Our Team
Leadership. Done Right.
Our Team
Leadership.
Done Right.
HouseCheck was founded by a leadership team of forward-thinking and business-minded professionals in partnership with an experienced and world-class Board of Directors.
This exceptional team will guide HouseCheck to be an innovative, efficient, fiscally responsible, customer-service driven company with a strong identity. At some point in the future, when the company is publicly held, it will continue on a consistent manageable growth track to ensure financial sustainability as it drives toward maximum profitability for shareholders.
Here’s a look at the HouseCheck Management Team:
HouseCheck was founded by a leadership team of forward-thinking and business-minded professionals in partnership with an experienced and world-class Board of Directors.
This exceptional team will guide HouseCheck to be an innovative, efficient, fiscally responsible, customer-service driven company with a strong identity. At some point in the future, when the company is publicly held, it will continue on a consistent manageable growth track to ensure financial sustainability as it drives toward maximum profitability for shareholders.
Here’s a look at the HouseCheck Management Team:
Dennis Conforto: CEO & Board President
Mr. Conforto is an accomplished entrepreneur and senior executive with over 35 years of experience and a strong portfolio of successes.
Mr. Conforto is especially skilled in orchestrating the growth of start-ups and global firms including both private and publicly held corporations. He has demonstrated his diversified and unique skill-set through the optimization of many businesses in many different fields; including retail, manufacturing, software development and sales, publishing, media buying, e-commerce, online services and business consulting, resulting in Mr. Conforto being considered one of the world’s foremost experts in Retail.
Mr. Conforto’s proven ability for elevating businesses into top revenue-generating entities has led him to be an in-demand motivational speaker, author and industry spokesperson. He has been CEO for many businesses and organizations, and has served on several Boards of Directors.
Mr. Conforto has traveled over 8 million miles around the globe, and is accomplished in International Business and culture.
WEBSITE: DennisConforto.com
BILL KLEHM: President & COO
Previously he served Chairman and CEO of Fallbrook Technologies and, as President and General Manager of Newgen Results Corporation, an automotive customer relations management firm. Prior to joining Newgen, Mr. Klehm served as President and SBU Director for Visteon Climate Control Systems Ltd. He helped develop and launch Visteon’s Aftermarket Division. He started his career with Ford Motor Company in 1985, and held a variety of posts within the Ford Customer Service Division where he was responsible for developing and executing the marketing/growth strategy for its customer service parts business.
Mr. Klehm holds a B.A. in Management and Marketing from Northwood University and also participated in the Harvard Business School Executive Education Programs.
TIM MCGRAW: Executive Vice President and CFO
Mr. McGraw holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance from Miami University and a master’s degree in business administration from The Ohio State Fisher School of Business.
RICK RICKARDS: VP Marketing & CMO
Over the years, Mr. Rickards has worked in numerous capacities, including Account Executive, Art Director, Copywriter, Video Producer, Publisher, Director of Advertising, Creative Director, VP Electronic Media, VP Creative, and VP Marketing. This wide range of hands-on experience prepared him well for helping to launch a national consumer brand like HouseCheck.
Through his consulting firm, Rickards Marketing, Mr. Rickards perfected a proprietary consulting process, beginning with qualitative research for purposes of brand benchmarking, and proceeding through the development and implementation of marketing communications plans expressly designed to position each client for the realization of their goals.
Born and raised in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Mr. Rickards relocated to Southern California in 1985. He’s a husband, father of three, grandfather of one, occasional voiceover artist, and semi-professional musician.
SEAN PARRY: Chief Customer Officer and CTO
Mr. Parry is a highly successful senior-level executive with over twenty years of success in leading international marketing, business development, and IS initiatives. As a career-long marketing professional and entrepreneur, Mr. Parry has experience in functional roles and cross-functional general management capacities for start-up and high-growth public companies.
Mr. Parry has a unique skill set in building and maintaining world-class teams in the technology, software, retail, CPG, consumer electronics, and e-commerce industries.
As a participator in the local business community, Mr. Parry currently serves on several Boards of Advisors and is actively involved in the American Marketing Association. He also has affiliations with the National CMO Club, Intermountain Marketing Association, TechAmerica Executive Committee, and SIIA. Mr. Parry currently holds an active California Real Estate license, and has been recognized in the Cambridge Who’s Who.
