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Brian Hershkowitz is Chief Executive Officer of RE Tech Advisory, and brings over 35 years of senior executive management experience to his clientele. In his current role, his firm provides services for firms across the globe – analyzing, planning, and executing needed strategy. Brian has recently been a member of AppFolio’s Executive Team, leading Corporate Development and Strategy for the organization. This allowed for very deep immersion in the PropTech industry – products, customer needs and segmentation, competition, and the vast ecosystem of technology, service, and FinTech providers who interact. Brian keeps very active in this arena, and is considered the leading expert in the space. For the decade prior to AppFolio, Brian served as the founder of Maximum Value Group, a boutique advisory firm. Under his leadership, his firm provided shadow CEO, investor best execution, and merger and acquisition advisory services. He has personally consulted in these endeavors across a broad range of industries and firm sizes, in the US and abroad. Warburg Pincus and Apax Global were major PE firms for which he was on retainer, with the customer base extending to buyers and sellers of companies of all sizes. Previously, Brian served as President of Fidelity Information Services, an S&P 500 company. The customer base for FIS included mortgage lenders, Realtors, property and casualty insurers, and banks of all sizes. Mr. Hershkowitz led the firm to extensive growth – from a pink sheet entity trading below $1 per share to a part of the nation’s leading index. This was attained through organic growth and accretion (through 24 acquisitions). In addition to taking synergies and combining customer, product, and organizational assets, he developed the company’s international outsourcing business lines, created and monetized its data assets in an analytics division, and helped instill the firm as the top provider in all its market spaces. Mr. Hershkowitz’ has been a long term leader in the mortgage banking and related industries. His previous positions included serving as President and COO of LandSafe,, a leading settlement service provider and subsidiary of Countrywide, and a decade serving Countrywide in the areas of strategic planning and executive management. Earlier in his career, he was a Director at the Mortgage Bankers Association, where he worked with all areas of mortgage banking to promote an industry-wide, comprehensive understanding of the mort- gage business, its flow of funds and the need for strategic planning. Hershkowitz also founded the associa- tion’s technology committee and conferences and its practice of supporting industry needs through technology and education. Mr. Hershkowitz is a graduate of St. John’s College, in Annapolis, Maryland; and has done additional post- graduate work at the University of Maryland. He is a regular attendee at Stanford University Law School’s Directors College and received specialized training in a NYSE sponsored/ISS certified program at Columbia University for Audit Committee members. Mr. Hershkowitz has also had training in the UK (Financial Times Non-Executive Director Programme) and Japan (BDTI Japan Certification), where he has served firms at a variety of capitalization levels. Mr. Hershkowitz is also a listed Director in India. During his tenure as the Board Director of Covansys, a NYSE traded firm, Mr. Hershkowitz was appointed to lead a Special Committee to explore and advise on the acquisition by another public firm, experience that has been invaluable to him and his practice. Brian Hershkowitz has served on several private boards, including USAA Real Estate Company/United Lender Services. Mr. Hershkowitz is very active in the outdoors. He is a regular participant in the Professional Pickleball Association tournaments, and enjoys the strategy and physical aspects of the game in equal measure.