The Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB), which has more than 3,000 members, elected a new Board of Directors in December.
The new executive is comprised of 2016 president Shane Silva, past president David Oikle, president elect Rick Eisert and vice president Ralph Shaw.
Silva has been an OREB member for 10 years and has served on numerous committees and task forces for the last five years. He was first elected to the OREB Board of Directors in 2014.
Shane Silva, 2016 President
Dwight Delahunt, Margie Hooper, Sarah Kiraly, Brian Sukkau and Josée Biggs (chair of the Commercial Services Division) will continue as directors on the board for the second year of their two-year term, along with newly elected/appointed directors Rachel Hammer, Dominique Milne, Anna Russell and Debra Wright.
“I’m honoured to be leading a great group of directors for the upcoming year,” says Silva. “The Mission Statement for the board is to help our member Realtors succeed and this is the team of professionals that our membership has entrusted to move us along that path.”
Members of OREB contributed approximately $70,000 to the Ontario Realtors Care Foundation this year and helped out 23 shelter-related charities in the area, just in time for the holiday season.
The funds were raised through the board’s annual charity golf tournament, the “dollar per member per month” campaign, and the Rona Card program, where a percentage of all money spent by OREB cardholders is donated to the foundation.
The Realtors Care Committee at the board received 23 grant applications from local shelter-related charities. Each was endorsed and recommended by a member of the board.
“It’s a great feeling to know that the money we raised and donated goes directly towards helping charities in Ottawa,” says Silva.
