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Louis Murad
www.muradauctions.com



Louis Murad is a professional, full time, licensed auctioneer who knows how to keep your attendees entertained and bidding! A few of his clients include Jesuit, Hockaday, St Mark of Texas, Ursuline Academy, Trinity Christian Academy, Christ the King and St. Mark Plano. He has also worked with SPCA, The Retina Foundation, Crohns and Colitis Foundation, Hope Cottage, Hope's Door, Children's Cancer Fund, Campfire USA, Booker T. Washington and the Network of Community Ministries. He is a member of the National and Texas Auctioneers Associations.

Louis is a native of Dallas and a graduate of Jesuit College Preparatory School and SMU.

He lives in Richardson with his wife, Claire and their four children. He is committed to helping your organization reach its highest potential in raising funds and Your Auction Advantage!


"Louis is the best and we've seen a lot of auctioneers!"
Tracy Rowlett
Pegasus Ball , Benefiting The Autism Treatment Centers


"I wanted to thank you for your help in making our auction a big success. I just calculated live auction totals and it is a big improvement from last year. Louis, your energy and personality really helped get the prices up and I enjoyed working with you. Thanks again for your help in growing our event and earning more money for a great cause."
Lane Olson
Dallas Scores


"What an impressive job you did for the Children's Cancer Fund Luncheon! Those sitting at my table, including Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman openly expressed their amazement at the way you handled the crowd and brought the bidding to life! Thank you for your hard work and enthusiasm, which were so important to the success of our event!"
John Little
President, Children's Cancer Fund


"Thank you so much for all of your time and excellent advice you gave to our auction committee, which lead to the great success of our Auction! Your sense of humor and enthusiasm kept the crowd in their seats and bidding until the last item was sold! The live auction this year made more money than any auction in the years past. We owe it all to you and cannot wait to have you back!"
Beth Lipscomb
St. Mark School Auction Chairperson


"We hit the jackpot at our Viva Las Vegas Auction Benefit thanks to your wonderful auctioneering talents! You brought the room to life with your unbridled energy that electrified the audience. This was evident by our final profits, which doubled last year's totals. Something we can all be proud of! You were truly a joy to work with, and I am looking forward to working with you in 2004. Thank you—Thank you—Thank you! You are a high roller in my book!"
Genevieve Dittmar
St. Thomas Catholic School, Auction Chairperson


"This was our most successful auction to date and Louis Murad was an integral part of that success. Not only did he increase the live portion of our auction by 300% but he provided invaluable ideas, guidance and support to the auction team throughout the year. We have already signed him to a contract for next year and expect to continue to grow our revenues with his help."
Shelley Williams
John Knox School


"We loved you and your auctioneering skills at Fur Ball 2006 and we know that you helped make our final numbers a reality, so we would like to ask you to participate again this year."
Noreen Merchant Rajan
Special Events Manager
SPCA of Texas


"Wow! What a great job you did! This was the first year we had a captive audience and you kept things going smoothly. People's reactions and comments have all been positive. Thank you so much!"
Lillian Curran
Prince of Peace Catholic School


"I cannot thank you enough for the outstanding job you did with the auction at Racing for Sight benefiting the Retina Foundation. I have had several compliments about you and what an outstanding job you did!"
Jean Buys
Development Director
Retina Foundation


"I want to offer our most sincere thank you for making our auction such a great success! The entire Board and the Auction Committee cannot thank you enough for your hard work, dedication and time. I have come to really appreciate how important your planning, "coercing" and energy are to our event. Your enthusiasm and stamina were vital until the last gavel fell!"
St. Patrick School


"Another tremendous job! Doubled sales! Doubled auction!

