Stan Humphries is Chief Economist at Zillow.com. Prior to joining Zillow, Stan spent five years at Expedia.com where he ran a team responsible for finding innovative ways to use data, building systems for personalization, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection. Before Expedia, Stan served as a researcher and faculty member at the University of Virginia, and was previously with NASA where he negotiated international science agreements. Stan has also served in the United States Peace Corps, where he taught physics and chemistry classes in West Africa. Stan has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Economics from Davidson College, a Masters of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia.

Since graduating from Harvard summa cum laude, Alison Rogers has been a reporter, an editor, a real-estate agent, a Wall Street desk jockey, a columnist, a failed flipper, and a landlady. A member of the National Association of Realtors, she currently sells and rents luxury co-ops in Manhattan for the Chelsea-based firm DG Neary. (If you've got $27,500 a month, the firm has an apartment for you!) Her book, Diary of a Real Estate Rookie, was called "a valuable guide for rookie buyers" by AOL/Walletpop, "beach-read fun" by the New York Observer, and "witty" by Newsweek.

Carolyn Said is a staff writer at The San Francisco Chronicle specializing in business. She seeks to interweave people’s personal stories with statistical analyses to illuminate sweeping economic trends. In covering the foreclosure crisis, she has taken readers behind the scenes with homeowners losing their residences, lenders who wrote subprime mortgages, deputy sheriffs doing evictions, real estate agents selling bank-owned properties, police officers patrolling neighborhoods blighted by vacant homes, and investors seeking to profit from plunging home values.

During 12 years at The Chronicle, Said has covered the dot-com rise and fall, the California energy crisis, the corporate malfeasance scandals, and the human fallout from economic downturns. Her work has received numerous awards from professional journalism associations, as well as from the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the California Reinvestment Coalition.

Christopher M. George is the founder and President/CEO of CMG Mortgage, a mortgage banking and brokering company headquartered in Northern California. CMG is one of the largest and most respected mortgage companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country. Since founding the company in his garage in 1993, Chris has grown CMG into a nationwide company employing roughly 500 professionals in retail and wholesale mortgage lending.
An unwavering commitment to excellence has enabled CMG to set the industry standard for service, speed, and competitive pricing within both the retail and the wholesale channels.

CMG is also a leading mortgage industry innovator, and is the creator and sole lender for the revolutionary new Home Ownership Accelerator™ loan, which debuted in 2005.

Chris George is deeply committed to mortgage industry advocacy, and since 1982, has served on various advisory boards within the industry. He currently serves as Secretary for the California Mortgage Bankers Association. In recent years he also served as an advisor on the Western Regional Advisory Board for the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae).

Mr. George has also held active leadership roles on both the Chapter and State level within the California Association of Mortgage Brokers (CAMB), a non-profit trade organization whose goals include strengthening consumer awareness and providing mortgage brokers with programs designed to raise industry standards and customer service. He was awarded the Broker of the Year and Distinguished Service awards in 2003 to honor his advocacy work.

Mr. George is also deeply committed to the future of his home state of California. In 2003, recognizing that a severely broken workers compensation system was strangling California, George co-sponsored a major ballot initiative, supported by Governor Schwarzenegger, aimed at overhauling the system. As a key fundraiser, spokesperson and leader of the initiative committee, he helped the effort gather over 1 million signatures to qualify the initiative. In April 2004, responding to this pressure at the ballot box, legislators passed SB 899, a landmark overhaul of workers compensation.
George is actively involved in several community organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Bay Area Crisis Nursery as well as the Alameda & Contra Costa Food Banks. Chris and his wife, Teresa, are deeply involved with several organizations dedicated to organ transplants for children.
Chris, his wife and four sons reside in Fremont, California.