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Carrie Wheeler
Chief Executive Officer at Opendoor
Carrie Wheeler is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Opendoor, not the Chief Financial Officer. She assumed the CEO role in December 2022.1 Here are some key details about Carrie Wheeler's career:
Professional Experience
- Current Role: Chief Executive Officer at Opendoor (since December 2022)12
- Previous Roles at Opendoor:
Other Board Positions
- APi Group Corporation: Board member and audit committee member (since November 2019)12
- TKO Group Holdings: Board member and audit committee chairperson (since September 2023)1
- Previously served on boards of Dollar Tree, Neiman Marcus Group, and Petco Animal Supplies1
Prior Experience
- TPG Global: Partner and Head of Consumer/Retail Investing (1996-2017)12
- Goldman Sachs: Analyst in M&A and Principal Investment Area (1993-1996)2
Education
Carrie Wheeler brings nearly three decades of experience in finance, private equity, and corporate governance to her role at Opendoor.3 Her leadership has been crucial in guiding Opendoor through significant growth and market challenges in the real estate technology sector.
Highlights
Today we announced that David Benson has been appointed to Opendoor's Board of Directors. David most recently served as the President of Fannie Mae, which is the largest provider of mortgage credit in the US with over $4 trillion in assets and a mission to facilitate equitable and sustainable access to homeownership.
David is a deeply respected executive who brings three decades of leadership in the single-family residential real estate space, along with significant operating and capital markets expertise. With our shared interest in modernizing the real estate experience for consumers, I know Opendoor will benefit from David’s extensive knowledge and industry insights as we continue building toward our vision to help people move with simplicity and certainty.
Welcome to Opendoor, David. We’re thrilled you’ve joined us to reinvent one of life’s most important transactions.
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At Opendoor, we’ve always believed that the status quo in real estate isn’t good for consumers, and it isn’t good for business, either. That’s why we champion change in the industry, especially when it’s beneficial to the more than four million Americans who sell a home annually.
The industry rule changes stemming from the NAR settlement represent an important move towards giving consumers more transparency and choice -- principles that are central to how we’ve built Opendoor and how we’ve been operating for the past decade. It will take time to measure the impact to the market and to educate home buyers and sellers on what it means for them. However, ultimately these policies should catalyze several key changes, including lowering the cost of home transactions, enabling more mobility in the market and empowering consumers to transact directly.
As we navigate these changes, we look forward to continuing Opendoor for Agents, our partnership program with agents that we’ve been growing since 2016. Our program rewards agents for working with Opendoor, as well as providing opportunities to list homes for their clients with the certainty of Opendoor’s cash offer as a fallback. Additionally, when we resell homes, Opendoor will provide concessions to cover the cost of any buyer’s agent that brings us a buyer with the best offer. Opendoor for Agents is a Win-Win-Win: a win for consumers, agents and the business.
Opendoor has been building for this future – one where consumers have more options in how they choose to move, more control over the transaction and more transparency throughout the process. As the only e-commerce platform in residential real estate where consumers can buy and sell a home directly, we are well positioned to capitalize on this change. We empower buyers with the ability to self-tour our homes on their terms and go into contract with a few clicks. And features in our direct buying experience like tap-to-tour and no-commitment viewing are central to putting the control in the hands of consumers.
Opendoor is uniquely positioned to lead this change to a more liquid and lower-fee market. Though change may take time, the door continues to open even wider for greater access to homeownership in America.
