Founder Bios
David Dill
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mark R. Linné, MAI, CRE, CAE, ASA, FRICS
Chief Strategic Officer
Leland B. Trice, SRA
Chief Information Officer
David Dill
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
David Dill has worked in the real estate industry for 20 years. His entrepreneurial spirit began with a career in analyzing and purchasing private loans on the secondary market. After building a significant portfolio, David investigated several other areas of investment, specifically amassing commercial property.
David is a visionary, imagining the art of the possible and taking the necessary calculated risks to nurture that vision to fruition. He has had great success in assembling parcels for specific purchasers, and selling to such anchor businesses as McDonald’s and Amoco. His real estate investments range from single residents to larger apartment complexes to commercial real estate development ventures.
David also has extensive relationships within the national banking industry. He has managed diverse bank portfolios and has profound intuition of lender expectations of outside vendors, giving him a unique perspective on managing such relationships well.
In 1996, at a time when other appraisal companies were closing their doors, David created Synergy Appraisal Services, built on a foundation of unparalleled service. Synergy continued to flourish and grow, with each year exceeding the last. Synergy survived the volatile market swings, adapting and diversifying, ever-mindful of strategically positioning the Company for continued growth and a bright future.
In 2008, Synergy Appraisal Services merged with Rocky Mountain Valuation Services, and Trice Valuation to form Valuescape LLC, a Delaware company, headquartered in Lakewood CO, with nearly 100 employees performing residential and commercial appraisal services nationwide. Most recently, ValueScape entered a strategic partnership with MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, to combine services in offerings to a wider range of clients to provide alternative property valuation solutions.
Mark R. Linné, MAI, CRE, CAE, ASA, FRICS
Chief Strategic Officer
Mark Linné has a varied background in all facets of valuation. He has been active in the development of adaptive valuation technologies including automated valuation models (AVMs) and Interactive Valuation Models (IVM™). More recently, Mr. Linné has lead the development of two products that harness ValueScape’s proprietary STAT technology: Valuation Navigator™ a Realtor-centric valuation tool, and agriSTAT™, an interactive and Appraiser-centric product that incorporates patent-pending technology. Mr. Linné has been a proponent of keeping appraisers at the heart of the valuation process, empowering them with valuation modeling technology to enhance their value to the market.
In 2006, Mr. Linné lead the development effort to create the most robust AVM/GIS project in the nation for Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA), encompassing a four-state valuation system that empowers appraisers to integrate GIS and valuation modeling techniques for the largest agri-business lender in the nation.
Mr. Linné has been very active in valuation modeling standards, and was asked by GSE Freddie Mac in 2006 to author an Interactive Valuation Modeling (IVM) standard for appraisers. He has been very active in professional service to the appraisal field and serves on the Appraisal Journal Review Board and has previously served as Vice Chairman of this Board. Mr. Linné has served on numerous committees, workgroups and task forces for the Appraisal Institute. He presently serves the Institute as its representative to the Joint Industry Task Force on Automated Valuation Models (JITFAVM), where he chairs the Standards and Testing Work Group. He additionally serves as the Institute’s representative to the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), a unit of the Mortgage Bankers Association. He additionally serves the Appraisal Institute as a member of the Commercial Data Storage Standards Work Group; a member of the Commercial Appraisal Report Standards Work Group (CARS); one of the ten members of the Technology/GIS Work Group, one of the five team members for its AVM Committee, and has served as an international representative to other organizations and forums on behalf of the AI, including the Conference on International AVM Practice with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
In January 2006, Mr. Linné was appointed by the AI Board of Directors to head their new Shared Interest Group on Technology and Appraisal Practice, a SIG that focuses on GIS, Data Standards, Valuation Models and related issues. In July 2007, Mr. Linné presented, on the SIG’s behalf, to the Appraisal Institute’s 75th Anniversary conference, focusing on Cool Tools/Cool Trends with President-Elect Wayne Pugh.
In July 2006, Mr. Linné was elected by the Board of Directors of MBA’s MISMO affiliate to chair its Commercial Appraisal Work Group, defining and constructing the electronic appraisal to support e-mortgages.
