Mark Birschbach

Senior Vice President, Strategic Business, Innovation & Technology

2017 - Current

The Strategic Business, Innovation & Technology Group (SBIT) drives industry innovation and benefits to NAR Members through strategic relationships with a broad range of business and technology players. Those strategic relationships drive significant non-dues revenue, return on investment, and cost savings to NAR members. SBIT includes the following NAR businesses: • Second Century Ventures: the strategic investment arm of NAR, the most active investor in real estate technology • REACH technology accelerator: award-winning, global accelerator focused on tech in real estate across borders and segments, with operations in the US (residential and commercial RE), Australia, Canada, the UK, and LatAm. • REALTOR Benefits® Program with over 30 partners that provide significant cost savings and non-dues revenue to NAR • Emerging Technology Group: responsible for identifying and researching emerging technologies with potential to impact the real estate industry, and creating relationships with developers to influence them in a way that benefits RE professionals • NAR's Strategic Think Tank: made up of world class, cross-industry business leaders and innovators to ensure that NAR is at the forefront of emerging technologies and business trends that will lead NAR into the future • Real Estate Innovation, Opportunity & Investment Summit (iOi): dynamic annual conference that brings together innovators, capital investors, and leaders in the real estate community to identify and create opportunities among the groups and drive innovation in real estate • Realtors Information Network (RIN) which manages NAR's relationship with Move Inc. (Realtor.com) and its Top Level Domain businesses (.realtor and .realestate) • Product Management Group which includes the REALTOR store, the MVP and Right Tools, Right Now programs • NAR's relationship with the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO); and other Strategic Alliances, Initiatives, and NAR Family of Investment companies.

Vice President, Strategic Investments

2013 - 2017

Managing Director

2013

Second Century Ventures is a dedicated venture fund fully capitalized by the National Association of REALTORS® to invest in innovative technology companies within the real estate and its adjacent industries. SCV is the most active investor in real estate technology.

Managing Director

2013

REach® is an accelerator program developed by the National Association of Realtors' strategic investment arm, Second Century Ventures, to find the top companies with robust business solutions across multiple industries, and help them execute those solutions within the real estate and its adjacent industries. REACH is the first award winning, global accelerator focused on technology in real estate across borders and segments, with operations in the US (including residential and commercial programs), Australia, Canada, the UK and Latin America.

Chief Operating Officer

2012 - 2012

Collaborated with founder and Board of Directors to establish and execute strategic vision for e-commerce start-up company funded by Lightbank (Groupon co-founders); Monthlys is the go-to marketplace for consumers to discover, purchase, gift, and manage subscriptions and memberships to the products and services they love.

President & Chief Operating Officer

2009 - 2012

Responsible for all strategic planning and execution, leading and managing all day-to-day operations, and capital raising and investor relations. Active Radius provides technology-based marketing solutions to service professionals and others that engage their database of clients on a regular basis with branded content and real cost savings, leading to a larger, more active referral network and increased customer retention.

Vice President, Investment Banking

1999 - 2008

Led transaction teams and served as key client contact during execution of M&A and capital markets transactions across a broad range of industries including Industrials, Consumer, TMT, Real Estate and Health Care; Significant experience on buyside and sellside transactions involving both strategic buyers and financial sponsors with announced deal value totaling more than $21 billion; Led transaction teams in all facets of capital raising process, including due diligence, document drafting and marketing preparation for equity offerings, leveraged loans, high yield offerings and investment grade debt offerings with deal value totaling more than $13 billion;