Fathom Holdings Inc. has appointed highly-experienced real estate industry executive Steve Murray to its board of directors. Murray will serve on the Company's Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and succeeds Chris Bennett who served on the Company's board since 2019. Murray has nearly 50 years of experience in the residential brokerage industry.

Murray is a Senior Advisor to HW Media and Co-Founder of REAL Trends, a leading source of information, news, and analysis for the real estate industry. Murray is also the co-founder and partner of REAL Trends Consulting, a trusted advisor in the residential brokerage industry since 1987 with expertise in valuation, mergers and acquisitions, business analytics and senior management consulting. REAL Trends Consulting has completed more than 4,200 client assignments for brokerage firms in the last 36 years and has closed over 900 brokerage mergers and acquisitions with aggregate value exceeding $13 billion.

Murray has testified on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission and National Association of REALTORS® as a qualified expert in the residential brokerage industry. Murray has authored four books on the valuation of residential brokerage companies and provided training to the executives and affiliates of RE/MAX®, LLC, Coldwell Banker®Real Estate LLC, CENTURY 21®Real Estate LLC, Prudential Real Estate Affiliates Inc., and Keller Williams®Realty Inc., among others. Murray speaks frequently at industry conferences on trends in the housing and residential brokerage industries and has assisted national, regional, and local real estate companies in strategic and business planning.

He graduated from Marshall University with a BBA in Statistics and Organizational Behavior.