Annie Ives

CEO - The MLS®/CLAW

Annie Ives has served as Chief Executive Officer of The MLS®/CLAW since September 1995. During her tenure, she brought The MLS®/CLAW from the brink of a hostile takeover to a productive, profitable and thriving company. Under her leadership, The MLS®/CLAW went from licensing an MLS system, and its support and training from an MLS vendor to developing its own full function browser-based MLS system, serviced by in-house support and training staff, while operating a profitable MLS business.

In addition, Ives established a Production Department to initiate the in-house publication of two weekly magazines which promote broker and public open houses, putting a well established company out of business with a superior product.

Ives has managed to keep costs below budget, and The MLS®/CLAW has remained profitable which enables the organization to stay competitive while continuously providing added value to members.

In 2010, Ives began serving as Chief Financial Officer of California Real Estate Technology Services (CARETS). CARETS provides an all inclusive database of properties for sale covering six counties in Southern California. CARETS is now comprised of seven MLSs serving 95,000+ real estate professionals in Southern California.

Ives earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Education at CSUN, and an MBA degree at Woodbury University.