John Rice
Lead Independent Director
John Rice has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2021. Mr. Rice is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (“MLT”), a national non-profit organization founded in 2001 that closes racial wealth gaps by elevating the career and economic trajectory of people of color and by advancing racially equitable employer practices. Prior to MLT, Mr. Rice was an executive with the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) from 1996 to 2000, where he served in various roles, including as Managing Director of NBA Japan and as Director of Marketing for Latin America. Prior to that, Mr. Rice spent four years with the Walt Disney Company in new business development and marketing and two years with AT&T. Since 2010, Mr. Rice has served as a member of the board of directors of Walker & Dunlop, Inc. a publicly traded real estate finance company, where he also serves as chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and as a member of the compensation committee. He also serves on the board of directors of Morgan Stanley Real Estate’s Prime Property Fund, a privately held diversified real estate fund. Mr. Rice was also a member of the Yale University Board of Trustees from 2011 to 2023. Mr. Rice received his B.A. degree from Yale University and M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
Adam Bain
Director
Adam Bain has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2020 and previously served as a member of the board of directors of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II until December 2020. Mr. Bain is a co-founder and has served as co-Managing Partner of 01 Advisors, a venture capital firm targeting high-growth technology companies, since January 2018. Mr. Bain served as a director of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., which was a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, from September 2017 until the consummation of its business combination with Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded spaceflight company, in October 2019, where he served as a member of the board of directors from October 2019 to June 2023 and as chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and a member of the compensation committee until May 2023. Since November 2016, Mr. Bain has also been an independent advisor and investor in select privately held growth-stage companies. Previously, from 2015 to November 2016, Mr. Bain served as the Chief Operating Officer of Twitter, Inc., a publicly traded social media company, and also served as President of Global Revenue & Partnerships from 2010 to 2015. Mr. Bain received his B.A. degree in English Journalism from Miami University in Ohio.
David Benson
Director
David Benson has served on our board of directors since September 2024. Mr. Benson most recently served as President of Fannie Mae, the largest provider of mortgage credit in the United States with over $4 trillion assets, from August 2018 until his retirement in May 2024. As President, Mr. Benson oversaw each of Fannie Mae’s business units, single-family residential and multifamily, as well as several corporate functions, including Finance, IT, Operations, Strategy, Human Resources and Communications. In addition, Mr. Benson helped to pioneer the formation of Common Securitization Solutions, a cloud-native platform that enables the $7 trillion mortgage-backed securities market to achieve enhanced levels of liquidity and standardization. Mr. Benson also served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from May 2022 to December 2022, as a member of the board of directors from May 2022 to December 2022, as Interim Chief Financial Officer from May 2021 to November 2021, and as the interim head of Fannie Mae’s Single-Family business from January 2021 to May 2021. Mr. Benson joined Fannie Mae in 2002, and prior to his role as President, served in a range of leadership roles, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President—Capital Markets, Securitization & Corporate Strategy, and as Treasurer. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Benson was Managing Director in the fixed income division of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., where, from 1988 through 2002, he served in several capacities in the areas of risk management, trading, debt syndication and e-commerce. Mr. Benson earned his B.S. in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, his M.B.A. from Stanford University and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Eric Feder
Director
Eric Feder has served on our board of directors since May 2024. Mr. Feder has been President of LENX, LLC since 2019, and a senior operating executive at Lennar Corporation, one of the country’s leading homebuilders, since 2008. He oversees Lennar Corporation’s innovation platform and has helped identify, structure and execute Lennar Corporation’s investments in the real estate technology space. He has served on the board of directors of Hippo Holdings Inc., a publicly traded insurance company focusing on property and casualty insurance, since 2018. Prior to his current role at Lennar, Mr. Feder was Vice Chairman at Rialto Capital, a leading investment management platform focused on real estate, from 2008 to 2018, where he provided oversight of over $6 billion of direct real estate investments and non-performing loan acquisitions.
