Strong leadership is essential to delivering a distinguished product or service of lasting value. Our 50-year agreement with Meredith to lead the Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate brand compels us to build an organization that will count on strong leaders for generations to come.
As we pursue our mission of making real estate entrepreneurs more successful and providing consumers with an exceptional real estate experience, we place a particular premium on building a leadership team that maintains a focus on the following critical values :
Vision — for seeing over the horizon to prepare for the next opportunityInnovation — to creatively integrate and fashion a broad array of business tools into performance-based resultsCommitment — to be the best, stay sharp, and continually improve oneself
Like you, our leaders are also passionate to work in a profession that empowers individuals and families to bridge the gap between dreaming and doing, thereby raising the quality of life in communities around the world.
Below are links to profiles of some of the key executives of the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC organization.
Sherry A. Chris
Sherry Chris was appointed President and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC in October of 2007. Her appointment followed Realogy's announcement that it had entered into a 50-year agreement with Meredith Corporation to license the Better Homes and Gardens® name to launch a new and dynamic global residential real estate brand.
Sherry was most recently Chief Operating Officer for Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Overall, Sherry has more than 27 years of real estate experience, including, significant senior management positions in the areas of sales and marketing and new technologies, and franchise management. A native Canadian, she began her real estate career in Canada and held increasingly senior positions with Royal LePage for 16 years before taking on executive roles with Real Living (Ohio) and Prudential CA/NV/TX Realty. She joined Realogy in 2006.
Well known within the real estate industry, Sherry is a frequent speaker at real estate and technology conferences. She serves on Zillow's broker advisory board and has served on a number of industry- and technology- related advisory boards, including Trulia and Google Real Estate. She is a past chairman of The Realty Alliance. Sherry is a graduate of The University of Western Ontario, and earned an MBA from the Ivey School of Business. View Profile
Camilla Sullivan Marketing
Camilla Sullivan serves on the brand’s executive leadership team as senior vice president of marketing. In this role, Sullivan leads the strategic marketing and communications teams and supports the company’s strategy for market share growth both domestically and internationally by developing and implementing programs for interactive marketing, national advertising, and membership development.
Sullivan was most recently a principal at Mansfield Communications, serving as the marketing lead for the Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate brand’s redesign and rollout for its July 2008 launch. She has 15 years of global marketing and communications experience working with Fortune 500 companies
Prior to joining Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC, Sullivan served as the director of global marketing at BearingPoint, and held marketing leadership roles with EDS, both in the U.S. and Australia, as well as senior roles at Toshiba and Compaq.
Sullivan earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a master’s in commerce from the University New South Wales, Australia. Sullivan has also completed executive development programs at Yale University and New York University Stern School of Business, and was a regular guest lecturer on marketing and branding at the Yale School of Management. View Profile
Wendy Forsythe
Wendy Forsythe was appointed Vice President of Broker Services and Product Development for Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC in October of 2007 and leads the teams responsible for providing products, tools and services to the Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate network.
Wendy was most recently Vice President of Sales Services for Canadian-based Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., where she developed and managed an extensive suite of productivity tools. She is an accomplished real estate executive with more than 15 years of industry experience, having received her real estate license during college. Wendy’s talents for building and developing products and services are deeply rooted in her own experiences as an agent, manager, broker, owner and brand executive. In 1994, she purchased a brokerage franchise in Nova Scotia, Canada, and at that time was the youngest licensed real estate broker in the province’s history.
Wendy graduated from Acadia University with a Bachelor in Business Administration. She now divides her time between homes in both Toronto, Canada, and Morristown, New Jersey. View Profile
Kim Toomey
Kim Toomey was appointed Vice President and General Counsel of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC in December of 2007. In this role, Kim is responsible for all legal functions within the Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate brand, including the provision of legal counsel to the company, drafting and negotiating franchise agreements and vendor contracts.
Prior to joining Realogy, Kim was a franchise litigator and transactional attorney for more than 10 years. In her practice, Kim represented franchisors in both litigation and contract negotiations and prepared clients’ federally-mandated franchise disclosure documents. She has extensive experience in franchise regulatory issues, general franchise litigation and contract matters.
Kim received her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law and her B.A. from LaSalle University in Philadelphia. She served as a Topics and Articles Editor and an Associate Editor of the American Bar Association’s (ABA)’s Franchise Law Journal from 2004 through 2007 and has given presentations at the ABA Forum on Franchising.
Kim resides in Fanwood, New Jersey.
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