Mr. Linné has been active in the field of Geographic Information, including presentations before URISA’s Integrating GIS/CAMA Conference, and service as a member of the Publications Committee of the Urban Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) the nation’s leading GIS association. He has been invited to speak before every relevant educational or outreach venue, including the Washington AVM Symposium, Appraisal Institute’s 75th Anniversary Conference; RealComm, FNC’ AppraisalPort Conference; IAAO International Conference on Assessment Admin-istration; AI Government Affairs Conference; IAAO Councils and Sessions Conference; Pan Pacific Conference on Valuation (keynote); Valuation 2004; Valuation 2006 (keynote and moderator); American Society of Real Estate, Cash Flow Conference, Colorado Law and Assessment Conference; Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and numerous others.
Mr. Linné has been active in both writing and lecturing, and has authored numerous articles on valuation modeling, statistical analysis, geographic information and data standards, and the role of the valuation professional in the future, including those for The Appraisal Journal, Valuation Insights and Perspectives, AppraisalBuzz, Assessment Digest and the Colorado Real Estate Journal, and was the recipient of the Donehoo Award for best article on assessment. A Guide to Appraisal Valuation Modeling and Practical Applications in Appraisal Valuation Modeling, two textbooks co-authored by Mr. Linné, were both finalists for the prestigious Schmutz Award for best book on appraisal in 2003 and 2004. Mr. Linné is the Editor of a forthcoming technical text on valuation and geographic information, entitled Visual Valuation, published by The Appraisal Institute.
Mr. Linne is an instructor with the Appraisal Institute, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the International Association of Assessing Officers, among others. Mark holds virtually every major designation available to valuation professionals, including the Counselor designation from the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE); the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute; the Certified Assessment Evaluator (CAE) designation from the International Association of Assessing Officers; and the Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) from the American Society of Appraisers. Mr. Linné received the honor of being named an Eminent Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) in 2005, the highest honor afforded only the top one percent of members of the world’s largest valuation organization, in recognition of his body of work and contribution to the field of valuation.
Additionally, Mr. Linné was nominated by Colorado Governor Bill Owens in 2000 to the Colorado State Board of Assessment Appeals, and was re-nominated in 2002 and confirmed by the Colorado Senate. Mr. Linné received his undergraduate degree in Business from the University of Colorado.
Leland B. Trice, SRA
Chief Information Officer
Since 1985, Mr. Trice has been a leader in the residential and commercial appraisal valuation services industry. In 1987 he co-founded Trice Appraisal, Inc. and then in 1995 became the sole proprietor of Trice Valuation Services, LLC, where he developed hands-on software programs for appraisers in the valuation process with new technology to enhance their value to the market.
Mr. Trice has worked in concert with Valuescape’s STAT-powered technology team to development a variety of technologies that power the company’s patented IVM™ products. Working from the company’s Maryland office, Mr. Trice presently directs the Information Technology aspects of the firm.
Mr. Trice has been a Litigation Consultant and Expert Witness for 18 years, has been an instructor at Wor-Wic Community College for Appraisal Topics and FutureValue, LLC, has moderated numerous panels at appraisal industry events, and current serves on the Board of Directors for Salisbury University Foundation.
Mr. Trice’s professional affiliations include:
- Appraisal Institute: SRA Member / MAI Candidate
- 1998, 1999: Young Advisory Council (YAC)
- 2001: Leadership Development Advisory Council (LDAC)
- 2002: LDAC – Discussion Leader
- 2003: LDAC – Vice Chair
- 2004: LDAC – Chair
- 2004: Long Range Planning Committee
- 2002 – 2004: Grievance Committee – Chair
- 2004-2008: AI Reports Development Team – (Chair 2004-2005)
- National Association of Realtors: GRI designation
- Maryland Certified General Appraiser: #04-3222
- Delaware Certified General Appraiser: #X1-0000100
- Virginia Certified General Appraiser: #4001 002868
- Maryland Real Estate Broker: #21567
- HUD Approved Appraiser for Maryland and Delaware