As Chief Technology Officer for MRED, Chris Haran is responsible for driving the strategic vision of a leading MLS organization through technology, and bringing together people, ideas and resources to be innovators.
Prior to taking on the CTO role, Haran worked his way up through various levels of the marketing and operations departments on the real estate brokerage side of the industry. In supporting agents in their quest to adopt new technologies, Haran learned how to break down disruptive concepts into why they mattered to future business and helped to overcome the fear of the new.
In his current role, Haran will use customer demand discovered through focus groups and industry insight to deliver the products and services and develop the strategy to keep MRED at the forefront, including the evolution of the top-rated MLS system, Connect MLS. In addition, MRED will be stepping up their Research and Development efforts, looking into applications for blockchain, voice recognition, artificial intelligence and much more.
Haran earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2005. His most watched shows include Cars, Cars 3, Dinosaur Train and Little Einsteins. Yes, he and his wife have a toddler.