Dana Hamilton
Director
Dana Hamilton has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2023. From December 2022 to March 2023, Ms. Hamilton was a Senior Advisor to Pretium Partners LLC, an alternative investment manager specializing in U.S. real estate and credit assets. From April 2017 until December 2022, Ms. Hamilton was a Senior Managing Director and Head of Real Estate for Pretium, where she oversaw significant growth in Pretium’s single-family rental investment business. Since June 2024, Ms. Hamilton has served on the board of directors of Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., a publicly traded real estate development and management company, where she also serves as a member of the risk committee. Ms. Hamilton is also the co-founder of Ameriton LLC, a real estate investment company, and has served as its President since October 2014. From October 2013 to October 2014, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and trustee, of Borderplex Community Trust. Prior thereto, Ms. Hamilton spent 20 years at Archstone, one of the largest apartment companies in the U.S. and Europe, until its sale to AvalonBay and Equity Residential in 2013, where she held numerous roles during her tenure, including President – Europe and Executive Vice President – National Operations. Ms. Hamilton previously served as a director of Life Storage, Inc. until the company merged with Extra Space Storage Inc. in July 2023, and FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated from April 2016 until September 2017, when the company merged with RLJ Lodging Trust. Ms. Hamilton earned her B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University and her M.B.A. in Real Estate and Finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Cipora Herman
Director
Cipora Herman has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2020 and previously served as a member of the board of directors of Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II until December 2020. Ms. Herman has served on the board of directors of ZipRecruiter, Inc., a publicly traded online employment marketplace company, since October 2018, where she also serves as the lead independent director, the chair of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee. Previously, Ms. Herman served as the Chief Financial Officer for LA28, The Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028, from January 2021 to April 2022. Ms. Herman also served on the board of directors of MINDBODY, Inc., a software-as-a-service company, from October 2016 to February 2019. From 2012 to 2016, Ms. Herman served as the Chief Financial Officer of the San Francisco 49ers, a professional American football team. Prior to that, Ms. Herman served in various leadership roles in large online media and technology companies, including as Vice President & Treasurer of Facebook, Inc. from 2007 to 2012, and in various roles at Yahoo! Inc. from 2003 to 2007, including VP Finance and Treasurer. She also served on private company boards of directors, including Memery, Inc. (dba Overlay) from 2015 to January 2021. Ms. Herman received her A.B. degree in International Relations, M.A. degree in International Development Policy and M.B.A degree, each from Stanford University.
Pueo Keffer
Director
Pueo Keffer has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2020 and served as a member on the board of directors of Opendoor Labs Inc. from October 2015 to December 2020. Mr. Keffer has served as a Managing Director of Access Technology Ventures, the venture capital and growth technology investment arm of Access Industries, Inc. since 2015. From 2009 to 2015, Mr. Keffer served in various roles at Redpoint Ventures, most recently as a Partner. Since 2015, he has served on the board of directors of DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded cloud computing platform company, where he serves as a chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and member of the compensation committee. He also serves on the board of directors of two privately held companies. Previously, Mr. Keffer was an associate at TA Associates, a growth private equity firm, and a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Keffer received his B.A. degree in Economics from Stanford University.
Glenn Solomon
Director
Glenn Solomon has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2020 and served as a member on the board of directors of Opendoor Labs Inc. from February 2015 to December 2020. Mr. Solomon has been a Managing Partner of Notable Capital (formerly known as GGV Capital), a venture capital firm, since 2006, and a director of Hashicorp, Inc., a publicly traded software company, since September 2014, where he also serves as chair of the compensation committee and as a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee. He also serves as a director of a number of privately held companies and previously served as a director of Domo, Inc., a cloud software company, from August 2017 to March 2019. Mr. Solomon received his B.A. degree in Public Policy and M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Carrie Wheeler
Director
Carrie Wheeler has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since December 2022. She previously served as our Chief Financial Officer from September 2020 to December 2022. Ms. Wheeler also previously served as a member of our board of directors from October 2019 to September 2020. From 1996 to 2017, Ms. Wheeler was with TPG Global, a global private equity firm, including as a Partner and Head of Consumer / Retail Investing. Ms. Wheeler has served on the board of directors and on the audit committee of APi Group Corporation, a global provider of safety and specialty services, since November 2019 and on the board of directors of TKO Group Holdings, where she is also chairperson of the audit committee, since September 2023. She previously served on the board and audit committee of Dollar Tree, Inc. from March 2019 to March 2022. Ms. Wheeler has also served on a number of other corporate boards of private and public companies, including Neiman Marcus Group (2005 to 2013) and Petco Animal Supplies (2006 to 2015). Ms. Wheeler received her Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University in Canada.
Board Diversity Matrix (As of September 12, 2024)
Total Number of Directors | 9 | |||
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Female | Male | Non-Binary | Gender Undisclosed |
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Gender Identity | ||||
Directors | 3 | 6 | — | — |
Demographic Background | ||||
African American or Black | — | 1 | — | — |
Alaskan Native or Native American | — | — | — | — |
Asian | — | — | — | — |
Hispanic or Latinx | — | — | — | — |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | — | — | — | — |
White | 3 | 5 | — | — |
Two or More Races or Ethnicities | — | — | — | — |
LBGTQ+ | — | |||
Did Not Disclose Demographic Background | — |