Mar 04 2008
Meet the Management Team
Kathryn Bovard, Sahara Branch Manager
Kathryn manages and leads over 400 agents in one of the top 10 producing real estate offices nationwide for the Prudential Real Estate Affiliates network. She enjoys coaching real estate agents in business and real estate systems, increasing productivity, exit strategy and team building. Kathryn has over 20 years experience in the Las Vegas real estate industry including top-producing sales, management and owning her own brokerage firm. She is currently licensed to teach Continuing Education classes through the Nevada Real Estate Commission in Broker Managment, Real Estate Blogging, Contracts, Agency and Ethics/Law. Kathryn is also a yoga instructor at Yoga Santuary, one of the city’s top yoga studio for over 5 years. Visit her blog - Zen Real Estate in Las Vegas.
Jan O’Brien, General Manager/Green Valley Branch Manager
Jan O’Brien is Prudential Americana’s General Manager and the Broker-Manager of our Green Valley branch which is home to over 300 licensed agents, assistants and staff. She has over 24 years of leadership, training, business and coaching experience. She was born in Boston, MA the eldest of five children and moved to Atlanta, GA at the age of 10. After graduating from the University of Georgia with a B.S. degree in Education, Jan served 8 years in the U.S. Army as an officer and Blackhawk helicopter pilot. In November 1992, she joined Prudential Americana Group, REALTORS in Las Vegas as a real estate salesperson and soon thereafter joined the leadership team as a sales manager and later as a Broker Manager of a branch office of over 200 licensees. As Director of VIP Services and later Strategic Growth for Prudential Americana, Jan facilitated the development and implementation of a leadership and team building model to support the company’s business to business culture. Since 2005, she has coached more than 75 top producing sales executives and teams to establish and use effective business and real estate systems. Jan is a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy and Time Line Therapy. She is also an approved instructor for the Nevada Real Estate Commission for a series of real estate training classes, real estate blogging, and broker management. Visit her blog - Jan O’Brien - Real Estate Coach .
Walt Knoblock, Northwest Branch Manager
Walt manages the newest Prudential Americana Group location - the beautiful Northwest Office at the US-95 Freeway and Ann Road. Walt was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. After high school, he joined the U.S. Air Force as a communications intercept analyst, living for 11 years in Europe. After retiring from the military, Walt decided to settle in Las Vegas. He obtained his real estate license in 1980, and joined the Americana Group. After several years of real estate sales, he joined Jack Matthews & Co, as an Office Sales Manager. Walt subsequently returned to the Americana Group, because as he states, “I realized that there is absolutely no substitute for being with the best!” He was a Sales Manager at several Americana Group offices prior to his appointment as Manager of the new Northwest Office. With over 28 years of real estate management and sales experience, training and personal coaching has always been in his blood. Walt has written and taught numerous real estate courses for Americana Group, including “Personal Marketing and Branding”, “Listing Presentation and Servicing the Listing”, “Land Descriptions” and “Working with FSBOs and Expireds”. He holds the CRS and GRI designations, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® and the Nevada Association of REALTORS®, and has served as Chairman of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS).
Janet Carpenter, Summerlin Branch Manager
Janet joined Americana Group in 1983. She was born in San Diego, CA as a Navy “Brat” and attended 13 different schools in 12 years. After graduating from the University of Texas with a degree in Education, she spent the next 6 years teaching first grade in Texas. Janet also worked as a social worker and employment counselor in the WIN Program in Alaska before moving to Las Vegas with her Air Force spouse. With the constantly changing real estate environment, Janet believes an informed agent is a productive agent. For that reason, the weekly sales meetings are informative with timely sales training. The office also has a weekly car tour. Janet has an excellent ‘Open Door’ Policy extended to all her agents and gladly provides one-on-one training to all her agents. Janet also is a member of GLVAR’s Grievance Committee and keeps her agents informed on ethics issues within the realtor community. Janet is also licensed with the Nevada Real Estate Commission to teach Post Licensing Training.
Aldo Martinez, Southwest Branch Manager
Aldo, a 39 year resident of the greater Las Vegas area, would almost qualify as a native except he was made in Cuba and assembled in Nevada. He has lived in Green Valley most all his life, except for a military hiatus of 22 years, where he served in the US Army and retired as a Sergeant Major. He attended school here as well at Basic High School where he would have graduated if it weren’t for that expulsion thing. Sheds some light into why he joined the military, it was either that or jail. (Just kidding) However, he has bounced back from those memorable days and received his Associates degree from Vincennes University. Aldo began his real estate career here in Las Vegas in 1993, with American Group Better Homes and Garden and is now the Managing Broker of Prudential Americana Groups Southwest Branch. Aldo currently over see’s 240 plus agents at the Southwest Branch and serves on the Faculty at The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors ® (GLVAR). He is a graduate of the Instructor Training Institute and holds the ITI, GRI , ABR and the ABRM Designations.
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