Cheri Hipenbecker

General Counsel
Knight Barry Title, Inc.

CHERI A. HIPENBECKER is General Counsel for the Knight Barry Title Group, which is a group of title and settlement companies with over 80 offices and 400 title and closing professionals with offices throughout Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin. Cheri joined Knight Barry Title in 2007 when the company had only 80 or so people in Southeastern Wisconsin. Since joining Knight Barry Title in 2007 Cheri, along with the other members of Knight Barry Title’s Executive Team, saw expansion opportunities and began aggressively increasing the company’s footprint by acquiring at least 1 title company every year since 2007.

In addition to acquisition mode, Cheri serves as a first point of contact for Knight Barry Title’s staff on all things “legal” including implementation of American Land Title Association’s (ALTA) Best Practices, being the preeminent standard for title policy issuance and escrow account administration.

But Cheri’s dedication to real property conveyances doesn’t start and end with Knight Barry Title. She has been actively engaged with the Wisconsin Land Title Association (WLTA) since 2007, is Past-President of the WLTA and current WLTA Legislative Chair. She is also currently serving a gubernatorial appointment to Wisconsin’s Remote Notary Council, a member of ALTA’s Best Practices Executive Committee and Co-Chair of ALTA’s Best Practices Pillar 4 Committee. Bringing it home, Cheri serves on the Town of Norway (Racine County) Planning Commission & Land Use Committee.

Cheri has a passion for the real estate industry and takes the safety and security of consumer privacy and money to heart, having actively presented on wire fraud for the past 7+ years. When not out presenting you can find Cheri with her husband Bob, daughter Kelsey (21) and son Gavin (18) enjoying the beautiful lakes and state parks in Wisconsin, or playing ice hockey with some phenomenal ladies in Wisconsin.