Rick Sharga

Summary

Rick is the Founder & CEO of CJ Patrick Company, a market intelligence and business advisory firm firm that helps real estate, financial services, and technology companies develop a position of competitive advantage and use it to drive business strategy, marketing, and sales. One of the country’s most frequently-quoted sources on real estate, mortgage and foreclosure trends, Rick has appeared regularly over the past 20 years on CNBC, the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, ABC World News, FOX, Bloomberg and NPR. Rick is a member of the Board of the Asian Real Estate Association of America and the Board of Directors of the National Association of Default Professionals. He was a founding member of the National Mortgage Servicing Association, and was twice included in the Inman News Inman 100, an annual list of the most influential leaders in real estate. An accomplished executive with over 30 years of experience in consumer and B2B marketing, Rick was previously the Executive Vice President of Market Intelligence at ATTOM, one of the country's leading providers of comprehensive real estate data for companies in the real estate, mortgage, insurance, finance and government markets, and was an Executive Vice President for Carrington Mortgage Holdings, responsible for Corporate Communications, and was the Chief Marketing Officer of the Company's Vylla Homes business unit. Rick was also the CMO of Ten-X, the leading online real estate marketplace, where he started in July of 2013 as EVP of the company’s Auction.com business unit. Prior to that, Rick spent eight years at RealtyTrac, where as SVP he was responsible for marketing, business development and data operations, and won the Stevie® Award for National Marketing Executive of the Year. Before RealtyTrac, Rick developed and executed sales and marketing programs for technology companies such as Fujitsu, JD Edwards, Toshiba, and Hitachi; start-ups like Tickets.com; and consumer brands including Pizza Hut, Acura and Cox Communications.