More than 150 industry experts gathered at the Emil Bach House on Thursday night to kick off the launch of Truepad, a new home search engine. Guests received tours of the historic home and experienced first-hand Truepad’s recently released iOS application for real estate agents and brokers, called Truepad Agent.

Tom Mahowald (Navigant) and Paul Petani (First Alert)

Tom Jolly, Fred Jolly and Eric Jolly

Sarah Brinkmann, Kai Schirmacher, David Wolf and Jenny Ames (Coldwell Banker)

Sandy Petani, Shelly Flenniken (ConAgra Foods) and Yadira Gutierrez (Trumaker)

Sandy Petani, Baxter Swilley (Chicago Taxicab Operators Association) and Phil Molfese

Paul Lazarre, Greg Hila and Scott Hammack (Truepad)

Paul Lazarre, Greg Hila and Scott Hammack (Truepad)

Patrick O&aposRourke (Coldwell Banker) and Craig Sparling (LeapRE)

Nedra Johnson (Fulton Grace Realty), Nikki Burnett (RE/MAX) and Dawn Brown

Nathaniel Ellsworth and Kelly Wheeler (Cision)

Myphuong Ly (Chicago Apartment Finders) and Vanessa Yeh (1871)

Mike Rossmeier (Built In Chicago) and Ingrid Stafford (Northwestern University)

Kim Wolfson and Baxter Swilley (Chicago Taxicab Operators Association)

Julie Derrig (The Haymarket Group) and Kevin Derrig (Office of the City Clerk)

Jenny Ames (Coldwell Banker) and Kevin Rocio (ROC Development Group)

Greg Hila (TruePad) and Sean Foote (Jennifer Ames Chicago)

Garland Lucas (Union Pacific Railroad) and Ebony Lucas (The Property Law Group, LLC)

Fred Jolly, Tom Maxson and Laura Jolly

Elizabeth Miszczyszyn (D&aposaprile Properties) and Charlie Alberti

Eileen Romito (Truepad)

Drina Schiller, Joe Schiller and Hugo Hirsch (BHHS KoenigRubloff)

Don LePard (Top Flite Financial) and Emily Johnson (CloudCraze)

David Marden (Element Group Real Estate and Insurance) and Steven Caban (Caban Insurance)

Danny Logarakis (@properties ), Kevin Rocio (ROC Development Group), Jenny Ames (Coldwell Banker) and Chikoo Patel (ROC Development Group)

Colin Salisbury (Truepad)

Bill Evans (@properties) and Patti Engstrom

Aquila Mushir-Bey (D.M.H. Legal Aide Services) and Terrell Hughes