Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Robert (Bob) McAvoy - Founder, Chief Visionary Officer and Director
Mr. McAvoy has over 35 years of experience in the real estate industry and has served as a Broker and Office Manager for major New Hampshire real estate companies. He was an original Charter Member of the Salem, NH Board of Realtors. During his time on the Salem Board, he served on various Committees that helped bring buyer agency into the Board. He served as Vice Chair of the Professional Standards Committee. Bob founded and was President of Brandon Real estate. In 1989, he and his staff boldly decided to become an exclusive buyer agency office-unheard of back then. His two offices quickly became one of the largest buyer agencies in NH and Bob was then recognized as one of the leading experts in buyer agency. Bob founded and was the first elected President of the New Hampshire Exclusive Buyer Agency Group. Professional training was provided for those that wanted to represent the homebuyer, Bob was instrumental in establishing this level of representation. Buyer’s View and the endorsement of buyer agency throughout the USA and Canada are the best expressions of how important that is and were to home buying consumers. He continues to turn the Real Estate world on its head with the launch of Buyer's View. Bob is also past founder and President of AAA Home Inspection Company that serviced the States of New Hampshire and Maine and held the Exclusive Regional Franchise rights for both States.
Jeff Rapson - President, CEO, and Director
Rapson teamed up with Founder Bob McAvoy to launch Buyer’s View in the fall of 2017. With over 30+ years of productive senior level business development, Jeff’s prior startup, consulting and direct sales experience in both traditional and new media offers our company significant strategic insights and tactical advantages. This expertise plus Jeff’s active Buyer Agency realty experience affords Buyer’s View considerable insight and management depth. Having commercialized many high tech products and solutions, Jeff’s expertise and broad operational experience will help to put Buyer’s View on a very firm footing in the coming years. Jeff has long enjoyed working with start-ups focused on Real Estate, media and consumer products. In the recent past, he helped Search Initiatives, Points Mentioned, Jitterjam, MingleMediaTV and Wakup to get to market and build brands. He has an MBA in Leadership from Franklin Pierce University and history degree from York University in Toronto, his hometown. He has a long track record of success in selling into new market niches (Real Estate Technology, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization). He especially enjoys meeting highly energized entrepreneurs and helping them bring their ideas to market.
Mark Hahs - CTO and VP of BV’s Platform Development
Hahs provides Buyer’s View with executive-level leadership and management focused on technology, information, and product marketing strategy. Mark is responsible for Buyer’s View overall information architecture and development standards for a mobile-first modular, scalable, high-performance, enterprise-class software platform and application. He works with a top-flight team of functional architects, senior engineers and systems integrators to build our platform and modules; each designed to support and enhance the overall Buyer’s View consumer experience. He has a strong, hands-on understanding of software platforms and applications architecture with a deep understanding of the Buyer’s View business goals, marketing objectives and product requirements.
Mark also leads a worldwide digital and social media platform architecture and development team at his marketing agency O2Ware. O2Ware provides strategy, marketing, technology, business development and consulting solutions for business-to-business, business-to-consumer and business-to-enterprise applications. Clients, engagements and projects have included programs and platforms for Discover, United Airlines, MileagePlus, NBC-Universal, NFL, NBC 2004 Olympics, Motorola, Agilent Technologies, S.C.O.R.E., Microsoft, Chicago Tribune, Warner Brothers, Coca-Cola, Billabong, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, United States Mint, Sony Columbia-Tristar, Interscope Records, MCA, Sungard Treasury Systems, AAA, Oral-B and Grey Advertising.
Mark’s 25 years of experience in technology and digital marketing gives Buyer’s View a huge competitive technical advantage as Buyer’s View develops its world class Real Estate Portal.