About EMS Founder

For years, Estate Management Systems (EMS) Founder Kelly Fore Dixon had a successful career as a landscaping designer and contractor – she supervised million-dollar renovations and $100,000+ yearly estate maintenance accounts. She was also a licensed general building contractor with a roster of satisfied UHNW clients.

Through those connections, she eventually transitioned to estate management, which included five luxury properties from Los Angeles to London, with five full-time staff and over 80 subcontractors.

While serving as an estate manager for some of the wealthiest families in the world…

Kelly was often given monumental requests with few resources and needed help with day-to-day demands.

How Estate Management Systems Started

Finally reaching a break point where note-taking and incomplete checklists weren’t serving her anymore, Kelly realized she needed a better way to track projects, capture principal requests, and communicate with her staff. Quickly, it became clear to her that private service lacked management tools beyond an Excel spreadsheet and a Google calendar.

This experience compelled her to create her Estate Management Systems (EMS). Dixon launched EMS to help private service professionals who manage similar households benefit from what she had to learn the hard way.

Kelly has always been enamored with luxury lifestyles and enjoyed the status of working for the rich and (sometimes) famous. She also has a fascination with Excel spreadsheets and a compulsion to tackle large, complex projects – by combining these exceptional qualities, EMS was born.