ATTOM Data Solutions - Tech Innovator of the Year

Company: ATTOM Data Solutions, Irvine, CA
Company Description: ATTOM Data Solutions provides premium property data to power products that improve transparency, innovation, efficiency and disruption in a data-driven economy. ATTOM multi-sources property tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, environmental risk, natural hazard, and neighborhood data for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties covering 99 percent of the nation’s population.
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Tech Innovator of the Year - Other

Nomination Title: Rob Barber, ATTOM Data Solutions CEO

Tell the story about what this nominated person has achieved since January 1 2018 (up to 650 words). Describe the impact he or she has had on your organization. Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms.

As CEO of ATTOM Data Solutions ( https://www.attomdata.com/), Rob Barber, a 25-year veteran in the real estate information services industry, directs the ongoing curation of the nation’s premier real estate database and product innovation that leverages the company’s data warehouse and data delivery platforms.

Under Rob’s leadership over the past year, ATTOM has successfully completed several strategic initiatives to bring more comprehensive real estate data to the marketplace and provide new data delivery solutions that make the data more widely available to a broad spectrum of companies — from disruptive startups to established market leaders.

Rob joined what was then RealtyTrac as CEO in 2015 and spearheaded the creation of the ATTOM Data Warehouse and the company’s subsequent rebranding as ATTOM Data Solutions in 2016, and since then has worked diligently to solidify the company’s brand as the leading supplier of premium property data fueling real estate transparency.

A few of the company’s key accomplishments since January 1, 2018 include (further expanded upon in the bulleted-list portion of this nomination):

- In February 2018, ATTOM acquired Onboard Informatics the leading provider of neighborhood data and data-enabled turnkey products to the real estate industry. With this acquisition, Onboard’s best-in-class neighborhood data was integrated into the ATTOM Data Warehouse and linked to existing property, boundary and analytic data sets.
- In April 2018, ATTOM was named a 2018 HousingWire Tech100 Winner for its flexible options for data delivery management.
- In August 2018, the company developed and brought to market a cloud-based property data API that provides clients with more flexible and scalable options for property and community data delivery in a one-stop-shop solution.
- In December 2018, ATTOM CEO Rob Barber was selected as a 2018 Vanguard by HousingWire for his outstanding executive leadership contributions in the housing finance industry. Also, in December 2018, Rob was named a 2019 RISMedia Newsmaker for serving as a key influencer and making headlines as a result of his newsworthy contributions to the real estate industry.
- In January 2019, ATTOM was acquired by Lovell Minnick Partners to position the company for sustained growth.
- In March 2019, the company became one of the first property data providers to offer Data-as-a-Service with the launch of ATTOM DaaS, a publishing platform combined with cloud technology, that greatly simplifies data access as well as offers on-demand computing power and storage capacity.

Rob has played a key role in each of these initiatives driven by the company’s mission to increase real estate transparency by arming businesses and consumers with the property data needed to make wise decisions.

ATTOM’s data is foundational for companies innovating within the real estate, mortgage, marketing and insurance industries, fueling software applications and end-user products for these industries most innovative players. We can’t always name names here because of non-disclosure agreements, but ATTOM-fueled companies include Buyers, real estate franchises, lenders and other mortgage service providers, predictive analytics for lead generation, real estate investors and developers, single family rental marketplaces, and insurance claims service providers.

ATTOM’s highly sought-after housing market trend reports are cited in thousands of news reports every month, providing the larger marketplace with objective, data-based insights into market trends. Along with the staples of sales and home price trends, these reports also shed light into often-overlooked segments of the real estate market, including foreclosures, home flipping, home equity, and single-family rentals. These reports receive frequent mention in major print publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times andUSA TODAY, along with national broadcast coverage that includes CBS, ABC, CNN, CNBC, FOX Business and Bloomberg.

In bullet-list form, briefly summarize up to ten (10) of the chief accomplishments of this nominated person since the beginning of 2018.

2018
-February - Acquired Onboard Informatics the leading provider of neighborhood data and data-enabled turnkey products https://www.housingwire.com/articles/42536-attom-data-solutions-acquires-onboard-informatics
-May - Launched a new marketing list creation platform, ATTOM List, for smaller businesses and individual investors https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/67025/attom-data-solutions-launches-housing-data-platform
-June - Introduced a new lender-grade Automated Valuation Model (AVM) https://www.inman.com/2018/06/26/new-tool-attomized-avm-estimates-property-values-for-80-million-homes/
-August - Consolidated its premium property, neighborhood, analytic and boundary data into one self-service API platform http://rismedia.com/2018/08/26/attom-data-solutions-launches-consolidated-api-platform-property-neighborhood-boundary-data/
-October - Successfully completed a 50 Terabyte migration to Microsoft’s Azure Platform through its partnership with Denny Cherry & Associates https://www.inman.com/2018/11/05/attom-data-solutions-moves-property-database-onto-the-cloud/
-December - CEO Rob Barber was selected as a 2018 Vanguard by HousingWire https://www.housingwire.com/articles/47526-meet-the-2018-hw-vanguard-award-winners
-December - Integrated expanded boundary data into its property data warehouse https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/attom-data-solutions-integrates-enhanced-boundary-data-into-its-us-property-data-warehouse-300767217.html

2019
-January - CEO Rob Barber was named a 2019 RISMedia Newsmaker https://rismedia.com/newsmaker/?id=32
-January - Acquired by Lovell Minnick Partners to position the company for sustained growth https://www.mpamag.com/news/attom-data-solutions-acquired-by-pe-firm-121887.aspx
-March - Became one of the first property data providers to offer Data-as-a-Service with the launch of ATTOM DaaS https://www.inman.com/2019/03/08/attom-data-solutions-launches-cutting-edge-cloud-based-service/