Mr. Ellis is a founding officer and Principal owner of Service First Management & Consulting, Inc. He is a graduate of Frostburg State University with a BS in Economics, and minors in Accounting and Business Administration. He has been involved in the management of community associations since 1988, and has successfully transitioned many communities from developer to homeowner control, maintaining the client relationship for many years thereafter. Mr. Ellis has experience in all areas of property and financial management, currently managing communities throughout the area with combined assets of over $1,000,000, and combined budgets of over $2,000,000. In addition to his knowledge of management and associated legal matters, Mr. Ellis specializes in community association budgeting.

Ms. Simonovich joined the team of Service First Management & Consulting (SFMC) in October 1998. With over ten (10) years of common interest management and five (5) years of builder/developer service, she has offered SFMC knowledge and experience of the industry. Ms. Simonovich has successfully managed townhome and single-family communities from 12 to 500 units. As the President and co-owner of SFMC, Ms. Simonovich is responsible for the quality of service offered to clients, as well as the day-to-day operations of the organization. This includes the direct oversight of the physical and financial management of the clients and staff. Ms. Simonovich has been married for 17 years, has two children, Stephanie 13 and Zachary 10 and resides in Northern Virginia.

Mr. Maltese joined the team of Service First Management & Consulting (SFMC) in April 2005. He has over 9 years experience on the Board of Directors of a large town home association, serving 6 years as President. Prior to beginning his career in property management, Mr. Maltese was a Management Consultant providing business and information technology to both the Federal Government and many commercial corporations. Mr. Maltese brings his quality management expertise along with his lengthy service on his Association’s Board to provide his clients the customer service they expect.

After several years as an administrative assistant in the service industry, Mrs. Lausch joined the SFMC team in April 1998. As Executive Assistant, she provides direct support to the President of SFMC as well as network systems support, administrative support to community managers and overseeing the administrative staff. The quality of customer service to the SFMC clients is directly attributed to Christie’s overall support of the organization. Christie is very active in her community and has been a volunteer EMT since 1990 in Prince William County at Yorkshire Volunteer Fire Department. Christie also works part-time in the summers as an EMT at the Nissan Pavilion, a local concert arena. Christie was born and raised in the Metropolitan area and currently resides in Manassas with her husband, Matt.