Miami, FL – The Realtors Commercial Alliance of Greater Miami and the Beaches (RCA) has elected Tom Byrne – Esslinger - Wooten, Maxwell, Inc., their 2008 President.  He and the entire Board of Governors were recently installed at The Country Club of Coral Gables. 

Byrne is with Esslinger -Wooten - Maxwell's Commercial Division and is a native of Miami, Florida. He joined EWM in 1998 with the merger of his families' 25-year-old real estate firm, Byrne-Rinehart & Co, which he had operated for the previous ten years. Byrne serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Realtors® and the National Associations of Realtors®. 

His state and national involvement include past chair of the Board Leadership Forum and appointments to the RCA Committee, the Legislative Committee, the Commercial & Investment Committee, the Federal Housing Committee, the Realtor / Attorney Committee, and the Membership Issues Work Group.  He is also a candidate for Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) and a member of the Real Property Section of the Florida Bar.

Locally, Byrne is the immediate past president of the Commercial Industrial Association of South Florida (F/K/A Industrial Association of Dade County), past Director for Habitat for Humanity, the immediate President of Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore operations in Miami-Dade County, a director of the Jerome Baine Educational Foundation, an occasional basketball coach, and an adjunct professor at Florida International University teaching real estate law to undergraduates each spring.

Byrne is a licensed Florida attorney, with a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami, a Masters in Finance from Florida International University and a degree in Economics and Real Estate from Florida State University.

Tom Byrne Elected RCA President, Jose I. Juncadella, SIOR, was elected President-Elect of the Realtors® Commercial Alliance of Greater Miami and the Beaches.

Comprising the remainder of the Realtors® Commercial Alliance Board are 2007 Commercial President J.R. Steinbauer, Jr., Steinbauer Associates, Inc.; Manny Chamizo III, Fortune International Realty; Jay R. Chernoff, Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT; Stephen E. Gaunt, Stephen E. Gaunt, P.A.; Betty B. Gonzalez, CCIM, The Keyes Company, Inc.; Ronald Kohn, CCIM, Kohn Commercial Real Estate, Inc.; Luciano H. Rappa, P.A., Kaizen Realty Partners; Debra Spadafora, RCE, CIPS, Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell, Inc. Commercial Division; Macdonald West, CRE, FRICS, MBA, The Macdonald West Company; and Board Member Specialty Council Chairs:  Annie Betancourt, The Keyes Company, Inc.; Robert “Bob” G. Ferranti, South Atlantic Enterprises, Inc.; Alfredo L. Gonzalez, A & Y Realty Services, LLC; and Viktoria Telek, CCIM, ComReal Miami, Inc. Paul Cauchi serves as the Commercial Vice President for the organization.