PERRY CAMPBELL: VP Inspector Operations
Mr. Campbell began his construction career in the mid-80s, and by 1989, he’d been awarded a General Contractor’s license in California, and had started his own construction company, specializing in building new homes and remodeling existing homes.
After relocating to Boise, Idaho in the early 90s, Mr. Campbell worked as Construction Manager, specializing in residential remodeling.
Several years later, he started a side business as a home inspector. Mr. Campbell quickly discovered that inspecting homes offered him a great deal of personal satisfaction. As a home inspector, he was able to combine his impressive knowledge of construction and home systems with his amiable personality and engaging people skills.
Today, Mr. Campbell is applying his acquired skills, natural talents, and considerable experience as a home inspector to his position as Vice President of Inspector Operations at HouseCheck. In this job, he’s responsible for assuring that HouseCheck Home Inspectors deliver an exceptional customer experience with every inspection. In short, Perry Campbell is HouseCheck’s Master Inspector.
Mr. Campbell and his wife Kim, whom he met and married while serving in the U.S. Air Force, raised three children together, and now have thirteen grandchildren.
When he’s not inspecting houses or mentoring other Inspectors, Mr. Campbell enjoys golfing and snorkeling — occasionally at the same time. He also has a creative side — he’s self-published five books, and is a singer/songwriter who enjoys sharing his music in church and at home with family.
FRANCY FORBES: Chief of Staff
Francy Forbes is a highly productive expert at rapid implementation. She specializes in envisioning and implementing efficient and effective processes and procedures for any industry. She is a highly skilled driver in any fast-paced environment and is focused on reaching goals through attention to detail and quality.
Francy believes that the key to developing a business is the development of its people; learning and leadership go hand-in-hand. She is highly skilled in the training and development of a company’s workforce from analyzing needs to developing a training system to implementation and review.
Francy has earned a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and is a graduate of the San Diego County Deputy Sheriff Academy. She enjoyed seven short years in Law Enforcement before becoming a retail entrepreneur. Francy has owned and operated her own retail stores, and also spent many years as a General Manager and District Manager for big box retailers.
WENDI WOMACK: Accounting Manager
Wendi Womack has worked in the finance industry for over 15 years, gaining direct experience in treasury, budgeting & forecasting, financial reporting and managing finance-related projects. She also has experience in corporate tax preparation and collections.
Wendi’s strong analytical and problem-solving skills have driven her to be an aggressive and effective expert at streamlining and creating efficient accounting systems and processes that subsequently save clients time and money. Her superior organizational skills and ability to quickly take decisive action has enabled her to transition companies from old inefficient systems to cutting edge solutions, including the transition to entirely paperless accounts.
Wendi is a concise and effective communicator making her a natural and highly successful leader in any corporate environment. She is a strong liaison both internally and externally. Wendi is experienced at managing the due diligence of clients, thus strengthening relationships and nurturing financial health. She believes in leadership by example, and encourages employees to be better than they thought they could be.
Wendi has a BS in Accounting and is pursuing Certified Public Accounting Licensure, having successfully completed all of the required exams with exceptional speed and outstanding results.
MIKE ELDER: Director of Home Warranties & Inspector Insurance
In his early years of selling and managing, he led Honda Cars of Mesa, in Arizona, to be one of the top three auto dealerships in its category. While managing, he also received awards for being the #1 Honda Sales Executive in the State of Arizona.
Making a decision to raise his family close to his parents, he left Honda and, with his father, bought an existing Floor Covering and Furniture retail business in Washington State. Again, as Vice President, he excelled in personal sales volume while also managing a productive sales team.
Eventually, Mr. Elder was lured away from the family business, and returned to Arizona to lead a new sales team as General Manager with Honda which, under his leadership, set new records for high sales and overall productivity.
Sensing it would be wise to spend more time being a father rather than building sales teams, Mr. Elder relocated his family to Utah and started a large insurance agency, specializing in Senior benefits and serving as a “Safe Money Advisor” to his clients.
