Scott Hammack, Chairman
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 | Scott Hammack, Chairman of Leap Real Estate Systems is a proven entrepreneur. Mr. Hammack has created over $335 million in capitalization in the past 13 years through two ventures in health and technology, MasterChart, Inc. and Cyberguard Corporation (NASDAQ:CGFW) Mr. Hammack started MasterChart in the basement of his Illinois home in 1992 at the age of 26. MasterChart developed an electronic medical product, attracted $10 million in capital from Harris Corporation in1996, created several innovative software applications and, in May 2000, was acquired by Allscripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) for $125 million. |
| In January 2001, Scott was brought in as Chairman and CEO of Cyberguard Corporation to perform a turn-around. Cyberguard had been de-listed from the NASDAQ Exchange and had a pending SEC investigation and class action lawsuit. With less than $1 million in cash and a market capitalization of only $15 million, the company was nearing bankruptcy. Over the course of the three year turn-around, Cyberguard became the technology leader in network security solutions to Fortune 100 companies and governments worldwide. The company was re-listed on the NASDAQ Exchange, settled its class action lawsuit, accumulated $15 million in cash and grew its market capitalization to $225 million. Scott Hammack is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in biomedical engineering. He lives in Naples, Florida with his wife and 4 sons. |
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Paul E. Lazarre, Founder and CEO
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 | Paul E. Lazarre is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Leap Real Estate Systems, which specializes in productivity and marketing technology solutions for top performing residential real estate agents. LeapRE’s products have been developed over the past five years based on direct interactions with top real estate agents across North America. A lifelong software entrepreneur, Paul’s passion is solving people’s business challenges through the use of technology. Paul started programming commercial software at age 11 (for use in hospitals) and started his first technology company, Impact Software, at age 17. |
| At age 20, Paul joined MasterChart, a medical record venture on the leading edge of electronic health records management. As a key technology executive in this start-up, MasterChart grew to over 50 people over the course of 5 years, and in 2000 it was sold to Allscripts for $125 million. Since then, Paul and his partner developed two more technology companies from ideas to thriving businesses. Paul also serves as principal to Master Venture Partners, a technology venture fund that invests in early stage technology companies with revenues of $500,000 to $5 million. Master Venture Partners is currently active in the real estate, healthcare and security verticals. Paul holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and serves on the President’s Council of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. He lives in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Jennifer Ames, and their three boys. |
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Craig Sparling, General Manager
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 | Craig Sparling hails from Bismarck, ND where he graduated from the University of Mary with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Craig has worked with thought leaders and top agents and brokerages for 5+ years, shaping Leap’s software solutions to best fit their business needs. He is an expert in data and analytics and consistently pushes these principles in the development of the LeapRE product suite. Craig’s advocacy for forward thinking practices in merging new tech advances with tried and true marketing techniques is a cornerstone of the LeapRE vision. He also collaborates with the media in order to provide data insights on various aspects of the industry and is continually learning through hands-on collaboration. Along with his business pursuits, Craig’s hobbies include men’s ice hockey, racquetball, and chess instruction at Chess Wizards, an afterschool program serving Chicagoland area youth. |