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The Massachusetts Association of Realtors has appointed a new leader after a five-and-a-half-month nationwide search.
The trade group announced yesterday it has hired Theresa Hatton as its CEO and executive vice president. Hatton will assume her role as MAR’s seventh full-time association executive on June 3.
Hatton is a nationally recognized association executive with extensive experience in running successful organizations. She was previously the CEO of the Greenwich Association of Realtors, the Williamson County Association of Realtors and as the director of professional development and industry relations at the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors.
She holds both the Realtor Certified Executive and Certified Association Executive designations, and was the chair of the National Association of Realtors’ Association Executives Committee.
“MAR is one of the top state Realtor associations in the country and I look forward to working with its volunteer leaders and professional staff to not only maintain its excellence, but also push it higher,” Hatton said in a statement.
In her new role, Hatton will oversee the effective implementation of all association activities and services in accordance with the MAR strategic plan; provide advice and counsel to the state’s 13 local Realtor associations and manage the association’s finances in conjunction with MAR’s treasurer.
In addition, she will help develop the association’s goals, objectives and related policies; act as a MAR spokesperson; coordinate and supervise the activities of MAR’s professional staff and serve on MAR’s Executive Committee and New England Realtors Committee.
“This is an exciting day for both the membership and the professional staff of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors,” 2019 MAR President Anne Meczywor and a broker/associate at Lenox-based Roberts & Assoc. Realty Inc. said in a statement. “Through multiple rounds of interviews, Theresa proved to be the most outstanding candidate out of a group of outstanding candidates.”
