CORELOGIC - Key Persons
Aaron Henry - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary
Job Titles:
- Chief Legal Officer
- Corporate Secretary
Aaron Henry is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary at CoreLogic. In this role, Henry is responsible for CoreLogic's global Legal and Compliance functions.
Henry brings a track record of strong leadership and a wealth of experience across the legal and compliance spectrum to CoreLogic. Prior to joining Core Logic in November 2019, Henry served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at MoneyGram International. Prior to MoneyGram, Aaron served in senior legal roles at The Western Union Company and First Data Corporation.
Henry holds an economics degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate from George Washington University.
Job Titles:
- General Manager
- Senior Executive
- President, Enterprise Digital Solutions
Devi Mateti is an experienced senior executive general manager with a record of successfully leading strategy, innovation, customer- focused new product development, and go-to-market for companies in the technology, information and data services sectors. Currently, Mateti serves as President, Enterprise Digital Solutions, overseeing CoreLogic's property intelligence, data licensing and real estate solutions which collectively support the process of targeting, selecting and marketing a new or existing home during the sale process.
Mateti was previously the Chief Data Officer, with responsibility for Data and Analytics strategy, innovation, operations and product fulfillment. He also served as the Executive General Manager for CoreLogic's Collateral Valuations Technology business unit where he was responsible for strategy, acquisitions, innovation and sales for the market leading technology and risk management platforms that serve 1000+ mortgage lenders and financial services clients.
Prior to CoreLogic, Mateti worked at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) for six years where he served as senior vice president of Product Management for their Risk and Supply Chain Management Solutions. While there he held responsibility for D&B's flagship Risk and Supply SaaS solutions generating more than $500M in revenue.
Previously in his career, Mateti worked at Boston Consulting Group as a top-tier strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies in technology, financial services, and consumer goods industries. Additionally, Devi was technical product development lead at Bloomberg LP where he led an international team of software engineers developing products for trading systems and exchanges in the financial services industry. Mateti holds an MBA from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a Master's in Computer Science from Syracuse University.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- President, Insurance Solutions
Garret Gray is an executive leader who is the President of CoreLogic's Protect Business Unit. Gray leads a team of industry experts focused on building market-driven solutions that drive better customer outcomes throughout the property insurance ecosystem.
Prior to this, Gray led CoreLogic's claims operations to drive transformative change and provide insurance carriers and contractors with solutions to enhance the claims experience.
Previously, Gray was the founder and CEO of Next Gear Solutions, acquired by CoreLogic in August 2021. Next Gear is an industry-leading source of water mitigation, job and sales management software and claim scoping and auditing solutions. Next Gear's tools are used by 8,700-plus restoration companies across the United States and Canada and most of the top 25 U.S. insurance carriers.
Job Titles:
- Executive
- President, Mortgage Solutions
Jay Kingsley is a proven executive with over 25 years of strategic and operational leadership experience in the mortgage, insurance and consulting industries. Currently, Kingsley acts as the President, Buy, overseeing mortgage analytics, collateral valuation and escrow services. Prior to this, Kingsley served in a number of important senior operational and strategic roles at CoreLogic, including as Chief Transformation Officer, and as the leader overseeing Credit & Borrower Solutions, which under his leadership, launched industry-leading solutions including AutomatIQ Borrower and transformed the business to achieve double-digit revenue growth.
Prior to joining CoreLogic, Kingsley served as vice president of mortgage default servicing at HSBC. He also spent time as director of servicing strategy and business development for HSBC, managing rating agency relationships and developing new product and servicing strategies for the company's mortgage business.
Kingsley was formerly director of strategy and business development at Allstate Financial and also led consulting engagements in a strategic capacity while at A.T. Kearney and Ernst & Young. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology from Northwestern University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Jeff Henry is the Head of Technology at CoreLogic. In this role, he is responsible for the ongoing transformation of Corelogic's digital infrastructure and information technology with a goal of delivering sophisticated yet frictionless technology that enables faster time to market product delivery, seamless operations and superior employee and customer experience.
Jeff has more than 25 years of successfully running global enterprise technology organizations and strategic programs. Since joining CoreLogic in 2017, he has led cloud strategy, migration and operations, as well as the Infrastructure and Security Operations teams.
Prior to joining CoreLogic, Jeff led multiple global technology organizations, strategic programs and enterprise architecture teams at Nielsen and Ernst & Young. Jeff received his dual bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems and Accounting from Arizona State University.
