HIGGENBOTHAM - Key Persons


Angie Poole

Job Titles:
  • Comptroller
  • Office Manager
Angie's primary responsibilities include overseeing office operations and coordination; assisting with auction planning, execution, and follow through; human resource functions and oversees revenues, costs, operating budget and expenditures. Angie is also a licensed Florida Real Estate Agent.

Chris Vaughan

Job Titles:
  • Western Regional Director, Auctioneer and Broker
Chris has had an extensive career in the real estate development and auction business, covering over 25 years throughout the United States. Chris has been a key executive and manager in the land investment, development, construction, leasing and end marketing of over 9,500 residential single and multi-family units in 9 western states and participating in the auction of several hundred real estate assets. In his auction career, Chris has successfully been a project manager and team member of several multi-property auctions in California, Kansas, Texas and Louisiana. Chris is also a licensed California Real Estate Broker for over 30 years.

Gabrielle Phipps

Job Titles:
  • Information Coordinator
Gabrielle is the first point of contact for clients and buyers at Higgenbotham Auctioneers and is responsible for collecting, analyzing, processing and disseminating information on all of the auctions we hold. She assembles our transactional marketing reports, which include all buyer contact with the company prior to an auction as well as assembling the other data from advertising and marketing to complete these reports for our seller clients prior to our auction. These give our project managers and clients an accurate picture, before the auction, what is likely to happen at the auction and give us a basis for follow up to get the transactions closed on time. Gabrielle is expert on all MS Office programs and gets the information the company needs to do a great job for its clients and buyers.

Laura Slocumb

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant, Business Development
Laura has worked in the purchase and sale of properties at auction for more than 16 years. She started her position with Higgenbotham as an auction manager providing coordination and completion of the due diligence process that leads to the creation of our comprehensive property information packages prepared for each and every property we sell. Since 2008 Laura has been the Administrative Assistant to the President, assisting with buyer inquiries, client coordination, and sales inquiries. Laura has been a Licensed Florida Real Estate Agent since 2005 and is a Member of the Mid-Florida Regional MLS (covers most of central Florida), Lakeland Association of Realtors, Florida Association of Realtors and National Association of Realtors.