GET TO KNOW OUR EXECUTIVE TEAM
The Executive Leadership Team manages the day-to-day activities of the association. This team includes the President, Vice-President of Memberships, Memberships Director, Executive Director and our Board Members.
2024 EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Jordy Clark
president
JORDY CLARK
Jordy started in real estate in 2009 when he was approached by a mentor about going down to San Diego for a few months to renovate houses and surf. This began his real estate career.<p>He served an LDS mission in Chile from 2010 to 2012, returned home and married his wife in 2013. In 2014, he grew bored of working at a local credit union as a loan officer and became a real estate agent.</p>Jordy has been involved in over 600 real estate transactions. He is an active Broker representing Alpine Homes, as well as many clients who are on the path to build wealth in real estate. When Jordy isn’t thinking about real estate, he enjoys time with his wife and two kids (Brinley, age 5 and Noah, age 1) and enjoys being outdoors, especially in Moab, Utah. He currently owns 10 investment properties and fixes and flips 12 houses a year.
GRADEN OSTLER | VP, EXPERIENCE
Graden grew up in Orem, Utah and is now settled down with his family in Vineyard. Graden personally owns and manages 12 doors in Utah County, an estimated 4 million dollars in real estate that generates $60,000 a year in passive income. He is a certified Continuing Education Instructor at the Division, teaching his popular class, ‘Buy and Hold’. He has Personally executed a 1031 exchange and has helped clients do the same. He has been personally investing for over 12 years, has extensive property renovation experience, knows the Utah county rental market very well, which all further qualifies him to help people buy and sell as a Realtor.
T.W. TAYLOR | VP, MEMBERSHIP
T.W. has been a real estate investor in Utah and other states for 20+ years; he is also a licensed general contractor in Utah. Prior to moving to Utah, T.W. spent 22 years in the military serving in several different states and countries. Upon moving back to the states, he began to invest in real estate and has over a dozen properties in several different locations throughout the states. His interests are helping others achieve their goals and dreams, spending time with family and friends, anything outdoors and helping others connect family history with relatives.
CARMEN HALL | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Carmen is a mother of 4 amazing children and has been married for 20 years. She immigrated from South Africa at the age of 17 along with her family, because of this she understands what it is like to start over and work hard to build a future. She readily expresses gratitude for the opportunities this country has given her and for those who selflessly protect the freedoms she enjoys.
MATT ATKINSON | DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL LUNCHEONS
Matt Atkinson has been financing it, fixing it, flipping it, or renting it for over 20 years, having amassed a rental portfolio consisting of 100+ properties valued north of $23M. Add another $5M in flips and well over 30,000 hours of experience and that just about starts to round out the profile.
In addition to educating others how to invest in real estate (MJA REAL Consulting), Matt also owns and operates MJA REAL Property Management and MJA REAL Estate and has been a mortgage lending professional for over 20 years.
Matt served as President of the Utah Valley Real Estate Investors Association (UVREIA) for 10 years, a board member of the Salt Lake Real Estate Investors Association (SLREIA) for 12 years, and has been a member of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) for 8 years and the Utah Association of Mortgage Professionals (UAMP) for 7 years.
STEVE GARRETT | DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
KLAIR GUNN | DIRECTOR, SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING
“Defining Customer Service” is the slogan for this energetic, knowledgeable, optimistic, four (4) decade plus Real Estate Sales Veteran.
Klair and her team have helped countless clients sell, buy and invest by offering a full suite of services that includes land development, new home construction, residential resale, and investment consulting.
In addition to her dedicated professional achievements, Klair has had the opportunity to raise two beautiful daughters that are also involved in the Real Estate Industry. She is a huge NBA fan and loves her Utah Jazz, golf and horses. She also is an avid supporter of her South Jordan Community.”
BEN LAKEY | DIRECTOR, SPONSORSHIPS
Ben began his real estate career flipping homes in 2002. He was deployed with the Utah National Guard in 2006, and after returning home Ben returned to real estate with a few small development projects until the market crashed in 2007. Throughout the recession he worked on distressed asset projects, while also attending Brigham Young University (BYU) Law School from 2010-2012. In 2013, Ben opened his own law firm specializing in real estate law and continued to flip houses, develop land into commercial and residential properties, structure real estate investments, and manage self-storage facilities.
Ben is a principal of DL Asset Management and Build Vacations. Ben’s primary areas of focus are land acquisition, development, and legal affairs. Ben continues to manage his own real estate investments. As an attorney, Ben handles real estate development and investments.
BOARD MEMBERS
JEFF BREGLIO | BOARD
Jeff is an attorney in Salt Lake City, practicing asset protection, real estate, corporate succession and estate planning law. He has been an attorney since 1995. He has also been a real estate investor since 2000, a real estate agent for 8 years, is currently an escrow officer and real estate entrepreneur and educator. He is a regular speaker, locally and nationally, to various groups on legal issues of real estate investment, self-direction, asset protection and corporate liability. Jeff is a board member and attorney for the Salt Lake Real Estate Investors Association, been a board member and education coordinator for the Utah REIA, as well as a board member of two non-profit organizations and a Salt Lake City community councilman.
Jeff has created over 800 entities, worked with over 1000 clients and been a part of 1000’s of real estate investment transactions. He began his passion for real estate investing in 2000 when he bought his first flip property. He currently has both residential and commercial investment properties.
Jeff is a former competitive marathoner and triathlete, even having completed an Ironman. He’s also proud to say that he’s published 3 novels and is working on his fourth. His team at Breglio Law Office is always willing to help you succeed.
KRISTIN HACKING | BOARD
Kristin was born and raised in Vernal, Utah. She moved to the big city in 2006 to fulfill a full-ride softball scholarship at Salt Lake Community College.
Kristin is the epitome of a Property Management Professional. Accumulating 12 years of Management experience, she specializes in managing both single family and multi-family portfolios, all while bringing on new owners into management. Kristin has gained valuable experience and knowledge being an active part of groups such as UVREIA, NARPM, The Utah Apartment Associations and holds a Utah Professional Rental Operator Designation. Kristin has served on the board of UVREIA for going on her 3rd year.
Kristin has been a member of the MJA Real Group team since 2019. Kristin also holds an active real estate license since 2015 and specializes in selling tenant occupied homes, assisting in acquiring additional rental income properties for investors, and analyzing rentals for the best possible cash flow.
KELLY OVARD | BOARD
As a military spouse, Kelly Ovard traveled the country and world for 20 years before settling in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Each place she moved her family, they bought, sold, and rented – and in doing so became very familiar with the stresses changing homes creates. Her realtors became invaluable resources to help ease that stress and ensure the real estate part of the move became as simple as possible. When she settled in Utah in 2012 it was only natural for her to become involved in real estate as well- this time as an investor herself, and a resource for others looking to invest, as the buying and selling process is unique from an investors perspective.