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Frank Main, chief expertise officer for the nation’s second-largest a number of itemizing service, died unexpectedly on April 27, forsaking a shocked actual property group in mourning. He was 52.

Brian Donnellan, CEO of Shiny MLS introduced Main’s passing on LinkedIn Monday afternoon.

“It’s with nice disappointment that I share some sudden information with the actual property group concerning the lack of one in every of our beloved colleagues,” Donnellan wrote.

“This previous Thursday, Shiny MLS Chief Know-how Officer Frank Main handed away all of a sudden. Our hearts are along with his spouse Aisha, their kids, and their prolonged household. Please preserve them in your ideas.”

Main joined Shiny MLS, with greater than 98,000 subscribers throughout six states and Washington, D.C., within the Mid-Atlantic area, in October 2018 as its first CTO, in keeping with his LinkedIn profile.

Main labored at Freddie Mac for seven years beginning in 1997, adopted by almost 10 years at USAA, after which shorter stints at Capital One, PenFed Credit score Union and Amazon-as-a-Service platform supplier Amify earlier than going to Shiny.

“Frank was deeply influential in the actual property business due to his many contributions, large experience, and professionalism, however above all else we are going to keep in mind his kindness, integrity and dedication,” Donnellan stated.

Frank Main 1985 yearbook picture | Supply: Ancestry

“Fairly merely, he was one in every of our most admired and treasured colleagues and his loss is felt by each member of Shiny’s group. Like many people, I’ll enormously miss his friendship.”

Frank Kyle Main Sr. was born September 12, 1970, in Christian, Kentucky. He grew up in Springfield, Virginia, the place he attended West Springfield Excessive College. He’s survived by his spouse Aisha Williams and 6 kids.

Brian Donnellan

Requested for his reason for loss of life, Donnellan advised Inman, “We perceive that Frank awakened on Thursday feeling unwell and handed away shortly thereafter.”

“Frank will first be remembered as a buddy and treasured colleague,” Donnellan stated.

“Frank completed so many issues in his storied profession – holder of 5 patents, he was actually an excellent man. However past the skilled accomplishments, an important factor we should always all keep in mind Frank for is Frank the individual. Variety, compassionate, caring – he was all of these issues, and he set a sterling instance for us all.”

“[We] all miss Frank terribly, he was one in every of a form,” Donnellan added.

Requested whether or not another person will step into Main’s sneakers as CTO both briefly or completely, Donnellan stated the corporate’s main consideration in the intervening time was to make sure Main’s household has the assist and care they want.

“With that stated, we did wish to reassure people that Shiny has succession and contingency plans to make sure continuity of initiatives and operations — plans that Frank and the management group beforehand put in place,” Donnellan stated.

“We are going to proceed to ship high-quality work that advantages our subscribers, shareholders, brokers and companions like we’ve all the time endeavored to do — to us, that’s the easiest way we are able to honor Frank’s reminiscence and legacy.”

Donnellan’s put up prompted an outpouring of grief from greater than 5 dozen of Main’s colleagues within the business.

Frank Chimento

“Wow! Shocked and saddened to be taught this,” wrote Frank Chimento, co-founder and co-CEO of HomeLendia Mortgage. “Actually beloved my engagements with Frank through the years. [A] very good and sort man.”

Caitlin McCrory | LinkedIn

Caitlin McCrory, vice chairman of business relations at Wherever, wrote, “I’m devastated by this information, and my coronary heart goes out to his household and family members. Frank was a very progressive chief and I beloved his contributions to the RESO Board of Administrators.”

Invoice Spies, product proprietor at IPT Associates, echoed the ideas of many when he wrote, “That is extremely unhappy. Frank was some of the gracious, clever, educated and supportive managers I ever labored with. His calm demeanor and enduring smile can be remembered.”

Jon Coile

Jon Coile, vice chairman of MLS and business relations at HomeServices of America and a member of Shiny’s Government Committee, reminisced about Main’s first assembly with Shiny’s board of administrators.

“I keep in mind Frank’s first assembly with the Shiny board, explaining some actually difficult expertise difficulty that was method, method over our heads with an analogy about an outdated pickup truck leaking oil or one thing loopy like that,” Coile wrote.

“It was really an excellent analogy that made all of it make sense however rattling it, I can’t keep in mind the small print. I’m so mad as a result of I can’t simply decide up the telephone and ask Frank what the small print had been of that silly pickup truck that I can’t keep in mind. In fact I’m simply so unhappy that we misplaced an excellent soul, a vibrant mind, and a peaceful and peaceable chief. Frank could also be gone however he has left an enormous mark on our future.”

In June 2020, Main despatched a message to staffers amid unrest surrounding the loss of life of George Floyd, which Inman subsequently printed. He urged the actual property business to work towards “reaching secure, inclusive neighborhoods that thrive with equitable alternatives for everybody no matter race, coloration or creed.”

“In actual property, we’ve extra energy than most different sectors to create communities and alternatives for ourselves and our neighbors to have discussions, ‘stroll the speak,’ and be the constructive change that results in togetherness and overcomes divisiveness,” he wrote.

Nearly precisely a yr in the past, The Washington Submit profiled Main and Williams’ McLean, Virginia, ranch house, which the couple had customized constructed for his or her household of 9, together with six kids who then ranged in age from 3 to 23, and Main’s mother-in-law. The household moved into the 6,133-square-foot house in 2018 and the information outlet wrote that one in every of Main’s favourite elements of the house was the sunshine all through the rooms.

“I like to sit down within the solar, and I even work outdoors once I can,” Main advised WaPo. “Within the night, we are able to put the fuel hearth outdoors on and the panorama lighting is gorgeous. It appears like a retreat with out having to go away.”

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