Mr. Hoemke is an entrepreneur in the property tax software and finance industries. He is the founder of CrowdReason and CorrelationAdvisors, companies acquired by Avalara in 2021. He is an executive with over thirty years of developing tools to help ease property tax compliance burdens and expertise in ensuring fair tax assessments. His mission is to positively impact organizational efficiencies and help elevate the role of their property tax teams with high-quality products and services.

In the valuation space, Mr. Hoemke holds a designation with the American Society of Appraisers as an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) in Business Valuation. Mr. Hoemke specializes in valuing businesses, including tangible and intangible assets. Mr. Hoemke has handled issues involving valuation for financial reporting, fairness opinions, bankruptcy, corporate disputes, tax reporting, and dispute-related matters. He has experience in a variety of industries, including telecommunications (i.e., cable, wireline, and wireless infrastructure and businesses), real estate (commercial and industrial), regulated and independent power facilities (i.e., wind, geothermal, nuclear, natural gas, coal, and hydropower), air transportation (i.e., passenger carriers, cargo carriers, and fleet), and manufacturing (i.e., cement plants and automotive assembly plants).

In the technology space, Mr. Hoemke designs, leads, and manages teams for various enterprise and mid-market SaaS-based property tax applications for Avalara, Inc. These projects include TotalPropertyTax, an enterprise-level web-based property tax reporting, value tracking, and bill payment system, and MetaTasker, a SaaS-based workflow automation application for semi-structured documents (i.e., governmental notices, bills, etc.),

Formerly Mr. Hoemke was a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps and Standard & Poor’s and a Partner at Ernst & Young. Mr. Hoemke started his career as an Industrial and Utility Appraiser at Taylor County Assessor's office in Abilene, Texas.
 

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