discrepancies and appropriate credits post investigation. Mr. Garcia has maintained and serviced a client base of over 60 national accounts at any given time and was responsible for the execution and issuance of various surety bonds. These included sequestration bonds along with renewals, cancellations, and continuation certificates. He also worked closely with insurance brokers regarding any customer requests to make changes in standard bond formats.(top)
	Ree Cole CIPS, GRI, E-PRO, TRC, Eco-Broker National Sales Director Ms. Cole’s sales experience includes sixteen years of sales management development with a consistent record of growth, including marketing, promotions, advertising, training, recruiting, logo development, writing articles, developing media presentations and press releases, analyzing market trends, and determining goals for sales staff. During this time, she has earned many professional titles, including the GRI designation, Fast Track Leadership, Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Licensed Mortgage Broker, Florida, CIPS designation - Certified International Property Specialist, E-Pro designation – Internet Marketing Specialist, TRC designation – Transnational Referral Certified., Eco-Broker designation. In 2007, she became President, Women’s Council of Realtors, Ft. Lauderdale Chapter, in 2008 became the District IV Vice President, Women’s Council of Realtors, and in 2009 became District II Vice President, Women’s Council of Realtors in Florida. Ms. Cole also holds the Association of Realtors Director, FAR Honor Society, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Director, and is a Member of the Broward County Master Brokers Forum. Currently, Ms. Cole specializes in high end luxury Homes and Condominiums, Waterfront or South Florida Beach area, and her company, Skywater Estates, Inc., has been featured in articles in the SunSentinel, Rotor and Wing Magazine, WCR National, National Association of Realtors monthly magazine as well as the Florida Association of Realtors Magazine. Skywater Estates is a division of the Skywater Group which includes the Jet and Yacht division.(top)
	Sandra J. Holmes, National Staging Director Sandra was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. She has raised two beautiful daughters. She has resided in South Florida for the past 20 years. Her background is in Sales, Real Estate, and Home Staging. Sandra worked as a Sales Manager for Cellular One and then AT&T Wireless Services for several years. She was recognized as the TOP Sales Manager and Top Sales for 3 consecutive years. She led a sales team of 20+ people. After leaving the wireless industry, Sandra became a Realtor® and worked with Coldwell Banker. She loves the real estate business and noticed that many homes that were on the market would never sell because of the way that they showed to potential buyers. Sandra then became certified through Stagedhomes.com and became a Master Accredited Staging Professional™ She had personally staged over $250 million dollars in real estate. Her statistics have proven that staged homes sell in 34 days or less. Sandra is the President and Chief Home Stylist of Home Staging Concepts located in Hollywood, Florida. She has a team of Accredited Staging Professionals that work with her and services home sellers, banks, and asset management companies throughout South Florida. Home Staging Concepts has been in business for five years. Sandra serves as President of the International Association of Home Staging Professionals South Florida Chapter. She founded the chapter many years ago and has seen it grow to become a success. She also resides on the Board of Directors of IAHSP™as Director of Fundraising and Secretary for the past two years. Sandra and Home Staging Concepts have affiliate memberships at the local Boards of Realtor® Associations. She continues to educate agents in South Florida on preparing properties for sale. She is very active in the community. Sandra is on the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement Professional Connection of South Florida. She is also a member of the Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce and Broward Alliance. She gives much of her free time back to charities including Children’s Home Society, Ronald McDonald House, and Women in Distress to name a few. Sandra is also Live Green/Live Smart Certified and recently became SFR Certified through National Association of Realtors®. She continues her education in real estate to keep up with the trends of today’s market. (top)
	Karen Clark, Director of Human Resources In the 1983 Ms. Clark started her career in the entertainment industry as a Production Manager, Road Manager, Booking Agent and General Manager. She traveled throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and New Zealand on productions for: Tina Turner, Prince, Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, The Winans, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, NJ Ballet, Opera Music Theater Institute, and Newark Symphony Hall. Ms Clark has managed internal staffs of up to 100 people at any given time. In addition she negotiated contracts, coordinated schedules, and managed the overall aspects of finances related to productions that included processing payroll, inventory control on merchandise sales, internal conrols for box office statements and settlements. Ms. Clark coordinated advertising events for print and radio with press releases for all productions. She has played a key role in the development of new marketing and sales procedures to enhance sales for a number of production companies. In the mid 1990’s Ms. Clark assisted in the development of an Internet-based, business-to-business e-commerce company. Internet Commerce Corporation reached a market cap of $1 billion. ICC developed electronic data interchange systems. Ms.Clark intially worked as an Office Manager and over the next decade held positions of Corporate Communications Manager, Public Relations Manager, Director of Marketing, and ultimate achieved the position Assistant Vice-President. Ms. Clark’s responsibilities included negotiating company contracts for internal operations that included office space, telecommunications, and human resources. She was responsible for the development and design of the Company’s marketing and web site initiatives, spearheaded advertising and public relations channels, and managed marketing and customer services rollout staff of 20 people. (top)
	Philip Vias, Director of Tenant Management Services PL, CIPS, GRI, e-PRO, TRC, AHWD, SFR Phillip was born in Chicago, IL he has been living and working in the Ft; Lauderdale area for over 25 years. He is a Graduate of the Realtor Institute and Dale Carnegie Sales Class/Course. Phillip is a dedicated, full time real estate professional who is experienced, knowledgeable and focused on service. In 2000 Phillip became involved Phillip with Emergency Management in different capacities including being deployed by the FL Dept. of Community Affairs, Division of Emergency Management during the 2004 Hurricane Season for 3 months as a Disaster Recovery Center Manager. He is also trained as a Red Cross hurricane shelter manager. Trainer for the FEMA Community Emergency Response Team program and served on the City of Deerfield Beach CERT Advisory Council for five years. 2011 he was appointed to serve on the FL Bar Seventeenth Circuit District Grievance Committee. He is a licensed Amateur Radio Operator (a/k/a "Ham"-now it's official) by the FCC. Disaster Preparation/Survival Presenter since 2005 a/k/a Hurricane Phillippe Emergency Management experience: Starting 2000-2004 Phillip Served on City of Deerfield Beach Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Advisory Council and from 2003-2007--FL Dept. of Community Affairs, Division of Emergency Management Disaster Reservist Team 2004 He was Deployed by the same agency for one month in Daytona Beach after Hurricane Charles, one month in Vero Beach after Hurricanes Frances & Jeanne & one month in Jupiter as a Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) manager. 2005-Present--Trained by American Red Cross to manage a Disaster Shelter 2005 Deployed by Red Cross as assistant to Shelter Manager after Hurricane Wilma (Broward County Phillips Achievements and Affiliations: Exceptional Properties Specialist Realtor Association Honor Society Member Broker/Associate Former Licensed Mortgage Broker Licensed Community Association Manager Member Local, State and National Association of Realtors Certified Relocation Specialist 2011 RAGFL Global Real Estate Council Chairman 2011 Board Member, FL Realtors Assn. The Florida Bar, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Grievance Committee Member Licensed C.A.M. (top)