{"id":117860,"date":"2024-04-24T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=117860"},"modified":"2024-04-23T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:28:12","slug":"optimal-blue-director-of-data-solutions-brennan-oconnell-named-a-2024-housingwire-rising-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/optimal-blue-director-of-data-solutions-brennan-oconnell-named-a-2024-housingwire-rising-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimal Blue Director of Data Solutions Brennan O’Connell Named a 2024 HousingWire Rising Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLANO, Texas, April 24, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Optimal Blue<\/a> today announced that Brennan O’Connell, director of data solutions, has been honored with the 2024 HousingWire Rising Stars award. The award program celebrates emerging leaders in real estate and mortgage who have demonstrated rapid career growth and an ability to lead, achieving remarkable milestones before the age of 40.<\/p>\n

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Image caption: Brennan O’Connell, director of data solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly proud of Brennan\u2019s accomplishments and the recognition he has received as a 2024 Rising Star,\u201d said Optimal Blue interim CEO Scott Smith. \u201cBrennan inspires those around him each day with his passion for sharing Optimal Blue\u2019s rich data assets with our customers and beyond. He embodies and directly supports our company\u2019s commitment to fostering a more competitive, informed, and successful housing industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connell joined Optimal Blue in 2019 with the task of productizing the company\u2019s data sets for new markets. Since that time, he has expanded customer profiles to include government entities, hedge funds, universities, think tanks, and research institutions.<\/p>\n

Today, O\u2019Connell leads Optimal Blue\u2019s strategy, business development, and sales engineering across all data products, including competitive loan pricing, origination activity, and pipeline hedging and trading. He also serves as an advisor for Optimal Blue clients who are building out their analytics capabilities using Optimal Blue\u2019s data.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most outstanding leaders are forged in times of crisis. As the housing industry navigates the higher-for-longer rate environment, many emerging leaders have come to the surface to guide their companies, teams and clients to a more successful and promising future,” said Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media. “Through Rising Stars, HousingWire has identified these leaders who are making their mark with leadership qualities and innovative ideas. The future will look different, and I’m confident these Rising Stars will play prominent roles in housing’s forward evolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

HousingWire\u2019s selection committee chose this year\u2019s Rising Stars based on their professional achievements within their organizations, contributions to the overall housing economy, community outreach, client impact and personal success. The full list of 2024 HW Rising Stars award winners can be viewed on the HousingWire website.<\/p>\n

About Optimal Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Optimal Blue is a market leader in mortgage secondary marketing technology. The company facilitates transactions among mortgage market participants through its Marketplace Platform, actionable data, and technology vendor connections. The platform supports a range of functions for originators and investors to automate and optimize core processes related to product, pricing, and eligibility, hedge analytics, MSR valuation, loan trading, social media compliance, and counterparty oversight. The company\u2019s premier products are used by 68% of the top 500 mortgage lenders in the U.S. For more information on Optimal Blue\u2019s end-to-end secondary marketing automation, visit\u00a0OptimalBlue.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PLANO, Texas, April 24, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Optimal Blue today announced that Brennan O’Connell, director of data solutions, has been honored with the 2024 HousingWire Rising Stars award. The award program celebrates emerging leaders in real estate and mortgage who have demonstrated rapid career growth and an ability to lead, achieving remarkable milestones before the age of 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9753,"featured_media":117849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1,38,39,19333,55],"tags":[205,10054],"class_list":["post-117860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-honors-news","category-business-news","category-finance-news","category-mortgage-news","category-plano-business","category-texas-news","tag-depthpr","tag-housingwire-rising-star","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":2151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}