When Proxibid president Ryan Downs sat down for an interview with Silicon Prairie News in September, Downs highlighted two goals at the top of his company’s to-do list for the immediate future: growth of the marketplace and international expansion.

With its latest hire, Proxibid appears to be backing up Downs’ talk. The Omaha-based real auction marketplace announced Monday that Larry Latham, billed by Proxibid as an “auction industry pioneer,” has joined its team to add focus to its business development strategy.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to work with the Proxibid team,” Latham said in a press release. “I look forward to serving as an advocate for the auction industry, and to help chart a path to keep it moving in the right direction. I have a deep admiration for the auction industry as a whole, as well as a vision for the future, and am ready to get to work.”

Latham’s past work includes creating the technology and logistics that allowed the FCC to auction more than $12 billion dollars of wireless licenses for mobile phones; creating homebid.com, which is believed to be the first real estate internet auction company in the United States; and serving as vice chairman for AmeriBid, which provides asset management and liquidation solutions for financial institutions, governments agencies, real estate investment trusts, hedge funds and bankruptcy courts in the United States.

In his new role at Proxibid, Latham (left) will help the company explore new opportunities for elevating the entire auction industry, a focus that’s consistent with the priorities Downs (left) emphasized back in September. 

“We are thrilled to have a partner like Larry Latham join our team to shape the future of the auction industry,” Downs said in the press release. “Larry is a visionary and will help to catapult our company and the auction industry into the future.”

Image credits: Photo of Larry Latham from NAA News on WordPress.