Management Team

Robert A. Buntz, Jr.
CEO, President and Chairman of the Board

Robert A. Buntz, Jr. has served as a director of the Company since inception in April 2007. Mr. Buntz has been an entrepreneur for more than 30 years and a real estate broker for more than 25. In 1981, Mr. Buntz began developing the award-winning Bluefin Bay on Lake Superior, Tofte, Minnesota, and operated that resort until 2007. Among other achievements, Mr. Buntz's development company donated the land, time and funding to help create the North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum, and Mr. Buntz created and developed one of the first rural affordable housing projects, Tofte Homestead. From 1984 through 2006, and while he was simultaneously operating Bluefin Bay, Mr. Buntz was the owner and operator of Tofte Land Co., Inc., a real estate holding and brokerage firm. He now has more than 25 years of hospitality experience as an owner-operator of destination properties.

Mr. Buntz has served on the board of directors of the Explore Minnesota Tourism Council and the (Minnesota) Governor's Tourism Advisory Committee for more than 15 years. Currently, Mr. Buntz is a board member and past-chair of the board of the American Museum of Asmat Art. Mr. Buntz received the (Minnesota) Governor's Entrepreneurship Award from Governor Rudy Perpich and the Outstanding Individual in Tourism Award from Governor Jesse Ventura. He is a graduate of Grinnell College.


Edward Wicker
Chief Financial Officer

Edward Wicker has served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, including Webdigs, LLC, since September 2007. Mr. Wicker provides a combination of large and small company finance executive experience. Most recently, Mr. Wicker has served as CFO of several start-up companies in the Twin Cities, including Tailor Building Systems (2005-2007), Michelina’s Inc. (2002), and Wireless Ronin Technologies (2001-2002). Mr. Wicker also founded KMR Designs in 2002, a firm that was a niche supplier of ultra high performance custom winter accessories supplying people who worked and played outdoors for long periods at below zero temperatures. Prior to these positions, Mr. Wicker had a long career at personal care products maker Coty, Inc., where he served in several senior finance executive positions. His final ten years with Coty were spent in Europe, where he served as VP of Finance at Spanish and UK subsidiaries, as well as controller of Coty’s global operations division. Prior to Europe, Mr. Wicker served as finance director of Coty’s then sister company—Reckitt Benckiser US Consumer Products Division. Prior to working at Reckitt, he began his career at Ecolab, where he worked in internal audit and financial analyst positions. Mr. Wicker holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson school of management. Mr. Wicker is a CPA.


Joshua Katz
Senior Vice President of Operations

Joshua Katz has served as the Senior Vice President – Operations for Webdigs since June 2009. In addition, he serves as General Manager of IggysHouse.com.  Mr. Katz is a licensed Real Estate broker in a number of states including Florida, Texas, Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina. He had been Senior Vice President-Brokerage Operations of Iggys House, Inc., from July 2007 to February 2009. He served as the Managing Broker for the State of Florida for Iggys House Brokerage Services, Inc., from January 2006 to February 2009. From 1996 to 2005, Mr. Katz served in several capacities in the real estate brokerage and real estate development industries, including as the managing broker for Peerless Realty Group, Inc., a real estate brokerage firm, from January 2002 to December 2005. Mr. Katz graduated with a BBA – Entrepreneurship from The University of Miami (FL).


Thomas Meckey
Vice President - Upper Midwest Operations

Thomas Meckey was appointed as a director of the Company on October 24, 2007. Mr. Meckey also currently serves as the Vice President of Operations and was a co-founder of Webdigs, LLC. Mr. Meckey has five years of experience in residential real estate and finance. Mr. Meckey’s real estate and finance career includes his founding of Home Equity Advisors, LLC in 2006, serving as a realtor with Re/Max Results from 2004 to 2007, and serving as a loan officer with Wealth Spring Mortgage from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Meckey worked as a software consultant to Ben Nevis, Inc. (2002-2003), an account executive at Adytum Software Co. (2000-2002), and as a consultant with JD Edwards ERP Business Unit, which is a division of Ernst & Young, LLP (1998-2000). Mr. Meckey is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and holds a degree in Information Sciences.