Jim Ellsworth Joins Innovative Commercial Real Estate Platform RealConnex

NEW YORK, May 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- RealConnex, the most innovative online platform in the commercial real estate industry, announced today that Jim Ellsworth has joined the company as an advisor and member of the Board of Directors. Ellsworth brings to RealConnex decades of high-level experience in commercial real estate and finance. He most recently served as a Managing Director for AIG's Global Real Estate division and previously held the position of Senior Vice President at the Trust Company of the West for nearly a decade. Ellsworth is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the Harvard Business School.

"Jim is one of the most brilliant minds in commercial real estate and finance today," said Roy Abrams, CEO of RealConnex. "His positions as an advisor and member of our Board will dramatically extend RealConnex's capabilities to the commercial real estate industry. I am excited to work with him to continue establishing a 21^st Century model for commercial real estate transactions that moves beyond the traditional, time consuming and expensive practices in the current marketplace."

Abrams, named last year as one of the top 100 tech innovators in the world by Web Summit, established RealConnex to provide an online marketplace for real estate professionals seeking to be connected to new capital, investments, services and opportunities. By bringing together all aspects of the real estate marketplace, Abrams has created the most comprehensive B2B commercial real estate site in the world and has delivered a way to safely and securely network and transact.

"RealConnex is quite simply one of the most innovative commercial real estate tech platforms available today," said Ellsworth. "Roy's visionary leadership has created a website that seamlessly connects commercial real estate professionals looking to make cost-saving deals in real time. I am thrilled to be joining RealConnex at this exciting time as its membership levels continue to grow at exponential rates."

Launched in 2014, RealConnex is an unparalleled platform that bridges technology, finance and commercial real estate by matching professionals to capital, lenders, advisors, joint ventures and developers in real time. RealConnex was named one of the top 150 startup companies in the world at the 2014 Web Summit conference because of its potential to shift the traditional commercial real estate market.

SOURCE RealConnex

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