Your guide to luxury coastal homes in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL.
I am a luxury Realtor and the CEO of The Volen Group in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. I specialize in the marketing and sale of high-end coastal properties, using a background in search technology and digital asset management to maximize property visibility for my clients. By combining personal service with a technical understanding of how buyers find homes online today, I help luxury sellers achieve superior market positioning and results.
Experience
- 2019 — PresentFounder / CEO / Realtor
The Volen Group, Keller Williams Luxury International
Founder and CEO of a top-performing luxury real estate team serving Northeast Florida. Consistently ranked in the Top 5 of The Jacksonville Business Journal’s List of Top Large Residential Real Estate Teams since 2021.
#1 in sales volume in Ponte Vedra Beach (2021—2024).
- 2015 — 2019Realtor
Ponte Vedra Club Realty
Represented buyers and sellers in the Florida beach market, leveraging technical search expertise to improve property visibility.
- 2013 — 2014Taxonomist
CNN
Hired as a specialist to build a digital content categorization project, integrating Lexis-Nexis taxonomies into a massive ontology for global news distribution.
Built taxonomy for CNN Digital.
- 2007 — 2011Owner
Allforgolf.com
Managed daily operations, digital marketing, and software product management for a drop-ship ecommerce business.
- 2002 — 2008Senior Digital Asset Manager
CNN
Served as the key product liaison for a digital archive project containing over 3 million assets and a 27,000-keyword taxonomy.
- 2000 — 2002Group Product Manager
AOL
Managed high-profile products including Web Search powered by Google and the Open Directory Project (ODP).
Directed re-release of Web Search powered by Google.
- 1999 — 2000Chief Taxonomist
Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
Led the world’s largest human-edited directory of the web, overseeing a community of 900,000 volunteer editors.
Managed 1M+ web categories.
Recent writing
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