Rhett Winchell is President of the Kennedy Wilson Auction Group, the auction division of Kennedy Wilson, Inc. Mr. Winchell is responsible for the oversight of all auction transactions throughout the West Coast.

As President of the Auction Group, Rhett Winchell specializes in new home developments, scattered real property "foreclosure" auctions and Court-related dispositions. Kennedy Wilson’s accelerated Auction Marketing process is for all property types, including single-family residences, multifamily dwellings, land and commercial properties.

Since joining Kennedy Wilson in 1984, the Auction Group, under Mr. Winchell’s leadership, has sold in excess of $5 billion of real estate. Mr. Winchell is currently focusing on the company’s expansion into major markets throughout the United States.

Mr. Winchell is a Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), the highest designation awarded to real estate brokers in the residential field. Only 5% of all real estate brokers have earned this designation. He is also an active member of other professional organizations, and holds various certifications, licenses and memberships.

He attended Los Angeles Valley College and the University of California, Los Angeles, concentrating on real estate course work, including real estate appraisal, practice, economics, finance, law, property management, administration, ethics and investment analysis.

Marty Clouser first joined Kennedy Wilson in July 1986 and is currently the Senior Vice President of the Auction Group. In this capacity, he oversees the procurement, design, implementation and management of all residential auctions. Auctions include all property types such as single family homes, multi-family dwellings, developer projects and scattered bank-owned properties. Mr. Clouser has overseen all phases of the auction process from business development to transaction closing. Mr. Clouser is also an auctioneer.

Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, Mr. Clouser managed new home sales in the Los Angeles area for a real estate consulting firm and is a qualified real estate licensing instructor. In addition to his real estate experience, he worked in the nuclear industry for Southern California Edison and as a Division LPO for the United States Navy.

Linda Redman
Vice President of Auction Operations
Years with Firm: 19
Years in Real Estate: 22

Linda Redman is vice president of auction operations at Kennedy Wilson Auction Group. She is responsible for oversight and management of Kennedy Wilson’s residential real estate auction marketing programs. As soon as a marketing agreement is signed, the operations department takes charge of the auction process, which includes monitoring the response from advertisements to the closing of the last escrow, and everything in between. While with Kennedy Wilson, Redman has been responsible for the oversight and execution of over $300 million of real estate sold through the auction process.

Redman has been named in Barron’s Who’s Who in American Real Estate, the National Reference Institute’s Who’s Who of Women Executives and the American Biographical Institute’s 2,000 Notable American Women.

Light Sayles is a Closing Director for the  Kennedy Wilson Auction Group.  She manages the execution and completion of business and purchase contracts and provides oversight relating to transaction coordination and closings, marketing and administration.  Sayles is responsible for the coordination, staffing and management of the auction day closing process.

 Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, Sayles gained experience in commercial real estate brokerage, sales, marketing and operations management with Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate Advisors.  Her previous experience also includes residential mortgage lending, multifamily property management and leasing as well as marketing for Hines Interests LP for the Dallas Galleria, a mixed-use retail and office development.

Sayles graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX with a degree in business administration and marketing.

Elan Sherman is a project manager with Kennedy Wilson Auction Group. She is responsible for bank-owned, residential scattered auctions throughout the U.S. Sherman implements marketing programs, supervises onsite offices and manages operations for the bank auctions.

Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, Sherman served as a senior marketing executive for various marketing firms, implementing marketing and development strategies. Sherman made her foray into real estate as a litigator handling property loss cases in Chicago, IL.

Sherman holds a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in English and political science from the University of Vermont. She also earned a marketing certificate from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Cullum is Kennedy Wilson Auction Group’s Senior Auctioneer since 1995. In this capacity, he conducts/calls all KW auctions with a team of 7 floormen. Mr. Cullum's vast experience in the auction business brings a great deal of expertise to the Kennedy Wilson Auction Group. Since joining Kennedy Wilson he has called in excess of 350 oral auctions with sales of approximately 1.5 billion in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia.

He began work at his father's auction company as a teenager. His first auction calling was for the selling of automobiles in Southern California, but now he focuses much of his attention to the calling of real property auctions from coast to coast. Dean worked for various governmental agencies throughout the United States and has auctioned both commercial and residential real estate for the RTC, FDIC, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, IRS, HUD and private contractors representing the governmental agencies.

Mr. Cullum holds an AA from Mt. San Antonio College and is a graduate of Mendenhall School of Auctioneers. He holds real estate licenses in 4 states.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, AND MEMBERSHIPS:
National Auctioneers Association, California Auctioneers Association, So. California Auctioneers Association, Active Auctioneers Association, Auctioneers License in CA, AZ, TX, OK, AR, MA, NY, PA, NJ, CT, and VA.

Michael Haines is a transaction coordinator with Kennedy Wilson Auction Group. He specializes in working with escrow, lenders, the seller and the sales office to track and coordinate the closing of auction sales for new home developments and scattered real property auctions.

Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, Haines was a transaction coordinator at Prosperity Homes, where he assisted in the closing of over 200 real estate transactions. His more than 10 years in real estate includes such diverse assignments as escrow assistant and onsite escrow coordinator for Fidelity Title, and secondary marketing assistant for Trust One Mortgage.

Haines received his Bachelor’s of Administration at California State University Fullerton, where his area of concentration was finance.

David C. Rutgers
Vice President
Years with Firm: 1
Years in Real Estate: 32

David Rutgers is vice president of Kennedy Wilson Auction Group. In just one year, he has sold $70 million of residential real estate in nine public auctions in California and Arizona.

Since 1987, Rutgers has worked for three nationwide auction companies. He developed a format to sell commercial properties at auction for multiple institutional owners on a national scale, with the first nationwide auction held in 1989. In the early 1990s, Rutgers sold over 2,000 condominiums on the East Coast in successful public auctions. In the mid-1990s, he was in charge of business development for Ross Dove/Grubb & Ellis, and sold commercial properties valued over $500 million for the FDIC, RTC, banks and life insurance companies at nationwide auctions.

Rutgers has been a licensed California real estate broker since 1976. He is a member of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) and is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM). He is a graduate of Lafayette College, where he majored in business, and of the Missouri School of Auctioneering. He completed some graduate level studies at New York University, as well as three MAI appraisal courses.

Jeff Powell brings more than 18 years of real estate development, project finance and auction experience to Kennedy Wilson. Since 1989, Mr. Powell has been responsible for the acquisition, financing, entitlement, construction build-out, and for-sale and auction marketing of over 50 distressed residential subdivisions, to include both single family, as well as high-density multi-family, developments.

In addition, Mr. Powell has been responsible for the auction marketing of thousands of REO properties on both the West and East coasts.

His management skills, including his ability to initiate, evaluate, negotiate and execute residential development transactions, as well as his thorough knowledge and proven track record in residential development have resulted in his excellent reputation within the real estate industry.

In addition to his auctioneer’s bond, Jeff holds licenses from the State of California as a General Contractor and Real Estate Agent. Jeff graduated with Honors from the University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the prestigious Reppert's Auction School located in Auburn, Indiana, and he holds a construction management certificate from Colorado State University.
 

Stephen Powell joined Kennedy Wilson in 2007, and is responsible for business development. He has worked in all sectors of residential real estate including on site sales, project management, sales management, and real estate development. Stephen was the 'Sales Person of the Year' for Richmond American Homes in 2002, in the Denver market, and has extensive experience with new home builders. He has worked with two nationwide auction companies since 1995.

Stephen holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Southern California. He has an Associate Brokers License from the state of Colorado, and has held Real Estate Sales Person License from the state of California since 1997.