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Dave Biggers

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Dave Biggers is the founder and CEO of a la mode, the largest valuation software company in North America. He oversees all aspects of the company's development, launch and marketing of new products and initiatives, strategic alliances and partnerships, and growth and market share acquisition in traditional and new customer areas.

Dave, whose father was in the U.S. Army, was born in Germany. He moved to Ft. Sill, Oklahoma when he was 11, and went on to study engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He worked for his father, an appraiser, during the summer months and during breaks. In 1984, with the help of some fellow engineering friends, he began to work on computer programs for the family business.

Originally intending to write software solely for his father's appraisal business, in 1985 Dave incorporated the company, moving himself and it to Salt Lake City with two partners. Eventually, he moved back to Oklahoma, and bought his partners out of the company. Dave's first software for the family business was a progenitor of a la mode's WinTOTAL suite, which is now used by more than half the appraisers in America.

As part of his vision to bring the appraisal profession into the Internet age, Biggers oversaw the development of its first large-scale EDI server in 1997. With the rollout of an EDI front end for WinTOTAL, a la mode's work - and name - began to appear in front of appraisers' lender clients. In 2002, the company began to capitalize on that new exposure with the launch of its Mercury Network.

Biggers' goal is to continue the company's transition from a software company to a broader service provider, while remaining true to its traditional appraiser customer base. His strategy for market share acquisition in the lender, home inspector and real estate agent markets was visible in 2003 with the continued growth of the Mercury Network and debut of Inspector XSites and Agent XSites, drawing on efficiencies already tested and developed for appraisers.