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The Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® (SILVAR) 2024 leadership team was installed on February 1, 2024 at the Palo Alto Hills Golf & Country Club. 2024 California Association of REALTORS® President Melanie Barker administered the oath of office to 2024 SILVAR President Eileen Giorgi and to SILVAR’s 2024 officers and board directors.

2021 C.A.R. President Dave Walsh served as master of ceremonies. 2023 SILVAR President Jim Hamilton led the Pledge of Allegiance, and Ryan Iwanaga, co-founder and Chief Experience officer at Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno, delivered the Inspiration Message.

Giorgi, a REALTOR® with Christie’s International Sereno, has served as a board director, member of the Los Gatos-Saratoga district council, chair of the REALTOR® Service Volunteer Program (RSVP) that helps senior homeowners with household chores they can no longer do on their own, and as trustee and president of the Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation.

Joining Giorgi as lead officers are Tammie Peters, a REALTOR® with Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno, President-elect; and Jeff Bell, broker manager of Coldwell Banker Realty Cupertino, Treasurer.

SILVAR’s 2024 board directors are Jim Hamilton (Compass), Past President; Brett Caviness (Compass), Region 9 Chair; Denise Welsh (Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno), NAR Director; District Chairs Will McLennan (Yarkin Realty) – Menlo Park-Atherton, Alex Lewicki (DeLeon Realty) – Palo Alto, Katherine Frey (Katherine Frey Real Estate) – Los Altos-Mountain View, Sunita Merchia (Merchia Realty) – Cupertino-Sunnyvale, Navneet Parmar (Real Estate Experts) – Los Gatos-Saratoga; and Directors At-large Alan Barbic (Barbic Real Estate Group), Jimmy Kang (eXp Realty of California), Tracey McNeely (Compass), Stacey Woods (Compass) and Suzanne Yost (Compass).

The 2023 Recognition Awards were presented by 2023 SILVAR President Jim Hamilton and CEO Paul Cardus. Recognized for their outstanding contributions were Karen Trolan (Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno), 2023 REALTOR® of the Year; Creighton Galloway (o2 Mortgage), 2023 Affiliate of the Year: Jane Volpe (REALTOR®), Spirit of SILVAR award; and Joanne Fraser (Compass), President’s award.

Trolan was recognized for her longtime service to SILVAR as 2016 president, board director, C.A.R. director and MLSListings, along with her service to the community as soccer coach, at Girls on the Run, Sierra Region Ski Patrol, and REALTOR® safety instructor. “In so many ways she is the REALTOR® face in her community. Her determination and spirit inspires us, and in her own words, she can still do it,” said Hamilton.

Galloway was recognized for being “a hardworking, hands-on leader and a great proponent of our Association. In addition to engagement at SILVAR and community events, he provides mortgage services committed to ensuring a great experience for our REALTORS®.”

Volpe was praised for her spirit of volunteerism. Hamilton noted, “She works behind the scenes without accolades. She is one of those members that works outside the limelight, recognizing the services of others while never drawing attention to herself.”

Fraser was praised for all the work she continues to do for the association. She served as 2021 SILVAR president, was member of the SILVAR Charitable Foundation and Foundation president in 2009, served as region chair at C.A.R. and as CRS Northern California Chapter President. She was named Ambassador of the Year by the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce.
 
This year’s Installation Sponsors include MLSListings Inc., Los Gatos-Saratoga District, Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno, DeLeon Realty, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Los Altos-Mountain View District, Cupertino-Sunnyvale District, Menlo Park-Atherton District, Palo Alto District, Coldwell Banker Realty, Supra, TourFactory, Ty Karges Home, and The Junkluggers.

The 2012 leadership team of the Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS (SILVAR) was installed Jan. 12 at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga. California Association of REALTORS® (C.A.R.) treasurer Chris Kutzkey administered the oath of office to the association’s 2012 president Suzanne Yost and the board of directors.

The Silicon Valley Association of REALTORS® represents over 4,000 REALTORS® and affiliates engaged in the real estate business on the Peninsula and in the South Bay. SILVAR promotes the highest ethical standards of real estate practice, serves as an advocate for homeownership and homeowners, and represents the interests of property owners in Silicon Valley.

Yost is a broker associate with Alain Pinel Realtors, Los Gatos. Also on the leadership team are Carolyn Miller (RE/MAX Real Estate Services), president-elect, and Phyllis Carmichael (Coldwell Banker), treasurer.

In addition to the three lead officers, the following members sit on the 2012 board of directors: Gene Lentz (RE/MAX Distinctive Properties), past president; Jeff Bell (Coldwell Banker), Region 9 chair; Chris Isaacson (Coldwell Banker), Menlo Park/Atherton District chair; Cassie Maas (Luxor Real Estate Group), Los Gatos/Saratoga District chair; Niki Miller Maroko (RE/MAX Real Estate Services), Cupertino/Sunnyvale District chair; Jane Volpe (Midtown Realty), Palo Alto District chair; Denise Welsh (Intero Real Estate), Los Altos/Mountain View District chair; John Tripp (Foundation Trust), NAR director; David Barca (Alain Pinel Realtors), Bill Moody (Referral Realty), Bill Rehbock (Coldwell Banker), Bryan Robertson (Sereno Group), David Tonna (Alain Pinel Realtors), directors at-large; and Richard Miller (RateComb.com), affiliate chair.

A graduate of California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo and Santa Clara University School of Law, Yost was named REALTOR® of the Year in 2006 by the Santa Cruz Association of REALTORS®, Salesperson of the Year in 1982 by the San Luis Obispo Board of REALTORS®, and has served as director and chair of a number REALTOR® committees at the national and state level. She was SILVAR’s 2009 Professional Standards Committee chair, a 2010 board director, and 2011 co-chair of the Bay Area REALTOR® Leadership Academy. Yost is a Los Gatos resident.

The 2011 Appreciation Awards were presented to Julia Truesdale Keady (Alain Pinel Realtors), REALTOR® of the Year; Richard Miller (RateComb.com), Affiliate of the Year; Eileen Giorgi (Alain Pinel Realtors), Spirit of SILVAR; and SILVAR board attorney Dave Hamerslough (Rossi, Hamerslough, Reischl and Chuck) and Vickie Naidorf (legal counsel for Coldwell Banker), President’s Award.

As 2009 president, Keady spearheaded the Bay Area REALTOR® Leadership Academy, a leadership program designed to identify, train and develop existing and emerging leaders to serve and advance organized real estate. She was also recognized as 2011 C.A.R. Region 9 chair. Presenting the award, 2011 president Gene Lentz noted Keady “has performed in an exemplary fashion in every single committee or assignment that she has been given. They take huge effort and dedication.”

Affiliate of the Year Miller was recognized for “unequivocally embracing and adopting the principles, goals, and purposes of the association.”

As chair of the REALTOR® Service Volunteer Program (RSVP), a free REALTOR® service assisting senior homeowners with household tasks, Lentz said Giorgi, who also served as 2011 president of the Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation Trust, “personifies the essence of this award, through her hard work in making RSVP the success it is today.”

Lentz thanked Hamerslough and Naidorf for educating REALTORS® on legal issues and for their efforts in updating the association’s PRDS Forms purchase contract and creating the counties’ advisory.

 

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