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Posted: April 2, 2015
Professional Profile: Robert Authier, 2015
Name: Robert Authier
Title: Chief executive officer/executive vice president
Company: Massachusetts Association of Realtors
Location: 1400 Main St., Waltham, Mass.
Birthplace: Holyoke, Mass.
Education: Bachelor of Science in Communications - Boston University.
First job (outside of real estate): Newspaper reporter with Holyoke Transcript
First job in real estate: 1976 PR director of N.H. Assn. of Realtors. Became CEO in 1981. In 1986 became chief executive officer of Mass. Board. In 1993 became CEO of Virginia Board. 2005 came back to Massachusetts as
CEO.
Hobbies: I have always been into the music world. I play a flute and sing.
Rules to live by that have worked for you: The Golden Rule that too many
people today have never learned. Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you.
Favorite book: "Good to Great" by Jim Collins
Favorite movie: "It's a Wonderful Life"
If you could eat dinner with anyone (living or dead and not related): Franklin D. Roosevelt and or Tony Bennett.
If you were to choose another vocation what would it be? I would have my own band.
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