Doubled profits! Louis Murad and his team helped us grow our event for Holy Trinity in numerous way—from suggesting software to providing quality auctioneering and exceptional check-out assistance. Last year we doubled our revenue for the event with the help of their terrific consulting and hard-working crew."
Holy Trinity Seminary


"You and your crew did a fantastic job! The registration and checkout was flawless. I had many wonderful compliments about your performance as auctioneer. We will be hiring you next year!"
Assistance League of Greater Collin County


"We hit the jackpot at our Viva Las Vegas Auction Benefit thanks to your wonderful auctioneering talents! You brought the room to life with your unbridled energy that electrified the audience. This was evident by our final profits, which doubled last year's totals. Something we can all be proud of! You were truly a joy to work with, and I am looking forward to working with you in 2004. Thank you—Thank you—Thank you! You are a high roller in my book!"
St. Thomas Catholic School


"Thank you, thank you, and thank you! Not only did you help bring us into the 21st century by putting our Silent Auction on-line, your phenomenal efforts as auctioneer helped us almost double our profits. You're the best!!!!"
Armstrong Elementary School, Highland Park



Michael Wood
Michael Wood
Michael Wood introduced computer technology for silent and live auctions and remains the only provider of wireless computer bidding technology for silent auctions. Michael has focused the last 17 years on substantially increasing auction profits through innovative solutions and event night process improvements. With great attention to detail, Michael has successfully enhanced the event night experience for clients and patrons alike through streamlined registration, computerized auction tallying, efficient cashiering, wireless credit card processing and item distribution management. Mr. Wood attended Regis University majoring in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Business Administration and has over 25 years experience in event planning and project management.


"AES solved our cashiering bottlenecks and made our event a breeze for our patrons!"
Elissa Sale, Development Director
Humane Society of Boulder Valley


"Wonderful, wonderful, great, great job! You have very loyal clients at the Children's Museum! Thank you for your continued support!"
Nell Roberts
Children's Museum of Denver


"Thank you for your professional yet personal services to the Shining Stars Foundation Fundraiser. Your highly trained staff greeted our guests in a pleasant, cheerful manner."
Jim Ziegler, Board President
Boulder Shining Stars Foundation


"For over ten years AES has exceeded each year's auction revenue expectation with their wireless laptops!"
Linda Mitchell, Director of Development
Denver Center for the Performing Arts


"AES keeps getting better each year and we couldn’t do without their services. In the past, it has taken me weeks to prepare and weeks to cleanup after our event. With the help of AES, my time spent on all of these detail oriented tasks has been greatly reduced. In fact, I was done with my cleanup one day after the event, because of the information that AES prepared for us regarding our auction times. Contracting with AES allows us to come up with the total amount raised the night of the auction. We appreciate AES for their professional service and the hundreds of hours of frustrations that we no longer have to deal with."
Nancy Hiester, Development Director
Friendship Bridge, Evergreen CO


"Thank you for everything you did to help make"Bear to Make a Difference" a huge success for us. You and everyone at AES were amazing and ideal to work with."
Andrew Tweedie
Matthew Shepard Foundation, Development Assistant


"Working with AES is an event planners dream come true!

Thanks to the services that are offered and the professionalism of their staff, our 2006 Mountain Mardi Gras Auction was a huge success! Their ability to help us pre-plan and coordinate the check out and cashiering was of tremendous support and made our event run smoothly!
Thanks to AES for their support of our event!"
The Limb Preservation Foundation


"We couldn't run our auction closeout without AES! They are professional and helpful and on top of everything. Everyone is so easy to work with and they remember our challenges and needs from the year before and help us to improve our event every year. I'm now officially convinced that we cannot do it without them."
Ronald McDonald House of Denver


"AES 's computerized auction system along with their experienced, professional staff is"Priceless" in our major fundraiser Holiday Fashion Show and Luncheon event for three years in a row. With over 250 Silent Auction items we are able to maximize on bids, provide efficient patron invoicing, and timely cashiering. Thanks AES!"
Boulder Community Hospital Auxiliary


"AES has always been good to BMA, esp. considering our special circumstances as a 501c6 and not a traditional nonprofit auction."
Business Marketing Association-Colorado


"We utilized AES’s services for the first time last year. They took the time to answer all our questions and walk through the event site." Their attention to detail and professionalism was very much appreciated during a busy gala day and evening! We will be utilizing AES again for this year’s event."
Rochelle Mitchell
Director of Development
Larimer Humane Society


"The AES staff is highly professional, very detail oriented, and extremely easy to work with! Because AES is so efficient at closing an auction, working with them has allowed our organization to leave our auction open longer, and therefore increase our profits! I would highly recommend using AES to make your auction more efficient, professional, and profitable!"
Susan Knill
J.K. Mullen High School

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