The creator of Highnote, Mark Choey, was the co-founder of Climb Real Estate, a San Francisco Bay Area-based real estate brokerage known for its innovative business model and technology offerings. Mark led the business strategy and development of CLIMB since its inception in 2007 as a sales group then later as an independent brokerage in 2010 all the way to acquisition in 2016 by Realogy/NRT, the nation’s largest real estate company (Realogy’s brand portfolio includes Better Homes and Gardens, Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Corcoran, ERA and Sotheby’s).