RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 11, 2025--
RealPage ®, a leading global provider of AI-enabled software platforms for the real estate industry, has appointed Dirk Wakeham as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. In conjunction with the appointment, Wakeham also joins the company’s Board of Directors.
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“Returning to RealPage feels like coming home,” said newly appointed Dirk Wakeham, President and Chief Executive Officer, RealPage. “I’m honored to step into this role at such an important moment for the company and our industry. RealPage’s success has always been rooted in partnership and trust. Together, with our customers, we’ll continue creating vibrant communities that deliver great living experiences and help residents achieve financial wellness and lasting success.”
Wakeham brings extensive leadership experience as a six-time CEO and President for Software and SaaS organizations, with a strong focus in PropTech and FinTech. He previously served as Managing Director for Vista Equity Partners and was President of RealPage following its acquisition of LeasingDesk, the company he founded. His track record includes leading organizations such as Zego, Kibo, Lanyon, storEDGE, LeasingDesk, and RealPage through transformational growth.
Wakeham succeeds Dana Jones, who has served as RealPage’s President and CEO since 2021. Under Dana’s leadership, RealPage sharpened its operational discipline, strengthened its financial foundations, and accelerated innovation - expanding the company’s leadership in AI and resident experience.
Charles Goodman, Chairman of the Board of Directors, RealPage, said, “On behalf of the RealPage Board of Directors, we want to thank Dana for her tremendous contributions at RealPage. She has been a trusted leader through a period of significant transformation and growth. We wish her every success in her next chapter.”
Goodman adds, “We welcome Dirk Wakeham back to RealPage. He brings deep industry roots, proven technological leadership, and a long track record of driving scale, innovation, and value creation. I’m confident that Dirk will propel RealPage’s growth and reinforce its position as the technology partner of choice for the real estate industry.”
AboutRealPage, Inc.:
RealPage improves the business of living for both housing providers and residents. As the leading platform for AI-powered real estate operations, we connect property owners, operators, and residents across every stage of the rental journey - creating smarter, more transparent, and more responsive experiences. Our technology unifies marketing, leasing, operations, and financials for over 24 million rental units worldwide, putting AI at the center of real estate. From automating work and turning data into actionable insights to introducing the industry’s first agentic AI workforce, we empower property teams to deliver exceptional living experiences. Through our resident experience platform, LOFT, and an integrated suite of services, RealPage helps millions of residents lease, live, and engage in their communities with greater flexibility and convenience. Backed by Thoma Bravo and recognized by Forbes, Newsweek, and EnergyStar for innovation, sustainability, and workplace culture, RealPage is headquartered in Richardson, Texas, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We’re building the future of real estate by connecting technology, people, and communities. www.realpage.com
Dirk Wakeham brings decades of leadership, SaaS and multifamily experience to lead RealPage’s next chapter of growth
GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) — UConn guard Braylon Mullins might be the talk of college basketball this week. He is still just a small-town Indiana guy at heart.
Here in his hometown of Greenfield, the streets carry common names such as Main and State. American flags and stone buildings dot the town square and those who put this usually low-key 25,000-person city on the map — there aren't many — are revered like family.
So naturally in a state that treats basketball like a religion and the sport's biggest stars like royalty, nobody casts a bigger shadow in this community now than the slender 6-foot-6, 196-pound, 19-year-old freshman who changed Final Four weekend with one brilliant shining moment Sunday afternoon.
Mullins' 35-foot game-winning 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left didn't just make him an instant celebrity or send the Huskies to their third Final Four in four years. In a community full of fans who typically root for Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame or Butler, Mullins has suddenly turned Greenfield, Indiana, into a haven of UConn fans.
“We knew he was good, but for him to go and play all the minutes he has and to perform as well as he has at UConn after being injured the first portion of the year, that’s great,” Greenfield-Central High School athletic director Jared Manning said. “But to do it and have that moment that’s going to live on forever, in maybe the biggest game of his life to this point on national television, we couldn’t have dreamed this up.”
Mullins seemed destined for this type of fame when he started turning heads in middle school even though that's anything but the norm in a city that is just a 37-minute drive from Lucas Oil Stadium where the East Region champion Huskies (33-5) will face South Region champion Illinois (28-8) on Saturday for a trip to the national championship game.
Ask workers and customers at the local coffee counter to name the city's best athletes and former Major League Baseball pitcher Kyle Gibson and pitcher Drey Jamison, who is in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, are often recited. The actual title probably belongs to Jaycie Phelps, who was part of the 1996 Olympic champion gymnastics team dubbed "The Magnificent Seven.”
Mullins is now on the list regardless of what's to come.
