Leadership Team
President | |
 | President-elect |
 | Vice-president |
 | Treasurer Bill White Joyner Fine Properties 2727 Enterprise Parkway Richmond, VA 23294 Office: (804) 967-2740 Click here for e-mail Click here for biographical information |
 | Immediate Past President Trish Szego, CRB, CRS ERA-Elite Group, REALTORS® 10306 Eaton Place, Suite 120 Fairfax, VA 22030 Phone: (703) 359-7800 Click here for e-mail Click here for biographical information |
MARY DYKSTRA, VAR'S 2013 PRESIDENT
Mary Dykstra is a partner with MKB, REALTORS® in Roanoke has been an active member of the Roanoke Valley Association of REALTORS®, serving as its president in 2005; in 2008 she was named RVAR’s Realtor of the Year. She currently serves on RVAR’s Grievance and Public Relations committees.
Mary has chaired several Virginia Association of Realtors committees, and has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2006. At the national level, she is a member of NAR’s Board of Directors and 2012 chair of its communications committee.
Mary serves her local community as a member of Roanoke’s Architectural Review Board, as a board member of Roanoke City's Board of Equalization, and as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children. She lives in Roanoke with her husband and has two children.
BRAD BOLAND, VAR's 2013 PRESIDENT-ELECT
Bradley Boland has been a licensed real estate agent since 1975 and a licensed broker since 1978. He is currently an Associate Broker with Keller Williams Realty of Reston. He has worked in all areas of real estate including residential home sales, land development, construction of commercial and industrial buildings, and property management of large investment grade assets including retail shopping centers and apartment complexes. Over the years, Brad has owned and managed various real estate companies and has been responsible for overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate sales. He was recently voted REALTOR® of the Year by the Dulles Area Association of Realtors.
At the national level, Brad is serving his 4th term on the National Associations of Realtors’ Conventional Financing and Lending Committee as well as his 3rd term as a member of the Public Policy Coordinating Committee. At the state level, he is the Virginia Association of Realtors’ 2013 President-Elect. Brad has also served as Chairman of the RPAC Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Professionalism Work Group and along with serving on numerous committees and work groups, in 2009 he chaired the Public Policy Committee. Brad is also a graduate of the 2007 Virginia Leadership Academy and a long standing member of the Honor Society.
At the local level, in 2009 he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Dulles Area Association of REALTORS® and in 2011 was elected as President of the Blue Ridge Association of REALTORS®. He has received many achievement/ production awards and prides himself on his work toward the enhancement of professionalism in the real estate profession.
Brad and his wife Elaine live in Purcellville and are the proud parents of five beautiful daughters. They operate Fields of Athenry Farm where they specialize in the raising of nutrient dense lamb, cattle and poultry for wholesale and retail purposes.
DEBORAH BAISDEN, VAR'S 2013 VICE PRESIDENT
Deborah Baisden has been a licensed Realtor® since 1989. She is a consistent, active top producer in the Hampton Roads area with Prudential Towne Realty and has volunteered with her local association since joining.
Deborah has served on many committees and advisory groups and the Board of Directors for the Hampton Roads REALTORS® Association and was the Chairman of the Board in 2004. Her activities include chairing the Awards Committee for 3 consecutive years, Chair of the Realtor Foundation Chairing the Resale Committee, Executive Committee and Trustee of the Hampton Roads REALTORS® Association PAC. Awarded Realtor® Salesperson of the Year in 1999 and the Code of Ethics Award in 2005.
Deborah’s continued involvement locally evolved naturally into the Virginia Association of REALTORS® in 2005 when she was appointed to Public Policy Committee and in subsequent years to Governance Review Workgroup, Strategic Planning Group, Budget Committee, Awards Review Group and served on the Board of Directors from 2008 to 2011.
At the National level, Deborah sits on the NAR Board Jurisdiction Committee since 2010 and recently served on a Presidential Advisory Group on Membership Structure.
An RPAC Sterling R Contributor for many years, Deborah remains passionate about the issues facing our industry and the public we serve.
With a Fine Arts Degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada, she served as the Curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia until moving to Virginia Beach and beginning her real estate career in Hampton Roads. Deborah is a supporter of the Relay for Life, Samaritan House, March of Dimes and the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter. She lives in Virginia Beach with her husband, Barry, who teaches visually impaired children with the Virginia Beach school system. She is the proud mother of a son Gregory who is a graduate of VCU Criminal Justice program and works for Sears in Richmond, and a daughter, Alena, who graduated from SUNY at Albany with a Communications Degree and currently works in Alexandria as the Digital Media Director for Smart Media Group.
BILL WHITE, VAR'S 2013 TREASURER
Since 1998, Bill White has been President/Owner of Joyner Fine Properties, a full service real estate company numbering over 130 agents with residential, commercial, farm & estate, and property management divisions with three locations as well as two satellite sales centers. Joyner Fine Properties is locally owned with national, international, and regional marketing network affiliations such as Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®.
Bill is an officer in Traditional Title, which is approximately five years old and represents six of the larger title companies throughout the United States. Prior to Bill's association with Joyner Fine Properties, he was associated with ITT Community Development Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Corporation. He held the position of Vice President with specific responsibilities for residential sales and property management, which had volumes of 30 million dollars in sales and a management portfolio of up to 8,000 condominium units. During his 30-year career in real estate
Bill has been involved in most aspects of commercial and residential sales and development. He holds several designations from the National Association of REALTORS®, is a past President of Richmond Association of REALTORS® and was awarded the Virginia Association of REALTORS® Salesman of the Year Award in 1983 and the Richmond Association of REALTORS® REALTOR® of the Year Award in 2007. He continues to be active in the Richmond Association of REALTORS® as well as the Virginia Association of REALTORS®.
Bill's philosophy for Joyner Fine Properties encompasses continued controlled growth and a perpetual concentration on customer/client service with a specific goal of adding value to every transaction in which Joyner Fine Properties is involved. Joyner Fine Properties is consistently one of the highest producing real estate companies per capita when compared to other real estate companies their size in the greater Richmond area.
TRISH SZEGO, VAR'S IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Trish Szego has been a Realtor more than 30 years, and for 20 of them has been co-owner of ERA Elite Group in Fairfax. She’s a member of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors, where she was named chairman of the board in 2004 and RPAC fundraising chair in 2010. She also served on MRIS’s board from 2005-2010.
At the state level, Trish has served on a long list of VAR committees and work groups, and has been a member of its Board of Directors since 2005. After serving in several leadership roles, she became VAR’s 2012 president.
Trish has been involved in various charitable organizations and fundraising events through her firm. She has two children and currently lives in Haymarket.