Strong Showing for RE/MAX Leaders on 2025 Swanepoel Power 200 List

RE/MAX on the 2025 SP200 List

W. Erik Carlson
2025 Ranking: #22
Role: CEO RE/MAX Holdings

What T3 Sixty said… Carlson joined the nation’s third largest franchise brand, RE/MAX Holdings, as CEO in November 2023. He has led the company to a return to profitability in 2024 (after seeing a net loss in 2023). In his role, the 28-year veteran of the DISH Network Corporation oversees RE/MAX’s global franchise network and its mortgage brokerages within the U.S. under the Motto Mortgage brand. Carlson is also on the RE/MAX Holdings board of directors.

Christopher Alexander
2025 Ranking: #55
Role: President, RE/MAX Canada

What T3 Sixty said… Alexander has helmed Canada’s largest real estate franchise brand since 2021. As president of RE/MAX Canada, he oversees operations in all Canadian provinces but Quebec, which remains independent, although he works closely with their leaders to build comprehensive brand strategy. Alexander, who began his career as a RE/MAX sales associate in 2010, is the grandson of Frank J. Polzler, who co-founded the first RE/MAX region in Atlantic Canada in 1980.

James O’Bryon
2025 Ranking: #41
Role:  CEO RE/MAX Gold Nation

What T3 Sixty said… O’Bryon has been at RE/MAX Gold Nation as CEO for more than 25 years. In that time, he has grown the company immensely from its Northern California base. The brokerage is part of Gold Nation, for which O’Bryon oversees over 2,400 agents, who do over $12 billion in annual sales, operating in California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, and Washington. In 2024, the company launched Gold Capital Partners, allowing agents and staff to own a part of Gold Nation.

Chad Ochsner
2025 Ranking: #49
Role: Broker-Owner, RE/MAX Alliance

What T3 Sixty said… Since 1999, Ochsner has owned Denver-based brokerage RE/MAX Alliance, which has nearly 700 agents who do approximately $3 billion in annual sales. He is a second-generation Realtor who has also served as a director of the Colorado Association of Realtors and has been on the board of the Denver Metro Association of Realtors and REcolorado (Denver’s MLS), as well as the advisory boards of Realtor.com, Zillow and Trulia. Ochsner also owns mortgage and insurance companies and is active in land development.

Brenda Tushaus
2025 Ranking: #62
Role: CEO, RE/MAX Results

What T3 Sixty said… Tushaus manages RE/MAX Results whose agents in Minnesota and western Wisconsin do nearly $6 billion in annual sales. In 2024, the firm’s founder John Collopy retired and promoted his daughter Suzanne Bushard to the new role of president to work in tandem with Tushaus. Prior to becoming CEO in 2018, Tushaus held a variety of positions over 16 years with the company, most recently as chief operating officer.

Keith Myers
2025 Ranking: #136
Role: President, RE/MAX One (a RE/MAX Gold Nation company)

What T3 Sixty said… A real estate broker since 1984, Myers is President of the Southern California-based RE/MAX One. He oversees 450 agents at a firm he has led since 2018. In 2018, the firm joined RE/MAX Gold Nation to expand its reach in California and Nevada. Myers, a four-decade industry veteran, has also co-owned and been a managing partner of Landmark Escrow Inc. since 1998.