(November 20, 2007 - Wilkes-Barre, PA)  Al Guari, Vice President of Brokerage for Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services, announced today that three new agents would be joining their team.

Christopher M. Draus, a recent licensee with experience in development of residential subdivisions and business operations, will be based out of the Williamsport office. Draus, an MBA graduate of Wake Forest University as well as University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy, is the owner of  several businesses that include real estate development, managerial/sales training development, and retail agricultural business activities. He is married and lives with his wife, Shannon in Bloomsburg. 

Jennifer Troutman, also hired to work out of the Williamsport office, is a Central Pennsylvania native and an honors graduate of Bloomsburg University. Troutman has extensive experience in sales and management, most recently working as the Office Manager for art galleries in Sunbury and Selinsgrove, where she gained experience in negotiating sale and purchase prices and contracts, organizing marketing efforts, and managing contacts.

Joe Cummings has rejoined the brokerage team at Mericle after working most recently for Mark Realty Co. in Scranton. Cummings, former Community Relations Director for the Scranton-Times Tribune, is looking forward to strengthening his community ties and contacts all over Northeast PA. Cummings is Vice President of the North Pocono School District Board of Education and is on the Board of Directors for Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19. He is also a member of the Pa School Board. In addition to this, Joe is an active committee member of the Steamtown Marathon Association, is a Volunteer Coordinator for the Nationwide PGA Golf Tournament and Race for the Cure, and regularly volunteers at St. Peter’s Cathedral Church in Scranton, and at St. Eulalia’s Church annual summer picnic.

Created in 1993 to offer highly targeted marketing, sales, and leasing services to owners of commercial, industrial, and retail properties, Mericle Brokerage is a division of Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services, a full-service company providing constructive and creative real estate solutions.