the team MITCHELL & WHALE-BROKERAGE OF THE YEAR BY NORAH BLACK, DIRECTOR, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS, IBAO PHOTOS BY JASON GORDON M itchell & Whale is more of a start-up than your typical brokerage. Their not-so-secret secret is a laser focus on developing talent, which is how they secured their Brokerage of the Year win following their Innovator of the Year award the year prior. President Adam Mitchell and VP of Operations Amanda Ketelaars envision a marketing and talent engine to beat out the competition. "That's our general playbook," says Adam. "All the leads and all the best people to slowly build that winning platform." WWW.IBAO.ORG 27 JUNE 2019http://WWW.IBAO.ORG