Bill Allen, has designed, marketed and implemented business application systems since 1974 after attending graduate study in Business Administration and serving military duty. Having been originally a secondary education teacher, Bill has a keen sense of the process of education and employs many of those techniques in his consulting work and procedure guides for builders. Since 1987 Bill has served the homebuilding industry and helps improve builders’ controls and profitability through the application of integrated builder software and helping make it work to the client’s needs. he has served as a state director with Washington Building Industry and is currently a national director.  He Has written many articles for the Business Management Committee of NAHB and been a repeated speaker at the International Builder's Show.

Paul Cardis, founder and CEO, of Avid Ratings, a leader in the building industry for technology solutions. Avid creates exceptional customer experiences through a suite of online and mobile tools that help builders plan, manage, measure, promote, and engage their customers to create the ultimate digital home buying experience.

Paul didn’t join the homebuilding industry by accident. His father was a builder in the Midwest market, working on prominent skyscrapers and later working in asbestos abatement before retiring to Mexico. It was his father who encouraged Paul to take his research knowledge to the homebuilding industry, which desperately needed help understanding its customers and improving the purchasing process for homebuyers.

Since Avid Ratings’ inception in 1992, Paul has driven unprecedented growth, innovation, and development of Avid's integrated solutions into a seamless platform that over 1,000 builders use in North America.