Veteran Houston home building executive Amy Rino has been named the new division president of Taylor Morrison’s recently aligned Houston home building operations.
Rino, who has served as division president for Darling Homes since 2013, will now oversee all three brands in Houston for Taylor Morrison Home Corporation including Taylor Morrison, Darling Homes and the builder’s 55+ brand, Bonterra. In addition, Rino will focus on the company’s premium master-planned community brand of Avalon as an important part of the overall business and growth plans with Taylor Morrison’s history having created seven Avalon communities to date in Houston. The new structure creates Houston’s third largest home builder and the largest division in the country for Taylor Morrison.
It also creates a company that has combined for four of the last eight “Builder of the Year” awards from the Greater Houston Builder’s Association Houston’s Best PRISM Awards. This month, Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes were also collectively awarded the 2017 Builder of the Year by the Greater Houston Builder Association. In addition, Taylor Morrison was recently named America’s Most Trusted® Home Builder by Lifestory Research for a third consecutive year.
“The creation of a unified Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes team, to me, is as much a logical business decision as a dream come true,” said Rino, who also spent eight years as vice president of sales and marketing for Taylor Morrison. “Together we are now a powerful homebuilding force in Houston delivering multiple lines of products to our homebuyers with a focus on creating a differentiated customer experience.”
With Rino’s promotion to president of the unified division, she will oversee a team that includes some of the area’s most respected homebuilding executives, including Bill Dalton (vice president of land), Todd Rasmussen (vice president of operations), Jim Black (vice president of construction), Bob Kulpinski (vice president of sales and marketing), Glenn Kite (Taylor Morrison vice president of purchasing) and Steve Mein (Darling Homes vice president of purchasing).
“We are looking forward to elevating our business to a new level of execution and success as a unified operation,” she said.
