Real estate website Zillow has hired Dennis Walsh, a former member of Citi’s DR group, to serve as senior manager of IR.
Walsh, who joined the investment bank more than a year ago as vice president for IR advisory, was previously a consultant with Sharon Merrill for 10 years.
An active member of NIRI, Walsh has been on the IR body’s annual conference committee for two consecutive years and served for three years as a director on the Boston chapter’s board. The economics graduate of Saint Anselm College started his career as a First Call analyst at Thomson Financial.
Zillow’s former IRO RJ Jones was promoted to vice president of IR and market intelligence in 2015. Jones won the award for best use of technology by a corporate secretary or general counsel at the 2013 Corporate Governance Awards organized by Corporate Secretary, the former sister publication of IR Magazine that is now digital-only.
Zillow was also shortlisted for the new People’s choice for innovation accolade at this year’s IR Magazine awards – US.
The company, which was launched by the founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia in 2006, has been listed on Nasdaq since 2011. Its share was trading at $21 at time of writing, slightly above its initial offering price.
