Billie Redmond

Billie J. Redmond is President of Coldwell Banker Commercial TradeMark Properties, Inc., a Raleigh based property management, leasing and brokerage services company. She is a native of North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in business. Ms. Redmond is married and has three children.

She worked with Edward Weck and Company, Research Triangle Park, in the International Marketing Division. Ms. Redmond then joined with Don Walston and Alton Smith of Howard Perry & Walston Realty to form a commercial real estate company. Ms. Redmond acquired a majority of the ownership in 1994 and changed the name of the company to TradeMark Properties. In June 2003, TradeMark joined the national affiliation network of Coldwell Banker Commercial and is the largest woman-owned affiliate in the network. TradeMark Properties represents a variety of asset and facility management clients, with Ms. Redmond maintaining the corporate relationship directly with Coldwell Banker Howard Perry & Walston, the City of Raleigh, Centrex Properties and Plaza Associates.

In 1998, she was named the Top Woman in Business in the Triangle, to the Business Leader Impact list in 1999, the Top 25 Women-Owned Businesses in North Carolina, was named Tar Heel of the Week by The News & Observer in 2002, and named a Woman Extraordinaire in 2004 by Business Leader magazine.

Ms. Redmond serves in several community efforts. She served as the 2002-2004 Chair of the Board of Directors of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, an unprecedented extended term. She serves on the Executive Committee of Communities in Schools of Wake County, Research Triangle Regional Partnership, Kids’n Communities Foundation, WakeMed Hospital system, and Paragon Bank. In 2002-2003, Ms. Redmond served on the Fayetteville Street Revisioning Committee and continues to serve on the Convention Center Steering Committee. She was previously a Board of Directors member for Triangle Family Services, North Carolina State University Humanities and Social Sciences Board, the Board of Directors of Wake Education Partnership, Habitat for Humanity Board Development committee, YWCA Board Development committee, CIAA steering committee and President of the Board of Directors for The Women’s Center. She is a member of the Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women chapter. Billie is a member of Pleasant Grove United Church of Christ and Bible Study Fellowship.