Meet the Team

Dawn’s drive and passion have led her to own three real estate offices located in Chesterfield, Missouri; Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri; and O’Fallon, Illinois as well as a principal owner of a title company she launched early 2019. In addition to ownership in these Market Centers and the title company, she is also the Operating Principal of the O’Fallon, IL Market Center and the General Manager of the Chesterfield, MO Market Center.

Rebecca Shanahan is the VP, Team Financials of Livian, and joined in 2014 as Director of Operations after 15 years of working in finance and operations in real estate and in the private sector.

Becca is a leader who enjoys using data, analytics, care, and candor to help employees, leaders, entrepreneurs, and businesses to achieve their goals. As the VP, Team Financials for Livian, Becca oversees the fiscal operations from 2,000+ real estate transactions each year and over $600 million in sales volume from 30+ real estate teams.

Shaina has established herself as a prominent figure in the real estate industry. Balancing her roles as a mother of three, wife to Bobby Moats, and leader of a top-performing real estate team in Austin, TX, she has achieved significant milestones in her career. In 2014, she was recognized as Rookie of the Year for MC #1 and the city of Austin, having sold 55 homes during her first year as a licensed professional.

Driven by a mission to inspire others to live intentionally and enact positive change, Shaina is dedicated to empowering young professional women and mothers. In early 2023, she joined forces with Vanessa Pollock to co-found Livian Family. As the co-founder of Livian Texas, she leads a team of 35 agents operating across the state and is known for delivering exceptional client service.

For the past seven years, Shaina has served as the “Director of Awesomeness” for Livian Texas, skillfully handling a variety of responsibilities to ensure the team’s success. Her passion for operations and her ability to build thriving businesses have allowed her to compile a decade of real estate expertise. From her involvement with non-profits to nurturing a $100 million real estate team, Shaina has consistently demonstrated her capacity to excel in this competitive field.

Outside of her professional endeavors, Shaina appreciates reading, traveling, dining, and spending quality time with her family. Her enthusiasm and zest for life serve as an inspiration to others, showcasing the potential for success through determination, dedication, and a commitment to living life to its fullest potential.

Shaina will start in this expanded role with Livian on June 5 and will be instrumental in helping Livian continue to ideate, create and refine new systems, tools, models, and workflows to improve the efficiency and output of all of our teams and agents!

Michael Mergell has found his passion in building agents’ businesses new and experienced utilizing his skill set. He gains the most satisfaction in his work celebrating the success of those around him.

As VP of Market Center Teams, he is able to share his success and lessons in expansion. Coming from a new construction background, Michael is passionate about making homeowners’ dreams come true through the renovations and new build he develops for his clients. Completing over a hundred flipped homes, he has shared his knowledge with many agents and investors alike in an effort to help them build wealth.

With more than 21 years experience in the real estate industry, Joe has continuously been recognized as a top producer in his service area of Chicago. He was personally named on the National Association of REALTORS® “Top 30 Under 30”and the Chicago Association of REALTORS® “Top 40 Under 40” lists for his achievement in sales. Joe has led a team, The Zimmerman Group | Livian Chicago, that continues to rank within the Top 1% of the Chicago Association of REALTORS®, and is consistently ranked in the top 100 real estate teams in the six-county Metro areas of Chicago.

Eric Forney supports Livian CEOs in his role as VP of Industry & Innovation. He brings an unrelenting passion and track record of success to his role, where he is focused on increasing market share by helping agents grow their mindset, their production, and their profitability.

In his first year as a full-time agent with Keller Williams, Eric became the top KW agent in Indiana prior to building Indiana’s top-selling team. Eric previously served as an Operating Principal and has been recognized as a top-producing real estate team by RealTrends.

Alie Reynolds, Director of Agent Services, first joined Livian in 2016 as a Listing Manager. Shortly after, Alie was promoted to Director of Agent Services, where she assists new teams and agents with onboarding, training, and systems implementation, and improvement of their current technology and its use.

