Tom Skweres

Tom has been in the property management industry for over 35 years.  Tom is currently the Vice President for ACM Community Management and is responsible for marketing, sales, Board member education and monthly manager training.  Tom is a licensed community association manager through the State of Illinois.

Tom was an Adjunct Faculty member at the College of DuPage for twenty-five years in the facility and property management department and is an Advisor at DePaul University in their School of New Learning.

Tom is an active committee member of ACTHA (the Association of Condominium and Townhouse and Homeowners Associations), a member of CAI (Community Associations Institute) and a Past-President of ABOMA (the Apartment Building Owners and Managers Association).  Tom is also an Advisory Committee member for CondoLifestyles magazine.

Tom was the Board Secretary for his former condominium association and a past Board member of the Hinswood Homeowners Association, where he and his family currently live. 

Tom is an industry article contributor, seminar presenter and published author.

Marcia Caruso 

Marcia Caruso began her career in accounting in an apartment community in Pittsburgh and worked her way up to the position of comptroller while attending nightly college classes. She received her degree in accounting shortly after from Lehigh University.

Once having completed her education, she moved on to become the first woman senior financial analyst. From there she began her 46 year long career in property management and became one of the “grandes dames” in the industry. Her career included working in the states of Connecticut, Florida and then on to Illinois managing a Chicago retirement community in 1984.

As Marcia worked her way up the chain of command in management she began training others in the field of property management beginning in 1986.

In 1990 Marcia started working in condominium management. She received her CPM number 7529 which designates an early number when it was a male dominated industry.

As a woman pioneer in the industry, she has been a real estate broker in the three states of Connecticut, Florida and Illinois specifically in the metropolitan Chicago land area. She also holds her LCAM certification.

Marcia came to Illinois in 1990 and opened up Caruso Management Group in 2002. Since this time, Marcia has been very active in both ACTHA and CAI. Marcia fostered and facilitated the Learn and Lead program for ACTHA, which trains Board Members in Community governance and Illinois Condo Law. This training started a chain reaction in the industry as others went on to duplicate her efforts in educating Board members and Managers in Community Association living.

Additionally Marcia expanded her mentoring and training of others to include the responsibilities of budgeting, overseeing maintenance projects and all areas of management through the channels of ACTHA and CAI.

In 2015 Caruso Management Group was sold to RealManage. Marcia continues working at RealManage as well as mentoring and training other managers throughout the industry.