Senior Leadership Team

 

Budge Huskey
President & Chief Operating Officer
Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC

 

 

 

 

 

Budge Huskey was named president and chief operating officer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC in June 2010. He had spent the previous 12 years in several executive positions with NRT, the nation's largest residential real estate brokerage.

Huskey, who reports to chief executive officer Jim Gillespie, now oversees operational activities supporting approximately 83,000 Coldwell Banker sales professionals in approximately 3,100 franchised offices in 50 countries and territories around the world. He also leads the brand's internal operations and is charged with growing the Coldwell Banker brand domestically and internationally.

Huskey began his real estate career as an agent in 1984 with family-owned Huskey Realty where he stayed until joining NRT in 1998 as a branch manager for Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Longwood, Fla. He eventually became a district and regional manager in the organization's Central Florida region before being named in 2004 as president and chief operating officer of NRT's Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate in Florida.

He remained in this position until 2007 when he was promoted to executive vice president of NRT's Coldwell Banker Southeastern region. In this role he oversaw the strategic initiatives of more than 120 Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate and Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage offices in Florida, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Atlanta, which generated annual sales volume in excess of $10 billion dollars. He also was responsible for oversight of NRT's REO Experts, one of the nation's largest REO asset management firms.

Well regarded in the real estate industry, Huskey served as president of the Orlando Association of Realtors, where he was honored as Realtor of the Year, and director and committee chairperson for the Florida Association of Realtors. He won the 2006 Coldwell Banker Chandler Barton Award representing dedication and service to the Coldwell Banker brand.

Huskey is a 1981 graduate of Mercer University who earned an MBA in 1984 from Wake Forest University.