Brock Freeman, SSGB
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Partner
Brock Freeman is a Real Estate Investor and Advisor involved with startups and funds. He has developed leadership in diverse groups of people, building them into highly effective and innovative teams in both Asia and America across technology, finance, sales, and marketing. With a deep history of leveraging technology to improve business results, he believes technology should be used to enable and improve the performance of teams and relationships.
Brock worked in Taiwan as a stock market analyst. In Hong Kong he joined a software startup and built the sales and marketing department where he and his team won early implementations with C-level executives from multiple large Asia based companies. In the U.S. Brock built loan broker origination networks for residential mortgage lenders, most recently as a sales manager. In both instances he led the effort to create repeatable, scalable sales processes, and implement CRM systems.
Brock underwrote and audited loans for several lenders, as well as managed and built the underwriting team for an outsourced loan underwriting firm that serviced lenders such as Glendale Federal Bank. For a fast-growing mortgage lender, he created the technology department, and as IT Director he led a team to build the industry’s first web-based end-to-end loan underwriting, processing, and secondary marketing platform. He also led technology teams at Microsoft and TrueBlue, as well as his own construction software startup, Kosah.
Brock started the monthly PropTech Seattle Open House events, and the Seattle chapter of the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise (FIBREE) . He is a member of the Cascadia Blockchain Council and testified to Washington State House and Senate Committees on behalf of blockchain bills. He is currently a member of the National Small Business Association Leadership Council.
Brock is an avid skier and hiker, is keenly interested in U.S. Taiwan relations, and conversational in Mandarin Chinese.
Brock is certified in Six Sigma, PMP, and Scrum Agile. He holds a BA in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Washington.