Indiana is rife with high school basketball lore and seemingly every school, large or small, owns a chapter in that book. Greenfield-Central has been a rare exception: Neither the boys nor the girls teams have won a state title, and the boys team hasn't won a sectional championship since 1998 despite featuring Mullins for three seasons.
How tough was it? When Luke Meredith took over as coach in 2019-20, he inherited a team that went 4-20 the previous year amid four straight losing seasons. Meredith left as the winningest coach in school history (109-37) following the 2024-25 season, success that came in large part because of Mullins and his family.
Josh, the father, was a former college player at IUPUI, now known as IU-Indianapolis, and served as an assistant for Meredith. Mullins' younger twin brothers, Cole and Clay, also played and are expected to play at a nearby Division III school next season.
It didn't take long for coaches and fans to realize the oldest brother, Braylon, was different.
He personified Meredith's motto — "juice, compete, standard" — by scoring 16.9 points as a sophomore and 25.0 as a junior before averaging 32.9 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists and 4.2 steals as a senior. He broke the school's single-game scoring record twice in his final prep season, scoring 51 and later 52 points.
He wound up as the school's scoring leader (2,158 points) and became the first player in school history to win the prestigious IndyStar Indiana Mr. Basketball Award winner as well as becoming the program's first McDonald's All-American.
So when Mullins made that incredible shot Sunday, nobody in Greenfield was surprised.
“We’ve watched him play basketball since he was in middle school,” Mayor Guy Titus said. “We saw that shot many times here at Greenfield-Central when he was growing up, when he was playing varsity ball here. But to see it on national TV with like everybody comparing it to the Christian Laettner thing — I'm old enough to remember that. It was one of those magical moments."
The Final Four on Saturday will not be the first time Mullins has played close to home since heading to Storrs.
In February, a large contingent of city residents made the short drive into Indianapolis to one of Indiana's most revered basketball cathedrals, Hinkle Fieldhouse. The hometown hero responded well, scoring 13 of his 15 points in the first half of an 80-70 victory over Butler.
Another little exodus could happen again: Manning said he anticipated having discussions this week about whether the school would cancel classes, offer bus rides or both for fans to attend UConn's open practice on Friday, which is scheduled to be held at noon. Even if not, Greenfield faithful are expected to go and cheer their new favorite son.
“When he calls home and asks his dad about this or that, it just reminds he's still a young man who is just like every other college kid,” said Chuck McMichael, deputy chief of the Greenfield Police Department.
McMichael knows because everyone in a town whose biggest festival honors poet James Whitcomb Riley seems to have a personal connection to Mullins.
Josh Holmes, like McMichael, works for the police department and has been Greenfield-Central's longtime school resource officer. Titus happens to be Braylon Mullins' great uncle. All of it has made this college season for the UConn freshman special.
The only thing better would be forcing a change of the signs greeting visitors to Greenfield by winning a national championship.
“When you come into Greenwood, you know, it says Home of Olympic champion Jaycie Phelps and Mr. Basketball Brayton Mullins,” Titus said. “You know Greenfield is known for its the Riley Festival. Now people are calling me, saying, ‘We need to change it to the Mullins Festival, we need to put up a statue of Braylon making the shot.' It’s funny all the comments I've heard.”
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An inspirational hanging outside Greenfield Central High School, where UConn's Braylon Mullins attended, is shown, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Greenfield, Ind. (AP Photo/Mike Marot)
The McDonald's All-American and Indiana Mr. Basketball jersey of Braylon Mullins, who scored the game-winning basket for UConn in the Husky's Elite Eight win over Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament, is displayed in Greenfield Central High School's gymnasium in Greenfield, Ind., Monday, March 30, 2026, following the Husky's Elite Eight win over Duke in the NCAA Tournament. (AP Photo/Mike Marot)
The McDonald's All-American and Indiana Mr. Basketball jersey of Braylon Mullins, who scored the game-winning basket for UConn in the Husky's Elite Eight win over Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament, is displayed in Greenfield Central High School's gymnasium in Greenfield, Ind., Monday, March 30, 2026, following the Husky's Elite Eight win over Duke in the NCAA Tournament. (AP Photo/Mike Marot)
Greenfield Central High School's gymnasium, where UConn's Braylon Mullins attended, is shown, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Greenfield, Ind. (AP Photo/Mike Marot)
A digital sign outside Greenfield Central High School in Greenfield, Ind., congratulates the UConn men's college basketball team and Greenfield graduate Braylon Mullins, Monday, March 30, 2026, following the Husky's Elite Eight win over Duke in the NCAA Tournament. (AP Photo/Mike Marot)
