Chicago Title’s Resort Division Selects Executive Director

March 25, 2008 by Timeshare News 

San Diego, CA — March 25, 2008 – Chicago Title Company, one of the timeshare industry’s most respected title insurance and escrow providers, has recently announced the appointment of an industry veteran to head up its National Timeshare Division.

Joe Goodman, Sr. VP and JoAnn Lockard, Esq., VP Division Counsel, have selected Grant Miller as Vice President and Executive Director of Chicago Title’s National Timeshare Division. In his new position, Miller will direct the company’s expanding timeshare business, which has become the industry’s leader in providing closing services for traditional deeded and non-deeded timeshare sales throughout the United States.

Says Goodman, “As we prepare to increase our presence in both Canada and Mexico and launch the technology we have developed to create “paperless” closings, we are confident that Grant’s knowledge and experience will be invaluable assets in his new leadership role”.

Miller, who has served for the past five years as President, Affinity Clubs (a division of the Affinity organization), was responsible for all of the Affinity Clubs (Coast to Coast, Good Sam Club, Golf Card International, and Camp Club USA) representing a cumulative membership of nearly 1.5 million families and tens of millions of dollars in annual fee revenue. Prior to his years at Affinity, Grant was with RCI (Resort Condominiums International) where he started his career in 1991. During his 12-year tenure at RCI, he went from call-center manager, to Southeastern Regional Account Executive, to Vice President and Manager of the Preferred Client Group, Global Business Group, and Global Business Marketing Group.

Adds Lockard, “His extensive knowledge of the timeshare industry, coupled with his proven sales and marketing skills, through which he developed client relationships with some of the largest and most respected timeshare developers in the world, makes Grant a perfect fit to manage this division”.


About Chicago Title
A wholly owned company within the family of title companies owned by Fidelity National Financial, Inc (NYSE:FNF), the world’s largest title insurance provider trading at No. 264 on the Fortune 500, Chicago Title Insurance Company is FNF’s largest brand. The National Timeshare Division provides complete title and escrow closing services to every segment of the timeshare industry and has developed products and services to fit the needs of its timeshare clientele. This includes title “certifications” for points and vacation club sales; a state-of-the-art automated inventory control system; digital imaging and Web posting of all sales documents creating the very first “paperless closing” environment for developers; and enhanced technology for its timeshare re-sale department that includes a Web based platform for consumers to open their re-sale escrows on-line. The National Timeshare Division’s entrepreneurial spirit has enabled them to maintain their leadership position in meeting the timeshare industry’s technology needs. The Division’s staff of 65 highly trained professionals have processed more than one million timeshare transactions in the past 23 years and currently handle 7000-10,000 timeshare transactions per month throughout all of its departments, making it the world’s largest timeshare closing entity.

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