Marc Cunningham is the president and owner of Grace Property Management & Real Estate. Grace Property Management & Real Estate aims to help real estate owners and investors locate, buy, lease and manage investment real estate. Our mission since 1978: To improve the lives of real estate investors and residents through Property Management solutions. 

National speaker and educator on the topics of property management, real estate, business systems, and leadership. Marc helps people across the country develop and implement successful strategies to improve their business success.

As the lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) of NAR’s upcoming rebuild of ePro, 2023 RIS Media Newsmaker as an Industry Futurist, over 150 in-person & virtual speaking engagements around the world each year, including sessions for NAR, several state conventions & other key industry events, Craig Grant is considered one of the most sought-after technology, marketing & cybersecurity speakers around. Whether it be at an industry event, in the classroom, or online via Zoom or the RETI.us portal, one thing that fuels Craig is to help today’s real estate professionals embrace and get over their fear of technology so that it can work for them and not against them.

As his motto, “Advanced Real Estate Technology & Marketing Instructed at a Pre-K Level” states, Craig is able to take extremely complicated topics & present them in a way that the average non-technical person not only understands but is able to apply & improve their business. In addition to being the CEO of the Real Estate Technology Institute and RETI.us, the Real Estate Industry’s Home for Online Technology Education, Craig Grant is an avid sports fan & music lover who can be found watching and/or participating in events and concerts with friends.

Reggie Copeland, affectionatelyknown as “The Bow-Tie Guy” has been licensed for over 20 years. He has servedon the Grievance Committee, Professional Standard Committee, and the Board ofDirectors for NVAR, passionately giving back to the industry that he lovesdearly. During the course of his career Reggie has managed his own real estateteam and spent many years managing a real estate office. He has especiallyenjoyed opportunities of teaching. Over the last 15 years he has found this an extremelyrewarding way to create knowledge transfer from his many years, and manyexperiences. His goal has always been to teach real estate classes with lots ofexcitement! An associate broker, he is a certified instructor and teaches GRI,Principles & Practices of Real Estate as well as many other courses. He hassold residential and commercial real estate and has been a contributor toNVAR’s RE+View Magazine and the Washington Post. He is available to teach allof the GRI courses. 

Laura Murray started working at Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS^® (NVAR) as a legal intern the summer between her second and third year of law school. After graduation, she accepted a full-time position as an attorney at NVAR. Three years later, an opportunity opened up at Virginia REALTOR^® that would allow her to use the Regulatory Law Certificate she had earned in law school; she applied and was hired! Just over three years and three promotions later, she was made General Counsel.

Doug Wolfe is a principal broker/owner and is a member of the Hampton Roads Realtors Association. He has over 26 years of real estate experience, has seven designations, and is an advocate for REALTOR® education. He is a tenured instructor of the Virginia REALTORS® GRI program, and teaches SRES and Code of Ethics courses for local associations.

He is passionate about educating the next generation of real estate professionals. He states that his main goal is to help other REALTORS® look outside the box when it comes to working with buyers and sellers to achieve amazing results.

Barrie B. Bowers is an attorney with in-house experience for a major apartment real estate investment trust who understands the needs of property management and other real estate companies. She has extensive experience in a full range of property management issues, real estate transactions, outdoor advertising, and landlord-tenant and fair housing laws—including representing clients before the Virginia Real Estate and Fair Housing Boards. 

Barrie provides in-house training on a broad range of property management legal issues and has expertise in the negotiation of contracts with providers of voice, data, and video including cable and telephone companies. For real estate clients, Barrie regularly handles sales, acquisition, and other property transactions, ranging from easements to single asset purchases to portfolio transactions. Barrie’s diligent approach from the beginning to the end of any project helps maintain a focus on the finish line while anticipating and attending to the details of the project along the way.