Online real estate broker Redfin Corporation today announced the hiring of David Wilner as vice president of real estate operations. Responsible for both strategy and execution, Wilner's charter is to deliver on the company's 100 percent customer satisfaction guarantee and to expand Redfin's real estate business nationwide.

"Redfin is changing the way people buy and sell homes and I am thrilled to be part of it," said Wilner. "With already more than $1 million in refunds, serving customers buying multi-million dollar homes, and near-perfect customer satisfaction, Redfin's growth potential is staggering."

Wilner is a licensed broker in Washington with nearly ten years of residential, commercial and multi-family real estate experience; he also was formerly a partner with one of the country's largest law firms.

Wilner most recently served as vice president of sales at LexisNexis where he was responsible for all sales operations in the organization's fastest growing business unit. Before that, Wilner was an early executive and vice president of sales and business development for Applied Discovery, a provider of risk and litigation management software and services to Fortune 1000 companies. Wilner established the sales operations for Applied Discovery, managed a successful acquisition and stayed on to grow the business to $75 million in revenues and more than $30 million in profit.

"Dave is the ideal Redfin executive, with deep real estate and legal expertise, but also a history of building high-tech startups into large, profitable businesses," said Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman. "We spent months searching across the country for someone who could scale our business nationwide with the passion for customer service, the Redfin flair for innovation, and the grinding financial discipline that are the only reasons we're here today. Just as we wondered whether such a person even existed, we found in Dave a world-class executive. His hiring is a major milestone for Redfin."

Redfin (www.redfin.com) is the real estate industry's first online brokerage, combining a customer-focused team of real estate agents with online tools for making the process of buying or selling a home easy. Redfin is the only major search site to feature listings direct from broker databases as well as for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure properties from across the Internet. The company pays its agents customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions, and surveys every client, publishing each survey as well as details on the agent's negotiating performance and deal history. Redfin's service is available in the metropolitan areas of Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, New York's Long Island and Westchester County as well as most of California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California and Sacramento. To keep track of our daring exploits, subscribe to blog.redfin.com or our Twitter feed @redfin.