Meet the Prudential Americana Branch Managers

Kathryn Bovard, Sahara Branch Manager
Kathryn manages and leads over 400 agents in one of the top 10 producing real estate offices nationwide for the Prudential Real Estate Affiliates network.  She enjoys coaching real estate agents in business and real estate systems, increasing productivity, exit strategy and team building. 

Kathryn has over 20 years experience in the Las Vegas real estate industry including top-producing sales, management and owning her own brokerage firm.  She is currently licensed to teach Continuing Education classes through the Nevada Real Estate Commission in Broker Management, Real Estate Blogging, Contracts, Agency and Ethics/Law.  Kathryn is also a yoga instructor at Yoga Sanctuary, one of the city’s top yoga studio for over 5 years. Visit her blog - Zen Real Estate in Las Vegas.

Walt Knoblock, Northwest Branch Manager 
Walt manages the newest Prudential Americana Group location  -  the beautiful Northwest Office at the US-95 Freeway and Ann Road.   Walt was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana.  After high school, he joined the U.S. Air Force as a communications intercept analyst, living for 11 years in Europe.   After retiring from the military, Walt decided to settle in Las Vegas.  He obtained his real estate license in 1980, and joined the Americana Group.  After several years of real estate sales, he joined Jack Matthews & Co, as an Office Sales Manager.  Walt subsequently returned to the Americana Group, because as he states, “I realized that there is absolutely no substitute for being with the best!”  He was a Sales Manager at several Americana Group offices prior to his appointment as Manager of the new Northwest Office.  With over 28 years of real estate management and sales experience, training and personal coaching has always been in his blood.  Walt has written and taught numerous real estate courses for Americana Group, including “Personal Marketing and Branding”, “Listing Presentation and Servicing the Listing”, “Land Descriptions” and “Working with FSBOs and Expireds”.  He holds the CRS and GRI designations, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® and the Nevada Association of REALTORS®, and has served as Chairman of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS). 

 John Joseph is broker manager of Prudential Americana Group's Green Valley office, supervising and supporting the efforts of nearly 300 real estate sales executives in one of Las Vegas' largest real estate offices. John has worked in the Las Vegas real estate industry for nearly ten years and focused on sales, management and training for real estate executives. Through his previous company, he earned many accolades for his accomplishments including the "President's Elite" distinction and was recently recognized as having the highest standards of service, productivity and leadership. Joseph has utilized his talents to successfully train and coach real estate executives around the country.

Heidi Kasama, Summerlin Branch Manager

Heidi Came to Prudential Americana in 2009 bringing with her a very successful Brokerage. Heidi and Peter Kasama founded Windermere Summerlin in 2004 and were the first Windermere franchise in Las Vegas. Since then, the company has achieved half a billion in real estate sales, with nearly $100 million in the last year alone. The former CPAs credit their business backgrounds and analytical processes for keeping the company successful despite Las Vegas' recent real estate downturn. Heidi currently lives in Summerlin and is a part of the Women's Council of Realtors. She is also on the board of the GLVAR and the NVAR and a member of the Women's Presidents Organization.

Aldo Martinez, Southwest Branch Manager
Aldo, a 39 year resident of the greater Las Vegas area, would almost qualify as a native except he was made in Cuba and assembled in Nevada.  He has lived in Green Valley most all his life, except for a military hiatus of 22 years, where he served in the US Army and retired as a Sergeant Major. He attended school here as well at Basic High School where he would have graduated if it weren’t for that expulsion thing. Sheds some light into why he joined the military, it was either that or jail. (Just kidding) However, he has bounced back from those memorable days and received his Associates degree from Vincennes University.  Aldo began his real estate career here in Las Vegas in 1993, with American Group Better Homes and Garden and is now the Managing Broker of Prudential Americana Groups Southwest Branch.  Aldo currently over see’s 240 plus agents at the Southwest Branch and serves on the Faculty at The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors ® (GLVAR).  He is a graduate of the Instructor Training Institute and holds the ITI, GRI , ABR and the ABRM Designations.