Peter F. Hunt is President and CEO of Hunt Real Estate Corporation. Under his leadership, Hunt Real Estate Corporations sales volume has risen to over $1 billion in 2003. Since 1984, Mr. Hunt has founded Devere Capital Corporation, a mortgage banking firm, Hunt-Vanner Agency, a general insurance agency, Realty Express, a discount real estate brokerage, and The Realty Club, a membership organization supplying homeownership services.

In 1992, Mr. Hunt acquired a title agency and formed Network Title Agency of New York. In 2000, Hunt Real Estate ERA acquired Zabel-Ryan Associates, the area's leading association management company. In March 2001, Hunt Real Estate expanded into Rochester, New York through the acquisition of Judy Columbus Real Estate and Relocation. Hunt Real Estate joined the ERA system in March 2002, now operating as Hunt Real Estate ERA in Buffalo-Niagara, and Columbus ERA and r-house ERA in Greater Rochester and Syracuse.

In 1996, Mr. Hunt received the "Family Business of the Year" award from the Canisius College Center for Entrepreneurship. Cendant Mobility, the nation's leading relocation management firm, awarded Mr. Hunt with the "Cendant Mobility Cup" in 1998 and the Cendant Mobility "Masters Cup" in 2001 and 2003, generally considered the highest honor in the relocation real estate industry. Mr. Hunt was recently named Buffalo Niagara Sales and Marketing "Executive of the Year" in 2002, the Muscular Dystrophy Association's "Executive of the Year" in 2002 and Canisius College's "Executive of the Year" in 2003.

Mr. Hunt is active in the local community, currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Daemen College. He is also a trustee of the YMCA of Greater Buffalo, having also served as the Y's chairman of its Board of Directors and as a director and member of the executive committee of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership. Mr. Hunt is also a member of the Young President's Organization, past chair of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, a director of the Buffalo Renaissance Foundation and a member of the Business Backs the Bills committee. This year Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are Honorary Chairpersons for the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County. Mr. Hunt has also been active in youth hockey, as a coach.