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Our Staff
 Debbie Richardson, Vice President/Co-Manager -
While others were viewing reconveyance as necessary if unappealing pick and shovel work, Debbie was one of the first to recognize an untapped opportunity. While at Commonwealth Land Title where her all-inclusive resume starts some 20 years ago, she initiated a new trend in reconveyance service. Debbie originated the Commonwealth Land Title conveyance department and moved to totally blanket the reconveyance needs of client companies.
It wasn't long before she began sensing an emerging need of a new direction for reconveyance to grow, and the logical direction was the utilization of the Internet. Now as part of the RPI team, Debbie's vision has become reality. RPI clients can view reconveyance information from their own desktop.
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 Kristina Faller,
Vice President/Co-Manager -
Kristina entered the title Industry as a reconveyance specialist for First American Title in 1992. Applying technology to enhance the capability of the reconveyance department was Kristina's first pursuit as she helped develop the department from a manual process to fully computerized. In 1998, she was recruited to the reconveyance department for Commonwealth Land Title where she gained exposure to the leading edge innovations being implemented there, as well as expanding her own customer service management skills.
Working closely with co-manager Debbie Richardson, the idea of reconveyance processing taking the next step and becoming web friendly was about to take shape.
Now with the RPI team, Kristina has helped to develop a user friendly and technologically advanced reconveyance program. It is one of the highlights of Kristina's career to watch this develop from just an idea to a fully capable company.
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James R. Hoagland, President -
For over 20 years, James Hoagland has known that there must be a better way to handle a reconveyance. Now as President and co-founder of Reconveyance Professionals, Inc. (RPI) he is introducing a new day of faster, accessible, compliant and secure reconveyance processing.
Jim's distinguished career in Title Insurance began in 1973 with Safeco Title Insurance located in Seattle. His vast background has all of the title industry bases covered. He acquired extensive knowledge within the industry by working with companies such as Pioneer National Title Insurance (TICOR) and Commonwealth Land Title. In 1985, he co-founded Commonwealth Land Title Company of Snohomish County where he served as President and CEO.
An ever-active leader in the industry, in 1993 Jim again, co-founded and served as Chairman of the Board for Evergreen Title Company, Inc. of King and Snohomish Counties. In October 2001, again stretching his expertise, he co-founded and became majority owner of Lawyers Title Agency of Washington. Lawyers Title Agency ranks in the top five agencies nationally for remittances to Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation.
Jim now brings his extensive experience with reconveyance and his innovative know how to the next generation of reconveyance - RPI
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Paul M. Merz, Executive Vice President of Operations -
From the debut of Paul's distinguished career in the title industry he has been a force of progress. Beginning at Ticor Title in 1976, his insight to make better use of technology has continually challenged and stretched the status quo, providing cost effective, productive solutions for nearly 30 years.
Paul's credentials reveal a tireless leader of the title industry. He is currently on the Washington State Property Records Education Steering Committee, and is the technology committee chair and website administrator of Washington Land Title Association. While holding the position of Regional IT Director for Ticor Title, Chicago Title, and First American Title, he served on their respective steering committees.
Paul graduated from the University of Washington in 1982 with a B.A. in Economics while also pursuing concentrated studies in Business and Computer Science.
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Charles W. Trafton III, Chairman of the Board -
Chuck entered the title insurance business as a sales representative in 1987 while living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nine years later, following a series of professional achievements Chuck was presented the Sales Achievers Award as top Sales Manager West of the Mississippi. Within a few years Chuck was promoted to El Paso County Manager, beginning his climb up the corporate ladder. After three successful years he was asked to relocate to Seattle to serve as the General Manager for the Lawyers Title Agency of Washington.
Chuck's ambitious nature was already in evidence as a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he served as President of the Colorado University Financial Management Association. While acting as President, Chuck and a small group of business and economics students founded the University of Colorado Boulder Student Federal Credit Union (UCBSFCU). The UCBSFCU was the 13th Federally Chartered Student Credit Union. Chuck was a recipient of the Eisenhower-Evans Scholarship, and graduated in 1986 with a B.S. in Business.
Chuck brings to the table for RPI his "from the ground up" experience in the title insurance business as well as extensive knowledge of the banking industry.
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Lawrence Farmer, Executive Vice President of Technology -
Implementing cutting-edge technology requires fast, accurate, compliant and secure processing of information. Larry brings 20 years experience designing and managing financial information systems. He has served as a technical consultant for Microsoft, Starbucks, Washington Mutual, Boeing and US WEB.
Larry spearheaded a program to ensure customer data was compliant prior to submitting to the Federal Reserve Bank. He is also credited with developing systems that process information with County Tax Assessor and Treasurer databases.
Larry has worked extensively in the real estate industry implementing progressive online technologies for escrow, title, and one of the first online real estate companies - ehome.com.
Larry graduated with a B.A. in Information Technology from Western Washington University as well as earning an Associates Degree in Real Estate.
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