Advisory Board

mhMLS has created an Advisory Board to help us as we move forward in creating a national MLS for manufactured housing. This advisory board includes the following members:

H. Stuart Taylor is CEO of Your New Career, Inc. a consultancy organization working with people who want to start or acquire a business or franchise and is Acting CEO of mhMLS... He has had a long and successful career as a “serial entrepreneur” starting new businesses in the United State, Europe and the Middle East. In 1964 he founded Taylor, Nelson and Associates a London, England based market research firm. The company now Taylor Nelson Sofres, Plc has offices in over 70 countries is quoted on the London stock exchange and has gross sales in access of $1.2 billion. Stuart's hold a BA degree from Colgate University, a MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a MA from the London School of Economics in International Finance.

Richard S. Gourley is senior vice president and chief information officer for Alain Pinel Realtors, a $7.4 billion leader in the residential real estate industry. Dick is a seasoned Silicon Valley technology executive and is known as a positive builder of customer-focused organizations. Gourley began his career with IBM Corporation where he held a number of sales and marketing management positions in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In 1991, Dick moved to Silicon Valley and joined the Oracle Corporation in 1994 where he was appointed senior director of marketing for Oracle's enterprise applications business. From 1996 until mid-1998, he served as corporate vice president of worldwide sales for Adaptec, a provider of bandwidth management. Until recently Dick was CEO of REInfoLink, one of the largest multiple listing services in the country where he and his team introduced innovative management and technical know-how into a MLS. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point.

Peter Shuttleworth is currently the Executive VP - chief executive of a regional residential MLS company, a position he have held for over twenty years. The MLS serves over seven thousand Realtors® in Wisconsin providing web-based information services and high-level technical support and education. Peter has worked in management and information technology for over thirty years. His MLS’s subsidiary company WIREdata Corporation trades in public information regarding real property, also providing an online service.

Peter’s industry involvement includes 2005 Vice Chair of the National Association of Realtors® MLS Issues Forum as well as being a member of their Board of Directors. peter is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Multiple Listing Services and served as their President in 2004. He has traveled in Russia, Armenia and Panama as an instructor, demonstrating how an MLS can be developed and deployed. He is frequently invited to speak on MLS and technology and also conduct strategic planning programs for associations and MLS'. He is considered by his piers to be an expert on MLS and property information systems.

WB. Freeman is widely recognized as the foremost expert in the field of collection, enhancement and distribution of real estate related information. The diversity and depth of his experience in the five principal data applications of the real property transaction set (brokerage, MLS, mortgage, title insurance and appraisal) has solidified his unique, broad-based understanding of the segment that few others enjoy. In an information servicing career spanning twenty-six years, he has tirelessly shared his knowledge and love of the business with a vast, almost legendary network of contacts, connections, confidantes, and competitors. His selection as founding chairman of the property information industry trade association, followed by a Lifetime Achievement Award, are fitting tributes to a reputation he has earned as "the marquee name in the REI Servicing Business."

Each of these members brings a wealth of experience to mhMLS. We feel it is critical to have not only professional advice from individuals who have had first hand experience in the development and operation of a MLS, but also people who can provide experience on the technical and administrative problems that we will encounter. Not only can they advise us on how to most effectively deploy the services we offer, but they will also help us to recognize mistakes of the real estate industry has it in has developed their multiple listing services throughout the country.

Boyce Belt has enjoyed a long career in services relating to the Manufactured Housing Industry.

In !975 he established a mortgage brokerage business, Mobile Financial Services. He operated that business until sometime in the early 1980s when he developed a business marketing mobile home foreclosures which he ran until the mid 1990s. In approximately 1995 he resumed his mortgage brokerage services under the name of Santiago Financial Inc., a business which he continues today, obtaining funding for manufactured housing through major lenders.

Boyce also served on the Finance Committee of MHI, until his term ended in October, 2004.

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