AMEA Professional Members
Welcome the AMEA’s Newest Member and First Member of the NEW Professional Member AMEA Designation!
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About Russ Hilk and DataRef
I began my journey in this industry as a used machinery auctioneer in 2002. I eventually started an auction software company in 2011 and sold it in 2019 to a company that would eventually be publicly traded on the LSE. Going back to machinery auctions and used machinery sales after I sold my software company I was a regular user of DatRef. When the opportunity presented itself to get back into software, inside an industry where I had experience, I jumped at the opportunity. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you and seeing many of you in Nashville. As president of DataRef I am excited to be joining the AMEA at this year's Appraisers’ forum. We are not coming to sell our services. We are seeking valuable insights from seasoned M&E appraisers to help us optimize DataRef to provide meaningful results with easy execution. With your input, we can create a service that delivers a valuable tool for appraisers. We have prices and data on 600,000+ machines spanning 30+ years and we want to know how you can use it. Our goal is to make your entire valuation process easier, faster, and more accurate. This year we are undertaking a ground up rebuild of DataRef and your opinions matter to us. "The Book" was founded in 1994 by a publisher with the goal of providing an accurate and up-to-date monthly printed price guide with information on used industrial machinery and equipment. Over the years the data was sent to users on 3-1/2" floppy disks, then DVD and finally moved online around 2003 with the name DataRef. Today, DataRef offers the most comprehensive and accurate dataset in the industry, with over 600,000 searchable data points collected from auctions across North America. Industries covered include: Machine Tools, Hi-Tech & Medical, Printing & Textile and Food & Pharma. With our new leadership, we plan to take it to the next level. We will expand our product offerings across all covered industries to include more data, from more auctions, covering more sources and we will be releasing it more often. On top of that, we will also invest heavily in user experience improvements. With this new technology, appraisers, auctioneers and machinery dealers will have the ability to extract even more accurate and up-to-date values on used industrial machinery. |
Larry Harb
IT Risk Managers 4225 Okemos Rd Okemos, MI 48864 517-381-9909 Larry.Harb@itriskmanagers.com www.ITRiskManagers.com About Larry Harb and IT Risk Managers
Mr. Harb is the Founder of IT Risk Managers, Inc. Started in July of 2000, IT Risk Managers, Inc. is a national niche insurance broker that provides risk management solutions for niche’ industries such as the auction industry, cannabis industry, real estate, technology industry or business that use technology. We are the industry’s premier brokers of Database (Cyber) Insurance. IT Risk Managers is licensed in all 50 States to market all types of Property and Casualty insurance products. Our websites are ITRiskmanagers.com, AuctioneerInsurance.com, ComputerInsurance.com, DatabaseInsurance.com; THCins.com; RECins.com; USDACropIns.com Mr. Harb has over thirty years of experience in the financial services and insurance industries. During his career he has also served as an instructor at Michigan State University and Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Harb holds a Masters of Management degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelors degree from Northern Illinois University. . He co-authored the book Reinventing the Retail Bank published in 1994. He is a Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist and the 2020 Michigan State Ringman Champion. He has written numerous articles and is a frequent guest speaker at industry conferences. |
