Pictured: Left to right (top): Jenny Villamar, Cathy Rivera, Jessica Ballerino, Belkis Gomes, Jade Sanchez, Kim Morton, James Hall, Nelsa Rivera, Christina Gregory, Lluvia Rivera, Courtney Lynn, Annalise Proctor, Kelsey Jones.
Left to right (bottom): Kevin Patel, Eddie Rivera, Carlos Gregory.

Innovation Management, a community and association management services company specializing in large-scale associations and communities, has put together a team of elite, Orlando real estate professionals. The team was selected based on their superior leadership ability, their skills in adapting to challenges, and their dedication to innovation.

The team was brought together and is continuously motivated by their desire to build a true servant leadership culture to add value to team members and the communities and partners that they work with. The team says that they hope to continue to “have the opportunities to strategically and steadily grow to strengthen trust and build relationships with our clients and communities by continually seeing where we can add value. Our extensive and well-rounded experience within our organization ensures that we will continually push the bar in overall performance. We value the partnerships and relationships we cultivate. These relationships continually forge the quality and level of superior and innovative services we provide our clients and are able to provide references to any of our partners or clients on request.”

Innovation Management was founded in 2016 by Eddie and Nelsa Rivera with industry veteran and widely respected Kim Morton as its VP of operations. The company services Fortune 500 home-builders in ground-up projects and established communities and clubs. The organization is minority- and veteran-owned with offices in Longwood and Lake Nona.

“People are everything,” says Carlos Gregory, founder of Therealfund, a real estate investment firm that also acquired an interest in Innovation Management and Central Florida Realty Experts. “At the end of the day, people appreciate how much you care. As long as we can add value to our team and show our clients that we care, we’ll grow.”

One of the company’s first major projects was Windsor at Westside. They were brought in to help provide structure and synergy to the failing team. Innovation Management was able to save the food and beverage operations after Windsor at Westside had lost its liquor license and the developer in the area was having to fund a very large deficit. Within the first year, the team was able to save the liquor license and greatly increase the food and beverage revenue along with the lifestyle activity revenue, helping to reduce the deficit by $950,000 to the partially-built community.

Their other current projects include:

• Del Webb Orlando – Active adult lifestyle communities with a full event calendar and more than 40 different interest groups and clubs, as well as a community tavern.
• Midtown Master Association – Located near Daryl Carter and Palm parkways (Dr. Phillips community).
• Ruby Lake Community – Dr. Phillips community with lifestyle services and maintenance program included.
• They also have plans to work on the new Del Webb communities breaking ground.

“The commonality among all of the businesses revolves around adding value,” notes Eddie Rivera, one of the co-founders of Innovation Management. “We knew we were better together, but our guiding principle is that we must never forget why we started and that is to add value into each other’s lives, our team’s lives, and the lives of our clients. The amount of money the businesses make will be a result of the value we add and not the other way around.”