Congratulations to Dan Willsie, Auction.com VP of FCL Technology Operations, for winning a 2023 HousingWire Insiders Award.
“I want to thank my team for being an integral part of this award,” said Willsie. “Auction.com continues to look for opportunities to make the foreclosure process more transparent to all parties involved and our team thrives on new ideas and ways to create world-class products to continue evolving the foreclosure process.”
The Insiders Award recognizes operational all-stars who have been essential to a company’s success.
As an Auction.com executive for over 12 years, Willsie has been integral to the company’s technical operations, evolving world-class foreclosure tools to help in the buying and selling of properties.
Those tools include AuctionSync®, which helps digitize the auction experience at the courthouse steps, and Remote Bid™, where users can browse, bid, and win select foreclosure properties from anywhere . Behind the diligence of Willsie’s team, Remote Bid has experienced critical milestones over the last 24 months, including:
- Hitting $1 billion in funding, a 315% increase
- $265 million in total winning bids, a 430% increase
- Unique bids have grown 314%
- Approved bidders have grown 140%
- Now available in 15 states
“Dan and his team form the foundation of Auction.com’s foreclosure business,” said Steve Price, EVP of Foreclosure Auction Services. “There’s nothing foreclosure that Dan doesn’t touch and doesn’t try to improve every day. His innovative thinking, ability to motivate and educate his team, remove friction from auction processes, and build bridges to all regions of the company make him an operational insider who not only keeps the wheels turning but always moving upward toward new levels of excellence.”
Dan is an AMP-certified MBA member and volunteers as a fourth-grade youth hockey coach at a program he helped develop.