While growing his agency, he was recruited by Mr. Dennis Conforto (now founder of HouseCheck) to help build a sales team and organization for A-Z Media Group, an internet start-up company Mr. Conforto was launching from Southern California. Mr. Elder became EVP and organized a sales and production team that generated significant sales for A-Z Media Group.
Mr. Elder has served on several boards and committees, including the Thomas Edison Charter Schools (for whom he served as Board President), Kiwanis, A-Z Media Group, Community Events, and Boy Scouts. He has also held several significant leadership positions in the church where he and his family are members.
Most recently, as a direct result of his successful experience, Mr. Elder has been tapped to lead HouseCheck’s Business-to-Business sales efforts. His focus will be helping to grow HouseCheck into a national home inspection company that is positioned to best serve home buyers, home sellers, and others who desire the most complete, objective home inspection to inform their decisions.
Mike Elder and his wife Joan have 12 children, 30 grandchildren, and enjoy raising their family in Northern Utah.
Board of Directors:
DENNIS CONFORTO: Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Conforto is especially skilled in orchestrating the growth of start-ups and global firms including both private and publicly held corporations. He has demonstrated his diversified and unique skill-set through the optimization of many businesses in many different fields; including retail, manufacturing, software development and sales, publishing, media buying, e-commerce, online services and business consulting, resulting in Mr. Conforto being considered one of the world’s foremost experts in Retail.
Mr. Conforto’s proven ability for elevating businesses into top revenue-generating entities has led him to be an in-demand motivational speaker, author and industry spokesperson. He has been CEO for many businesses and organizations, and has served on several Boards of Directors.
Mr. Conforto has traveled over 8 million miles around the globe, and is accomplished in International Business and culture.
WEBSITE: DennisConforto.com
BILL KLEHM: Technology/Logistics Committee Chairperson
Previously he served Chairman and CEO of Fallbrook Technologies and, as President and General Manager of Newgen Results Corporation, an automotive customer relations management firm. Prior to joining Newgen, Mr. Klehm served as President and SBU Director for Visteon Climate Control Systems Ltd. He helped develop and launch Visteon’s Aftermarket Division. He started his career with Ford Motor Company in 1985, and held a variety of posts within the Ford Customer Service Division where he was responsible for developing and executing the marketing/growth strategy for its customer service parts business.
ROBERT G. ALLEN: Sales/Marketing Committee
He is a serial entrepreneur and a master of marketing. Mr. Allen is the author or co-author of some of the most influential books of all time, including fifteen New York Times bestsellers, and has over four million copies in print.
Through books, training seminars and coaching, Mr. Allen has become a world-renowned speaker and the authority on building wealth. The National Speakers Association named him “America’s Top Millionaire Maker,” and he has made thousands of appearances on television and radio, and has also been the subject of numerous articles in international publications.
Entrepreneurs hire Mr. Allen to take their knowledge, experience and passion and turn it into a way to build wealth through speaking, writing books or creating information products, as well as branding themselves to become known experts and recognized authors.
He teaches that the source of true wealth is an internal reservoir of passion, creative thinking, courage, persistence and giving back.
JOHN CASE: Sales/Marketing Committee Chairperson
His methodology involves crafting an effective strategy, focusing organizations on the most promising few objectives, and relentlessly communicating and driving execution across the organization – instilling accountability, securing buy-in across departments, and celebrating successes along the way.
Mr. Case is a recognized turnaround specialist, expert at quickly diagnosing core issues, returning distressed companies to profitability, and transforming demoralized cultures into committed, highly engaged employees.
Mr. Case is a motivating, people-focused leader who fosters top performance in all employees and who nurtures top talent into future leaders.
LEON H. REINHART: Finance/Audit Committee Chairperson
After nearly 30 years with Citibank, he returned to his native San Diego in 1996 as part of a group of private investors to purchase First National Bank, which led to the subsequent acquisition of Bank of Southern California. As its CEO and a substantial shareholder, he grew First National Bank to become one of San Diego’s largest and most profitable banks, culminating in its sale in 2002.
Mr. Reinhart, as Chairman, now dedicates most of his time to the Maya Relief Foundation, which undertakes high-impact projects that encourage, teach and generate economic self-reliance amongst impoverished indigenous families in Mexico and Guatemala.
Mr. Reinhart has served as a Board member for numerous companies and organizations.