Auction.com Names Former Yahoo! CFO Tim Morse Chief Executive Officer
Company Co-Founder and Former CEO Jeff Frieden Named Executive Chairman
IRVINE and BELMONT, Calif., June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Auction.com, the nation's leading online real estate marketplace, has named former Yahoo! Inc. CFO and interim CEO Tim Morse as the company's CEO. Current CEO and Co-founder Jeff Frieden will remain fully engaged with the company as Auction.com's executive chairman. Morse joined Auction.com in May of last year, and has served as its chief financial officer.
"I'm very proud of what we've accomplished, of the team we've put together, and of the pivotal role Auction.com has played in moving real estate transactions online," Frieden said. "As our company has grown and evolved, I began looking for someone with experience running a larger, public company – someone who understands technology, can work with the capital markets, and who has the operational expertise to take our vision and execute it on a global scale. I think Tim is the perfect person to take the company to the next level, and his leadership will help Auction.com expand our ongoing efforts to transform how real estate is bought and sold."
The company has sold over 165,000 residential and commercial properties since being founded in 2007, totaling over $30 billion, and has grown steadily during this period. There were over 49,000 properties sold on the Auction.com platform in 2014 alone. The company's business model has begun to transition from selling distressed assets to selling more traditional, non-distressed properties, especially in the commercial real estate market, where nearly half of the company's sales are non-distressed properties.
"This is an exciting time in the company's history, as we begin to move into the residential and commercial retail markets, and complete our transition from an auction company to a true online marketplace, leveraging internet technology to deliver a much better experience for buyers, sellers and real estate professionals," Morse commented. "Jeff is a visionary and an extraordinary entrepreneur who took a brilliant idea and built it into a company disrupting a $1.6 trillion industry. I'm honored to take on the role of Auction.com CEO, and am humbled that Jeff has entrusted me with the company he created."
In addition to his positions at Yahoo!, Morse was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, CFO at online advertising start-up Adap.tv, which was acquired by AOL, Inc., CFO at Altera Corporation, a San Jose-based maker of programmable logic semiconductors, and CFO and general manager of business development for GE Plastics. Morse spent 15 years with the General Electric Company, where he held positions of increasingly greater responsibility with GE Capital, GE Corporate and GE Appliances. Morse holds a finance and operations & strategic management degree from Boston College.
About Auction.com:
Auction.com, LLC, is the nation's leading online real estate marketplace. Founded in 2007, the company has sold over $30 billion in residential and commercial real estate assets. Auction.com has over 900 employees and headquarters in Irvine and Silicon Valley, California as well as offices in Austin and Plano, Texas, Atlanta, Denver, New York and Miami. Visit www.auction.com for more information.
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