An influential ranking of the top executives in residential real estate counts at least one figure from the Bay State: Maisello Group President and CEO Christopher Maisello.

The Swanepoel Power 200, published annually by brokerage consultancy T3 Sixty, bills itself as “the definitive ranking of the residential real estate industry’s executives and leaders,” and it’s no sure thing for any Massachusetts real estate industry figures to land on the list.

To make the cut, among other qualifications, someone must lead or be a senior executive at a brokerage company with more than $3 billion in annual sales volume, at a real estate tech firm with a large user base – for example, over 1,000 broker or team clients or 50,000 agent users – or at an MLS organizations with over 40,000 subscribers, a local Realtor association with over 20,000 members or a state Realtor association with more than 50,000 members.

Maisello’s citation – the only brokerage executive from New Hampshire to be so recognized – notes the size of Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate The Maisello Group, which has around 600 agents and $1.8 billion in annual sales.

The recognition came the week after his father’s death, at age 83 after “a brief illness,” was announced. Longtime Keene resident Jim Maisello founded The Maisello Group in 1961 offering property and casualty insurance, plus real estate and travel services. His son joined the family company young and has lead it since the mid-1990s.

“He said I had to make it on my own. He had an appropriate and measured way of tutoring where he would give you enough information, but you had to figure it out yourself,” Christopher Maisello told the Keene Sentinel.