Jim Balas is the chief financial officer of CoreLogic, responsible for overseeing the financial reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, capital allocation, risk management as well as the corporate finance functions including our financial planning and analysis and business finance teams. Balas also plays a key role in strategic initiatives including mergers & acquisitions and the company's transformation and productivity programs. Additionally, he oversees long-term tax planning, cost management policies, control and reporting operations.
Balas initially joined CoreLogic in March of 2011, as senior vice president, controller and principal accounting officer. In 2012, his role expanded to include oversight of finance in addition to his other responsibilities. Prior to joining the company, Balas held a variety of senior finance leadership positions at several publicly traded companies after a successful 10-year career at Ernst & Young and Capgemini.
Balas is a CPA and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Job Titles:
- Chief Innovation Officer
- Role of Chief Innovation Officer for CoreLogic and Is Responsible for the R & D
John Rogers holds the role of Chief Innovation Officer for CoreLogic and is responsible for the R&D. From driving new solutions that understand the impacts to the real estate economy due to climate change, to ground-breaking models that identify suitable land for affordable housing development, the R&D group tackles major housing issues and works with many clients across the housing industry to drive growth and mitigate risk on their book of business.
Prior to joining CoreLogic, John was a Partner with IBM Global Business Services where he focused on the delivery of large multi-million transformational programs for the financial sector both in the United Kingdom and Australia. Prior to this, John worked as a consultant for Itim Consulting, a boutique management firm based in London. John's primary role was as a program manager on a number of assignments delivering global solutions within retail, pharmaceuticals, logistics and information services industries.
John earned a bachelor's degree from University of Glasgow, United Kingdom in Aerospace Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
Kendra Angier serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer at CoreLogic. In this role, Kendra leads overall HR strategy, including talent management, leadership development and diversity & inclusion.
Kendra has held HR roles at various companies, including Viant Technology, Ingram Micro Inc., PepsiCo, Anderson Consulting, to name a few. She brings a vast array of global leadership experience having led world-class HR teams to attract, develop, engage and reward diverse talents. As a global HR executive with more than 20 years of experience, she has led large-scale HR operations, helped improve organizational capabilities and fostered high-performance cultures. As a champion of diversity and inclusion, she strives to help teams and individuals reach their full potential.
Kendra earned her MBA from the University of San Francisco and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and lives in southern California.
Job Titles:
- Chief Brand and Communications Officer
- in 2022 As the Chief Communications Officer
Kristie Vainikos Stegen joined CoreLogic in 2022 as the Chief Communications Officer. Her team engages with internal and external audiences to enhance CoreLogic's reputation.
Prior to CoreLogic, Kristie was the Chief Communications Officer at NielsenIQ. She previously led NielsenIQ's North America marketing and communications team as well as global communications for Nielsen's U.S. consumer business, global internal communications and alumni relations. She also co-led Nielsen's social responsibility and sustainability efforts. Prior to joining Nielsen, Kristie held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility in marketing and communications at Citigroup and Avis/Budget Group. Under her leadership, NielsenIQ was the 2020 Gold Stevie Award winner for Communications Department of the Year. Kristie serves on the board of directors of Bernie's Book Bank.
Kristie holds a bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Job Titles:
- President, International
- International in 2016 As Managing Director
Lisa Claes joined CoreLogic International in 2016 as Managing Director, responsible for its operations across Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. With more than 25 years of leadership experience, Claes' executive capabilities extend across digital and data analytics, omni-channel management, product development and risk management directed towards transforming mature businesses to deliver profit sustainably and create outstanding customer advocacy. These skills have been honed across the retail banking, financial services and property industries and have been applied both locally and internationally at scale.
Immediately prior to joining CoreLogic, Claes served as an Executive Director for the Dutch banking giant, ING, responsible for its Australian retail and commercial banking operations while holding broader accountabilities for data, digital and lending transformation strategies as part of ING's global Retail & Mortgage Councils.
Earlier in her career Claes practiced as a barrister, served as General Counsel and Head of Compliance & Operational Risk for both ING in Australia and the diversified financial services group Mercantile Mutual.
Claes earned a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts/Laws from the University of Queensland.
Matt Kjernes is the Head of Engineering at CoreLogic. In this role, he is responsible for the technology strategy, build and operations of CoreLogic's applications with the goal of delivering a rich user experience for the vast population of property professionals that CoreLogic supports t through its industry leading capabilities.