Alie specializes in using technology as a means of leverage and has a unique understanding of how systems work together. She also works as a KW Labs Advisor masterminding with other Keller Williams Technology Experts across the country on how to improve Keller Williams technology.

Mie Yamashita is the Director of LivLimitless Coaching for Livian. She started in the Market Center where she became a top-performing Keller Williams Productivity Coach.

She has helped generate over $500k in her last year as a Productivity Coach for her two Market Centers, added 160+ agents to her program, helped agents close on 500+ units with over $2.5 Million in agent income, and has helped get 56% of the agents in her coaching program get into regular production.

David is a business builder who is passionate about creating opportunity for those around him, now amplified in his new role where he will be growing real estate leaders and teams and disrupting the real estate industry as a whole! David owns and operates six businesses, including his real estate team TLG Atlanta which joins Livian, and is a national teacher, trainer, and speaker.
In 2008, David graduated from The University of Alabama, after which he began his professional career in a recession and worked multiple jobs at a time to make it through a difficult economy. When he finally started in real estate, he saw the opportunity in the industry to build a business, build wealth, and help others grow. After just seven years in real estate, David has built a top-performing team in one of the leading brokerages in the nation that joins Livian as Livian Atlanta. David has helped create many six-figure income earners in the real estate space and is driven to continue to make an impact on others – in their businesses, finances, and their personal lives.
David joins Livian because of Livian’s “people over profit mentality” – reflected in our mantra that we are 51% culture and 49% profit, along with the scope of opportunity Livian provides for his agents and administrators.
In David’s words, “Being part of a bigger world matters. We all wake up every day fighting the same fight in real estate… Why not fight that fight with the greatest minds, the best culture, and the most cutting-edge systems and tools in the industry? We are truly stronger and better together than apart.”

Since 2005, Vanessa and her real estate team have brought great success to their clients, having served nearly 1,000 families and totaling over $500,000,000 in sales. Currently, Vanessa is a KWU approved Trainer, Cultural Ambassador to Keller Williams, Co-Host with Mo Anderson of the KW Cultural Summit and the leader of the #1 real estate team for Maplewood/South Orange, NJ—the creative communities west of NYC. Vanessa’s passions lie in marketing, service and generosity—as represented by these focused initiatives she participates in.
Years ago, Vanessa appeared in two seasons of the real estate television show “Bought & Sold” on HGTV, where she became a recognizable face for honest and ethical real estate practices, always putting others first. She has a goal to reach as many people as possible with real estate service that is fair, honest, ethical and at a concierge-level. But, just as important as her and her team’s sales goals, is her giving goal. Vanessa has a strong mission and vision to give back to her community in ways that have a lasting impact.
At present, Pollock Properties Group has raised and donated over $300,000 to local and global charities through her Closingforacause.org initiative, as well as establishing her own www.VanessaPollockMusicInitiative.com, ensuring all children in her community have access to music instruments in public school. On a national level, Vanessa is the creator of the #CareServeGive business model, and teaches, trains and speaks to audiences of all sizes about how to grow a profitable business by being servant-hearted, community-focused and generosity-based.
On a personal level, Vanessa, her Broadway-actor (now Realtor!) husband Charlie, and their two youngest children reside in South Orange, NJ, after having lived in New York City and Downtown Jersey City. Their grown son lives in Los Angeles. They’re active at their church and in the South Orange-Maplewood (SOMA) School District.

Over the last nine years, the Moats Team has helped over 1,400 families with their real estate dreams. In 2021 alone, they closed 422 units and $137M in volume. These numbers earned them the RealTrends ranking of the number 3 real estate team in real estate transactions for the state of Texas and the number 44 team in the U.S! Bobby served as the Director of Keller Williams LABS for two years and dedicated time to cultivating the best tools and systems for every agent within Keller Williams. They are committed to company growth while living life to its fullest and consistently reinforce the Moats Team’s commitment to community values and integrity. Deeply involved with several non-profits, they commit their time and efforts away from their family and business to helping others. Bobby and Shaina spend their free time with their three children in Austin, TX.