Authors List

Authors

  • Ben Lalez is president of the Ben Lalez Team with Compass, a licensed real estate broker with a principal office in Chicago. Lalez started his real estate career flipping houses in Chicago’s up-and-coming West Side neighborhoods in 2010. He has since taken his construction background and leveraged it to help people with all real estate needs. Now he leads one of the biggest real estate teams in Chicago, with more than 25 agents and 300-plus transactions in 2022 alone. Reach Lalez at (312) 789-4054.

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  • Michael Sarracini is CEO of Keyspire and chairman of The Sarracini Group. He focuses on adding value to people through personal development and education, and in adding value to land through strategic partnerships and development. His team has trained thousands of real estate investors, helping them to generate millions of dollars in net worth. As an entrepreneur, he has won multiple awards for business growth, sales revenue and employee satisfaction. Reach Sarracini at (888) 556-2244.

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  • Laura Adams

    Laura Adams is the senior real estate analyst at Aceable, a digital education platform that exists to provide unparalleled and accredited training and tools. For more than a decade, Aceable has been replacing tired formats with delightful and convenient licensing courses, empowering people to build the life they want through innovative real estate education. Adams is an award-winning financial author, podcaster and spokesperson, as well as a frequent media source who’s been featured on major news outlets. Reach Adams at laura@lauradadams.com or (302) 364-0308.

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  • Miki Adams is the president of CBC Mortgage Agency, a nationally chartered housing finance agency and a leading source of downpayment assistance for first-time homebuyers. She joined the Cedar City, Utah-based company in November 2016 as executive vice president and was promoted to president in January 2021. She has 30 years of mortgage lending experience and has managed companies through calm and tumultuous markets. Her background includes credit and collateral underwriting, secondary marketing and portfolio asset management, regulatory compliance, and regulatory audit and examination management.

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  • Ed Adams

    Ed Adams is senior vice president of retail at Mountain West Financial Inc. He brings 33 years of retail mortgage lending experience to his position. During his extensive career in mortgage banking, Adams has managed a wide variety of production and support functions — including sales, training, appraisals and underwriting — for well-known financial institutions. In his current role, Adams directs the company’s retail mortgage lending efforts across its existing footprint and expands it into new areas of opportunity.

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  • Erin Addesso

    Erin Addesso, CEO and founder of Triple Threat Success Coaching and Marketing, is a speaker, coach and consultant with the mortgage industry and their real estate partners. She helps companies develop powerful relationships and presence, resulting in more closings, referrals and profits while allowing more time to enjoy life.

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  • Scott Agnew is operating principal at Keller Williams Realty. He has dedicated his life to helping leaders discover their greatest inner potential. He’s an author of the newly released book, “Long-Term Leader,” and his passion is to leverage personal leadership dynamics to make a positive impact on the people around him. The owner of multiple businesses, including several Keller Williams locations, Agnew consistently ranks among the top 500 real estate brokers in the U.S. as verified by RealTrends.

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  • Delfino Aguilar serves as chief production officer — third-party originations at Kind Lending. With a remarkable career spanning over two decades, Aguilar has established himself as a true leader, driving growth and enhancing customer retention. Aguilar’s commitment to excellence is evident in his track record of consistently exceeding sales targets and fostering strong client relationships. He possesses a unique ability to inspire and motivate his team, cultivating a culture of collaboration and high performance.

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  • Jim Albertelli

    Jim Albertelli is the CEO of Voxtur, a technology company that is creating a more transparent and accessible real estate lending ecosystem. Albertelli is redefining standards across the lending lifecycle by using targeted data analytics to simplify tax solutions, property valuations and settlement services for investors, lenders, government agencies and servicers. 

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  • Jesse Allen

    Jesse Allen is the executive vice president of alternative distribution at AAG. In this role, Allen is accountable for vision, strategy and execution for the company’s national field sales and wholesale mortgage originations business. Allen has 30 years of experience in financial services across mortgage, consumer and business banking. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pace University in New York, graduating summa cum laude. 

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  • Ben Allison is finance officer at Incenter, a family of companies that create and deploy innovative solutions for optimizing business performance in the mortgage and specialty-finance industries. He also is chief financial officer of Boston National Title Agency, an Incenter company. He has 20 years of experience in finance and accounting, and he holds a master’s in business administration from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. 

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  • Al Alper is CEO of Absolute Logic, Inc. (www.absolutelogic.com) and CyberGuard360 (www.cyberguard360.com). Since 1991, Absolute Logic has been providing Fortune 500-style technical support, security services and technology consulting to businesses of up to 250 employees within Connecticut and New York.

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