Please join me in welcoming my friend Ken Brand to the GEB contributor team. Ken is the sales manager for Prudential Gary Greene Realtors in The Woodlands Texas. He’s a transplanted surfer originally from San Diego but naturalized as a Texan 🙂 I first met Ken in 1996 or so. I worked with an ISP in the area and during my first meeting with Ken we found that we had a great deal in common regarding business and our view of the impact of technology on the industry. When Ken introduces me to someone the conversation sometimes includes facts like people were using 486 PC’s or that our ISP was the first in the area to go from a whopping 33.6K dial up speed to a new rack of shiny new U.S. Robotics 56K modems!

Ken and I have continued those conversations over the years. We swap books and talk about how many of our predictions from years gone by have been hits or misses. In all that time his desire to understand technology and guide his team to best practices and tools has not changed a bit. He has a great sense of humor, top notch writing ability and a very unique perspective as it relates to the topics of this blog. I know you’ll enjoy his contributions.

Now that Ken has an iPad, I guess swapping books will join the digital realm. That’s not something we talked about 14 years ago.