Throughout Matt's career, he has led several strategic teams focusing on technology M&A, software asset management, technology strategy, architecture, big data/data warehousing, B2B/API, and product engineering.
At CoreLogic, Matt has partnered with his peers to drive an overall technology strategy resulting in a cloud enabled platform where Matt oversaw the implementation of CoreLogic's AI enabled Big Data Platform, API Gateway and next generation set of products and services.
Prior to CoreLogic, Matt spent 10+ years in P&C Insurance technology with West Bend Mutual Insurance and Marshall and Swift/Boeckh, which was acquired by CoreLogic in 2014.
Matt holds a Management Computer Systems degree from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Pat Dodd joined CoreLogic in 2020 as the Chief Operating & Growth Officer and was named President and CEO in January 2022. Over the past three decades, Dodd has held senior executive leadership positions at Nielsen and predecessor companies, ultimately rising to Global President and Chief Commercial Officer of the $3 billion Nielsen Global Connect division in January 2019.
Previously, he led Nielsen's International Division, spanning to over 100 markets around the world. Prior to that, he was responsible for overseeing Nielsen's business operations in 23 of the world's fastest-growing markets and held numerous senior leadership positions, including serving as President of Nielsen Europe, China and Canada.
Dodd serves on the board of Bitmovin, a global, online media streaming platform designed to offer video infrastructure for online media companies.
Dodd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.
Job Titles:
- Sales Contact
- Home / Mortgage / Appraiser Solutions / Marshall & Swift
- Product Support
Job Titles:
- Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Sachin Rajpal is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer for CoreLogic, responsible for collecting, curating, managing and enriching real estate property data. Sachin leads CoreLogic's big data initiative, Smart Data Platform, which leverages Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to connect & improve various property data assets. Sachin joined CoreLogic in 2018 as general manager in the CoreLogic Valuations Platforms division, responsible for organic growth, product innovation and implementation.
Prior to CoreLogic, Sachin worked for Dun & Bradstreet, where he served in various key roles for their flagship risk management platform, spanning innovation, strategy, product development, product marketing and sales enablement. He was also a former director at PwC, where he specialized in information security & compliance.
Sachin received his MBA in Finance from New York University and a BS degree in Computer Science & Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Selma Hepp is the Chief Economist for CoreLogic, America's largest provider of advanced property and ownership information, analytics and data-enabled services. Selma leads the economics team, which is responsible for analyzing, interpreting and forecasting housing and economic trends in real estate, mortgage and insurance.
Prior to joining CoreLogic in 2020, Selma was Chief Economist and Vice President of Business Intelligence for Pacific Union International, later acquired by Compass, where she oversaw the vital economic and technology intelligence to drive the expanding brokerage's success. Selma also held the role of Chief Economist for Trulia; Senior Economist for the California Association of Realtors; and Economist and Manager for Public Policy and Homeownership research for the National Association of Realtors, as well as a special research assistant at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Selma frequently appears on local and national radio and television programs and has been widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and many industry trade publications such as National Mortgage News and HousingWire. Selma received the HousingWire Women of Influence Award in 2022. She has served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), NABE Real Estate Roundtable co-chair, Board member of the International Student Exchange Program, Advisory Board member of the REALTOR® University Research Center Editorial Review and a Member of the Housing Policy Debate Editorial Advisory Board. Selma held a Real Estate Associate professional license in Florida and Virginia.
Selma graduated from the State University of New York, Buffalo with an M.A. in Economics and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Waqas Cheema is the Chief Operations Officer at CoreLogic. In this role, he is responsible for leading CoreLogic's strategic transformation to a world-leading data driven technology company. In addition, Waqas also heads the enterprise operations teams where he is responsible for revenue operations, deployment, production, delivery and servicing functions with a goal of delivering improved operating performance and providing superior employee and customer experience.
Waqas brings more than 20 years of experience to CoreLogic in leading global data and technology organizations. He has a track record of driving enterprise value through the end-to-end transformation of operations, technology and commercial functions.
Prior to joining CoreLogic, Waqas was at NielsenIQ, where he most recently served as Chief Operating Officer, Global Consumer Insights. Over his 11-year career at Nielsen, Waqas also held executive-level roles leading Client Success, Operations and Technology organizations across the globe. Prior to Nielsen, Waqas served in a variety of operations leadership roles at Recall and General Electric.
Waqas received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton School.