Rebecca Mason is a principal and executive director of the residential brokerage division of Caran Properties. She is responsible for the group's management, marketing, business development and listing activities. She joined Caran in 1993 and served as Caran's special projects manager, focusing on asset management, and has supervised $8 million in construction projects from bidding through completion. She was honored in 2004 as one of the "Top 50 Women Leaders in Real Estate" and a "Rising Star" in the industry by AREW. She currently serves as AREW's president. She is a licensed real estate broker. She is active in industry associations, serves as chair of the Association of Real Estate Women Charitable Fund, Inc, and is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and served as co-chair of REBNY's small firm committee for the past two years. She also is currently serving on the REBNY ethics committee and was recruited by REBNY to become a technical instructor and will be teaching courses for continuing education in the fall of 2007.