The team building Lone Wolf's next chapter

A closer look at the executive group leading Lone Wolf Technologies into 2026 and the work they have been brought together to do.

Walk into any Lone Wolf product conversation in 2026, and you'll notice something different. The executive team at Lone Wolf Technologies has been intentionally rebuilt over the past several months around a single question: What kind of company does the real estate industry actually need now?

This post is an introduction to the people answering that question.

A leadership refresh, on purpose

A leadership change of this scope tends to invite speculation, so here is the straightforward version. Lone Wolf has spent the last two years rebuilding its data foundation. That includes the back-office, transaction, and analytics work required to make AI useful in real estate. With that foundation now in place, the company has brought in new leaders specifically equipped to build what comes next.

Each member of this team was chosen for a specific reason. Together, they reflect a deliberate choice. Bring in people who have built and scaled customer-centered software outside real estate. Then partner with industry voices who know how the business actually runs.

Matt Fischer, Chief Executive Officer

Matt joined Lone Wolf as Chief Executive Officer in 2026 from outside the real estate technology industry. His background is in enterprise software leadership, with experience scaling organizations through periods of structural transformation. His focus since arriving has been on listening before promising. Through the spring, he has met with brokerages, MLS leaders, coaches, and analysts across the country. The conversations have one purpose: understand where Lone Wolf's products are working, where they are falling short, and what an honest path forward looks like.

Matt's view on AI in real estate is grounded rather than promotional. He has been clear that AI does not solve a fragmented data problem. A unified foundation does. That distinction shapes how Lone Wolf is approaching its 2026 product roadmap.

Read more about Matt on his bio page.

J.R. Stricker, Chief Customer Officer

J.R. joined Lone Wolf as Chief Customer Officer in April 2026. He brings 30 years of global customer experience leadership across Genesys, Bullhorn, and AT&T Mobility, and is the founder of Phoenix CX Consulting Services, a firm that helps mid-market organizations diagnose what is broken in their customer operations before recommending technology change.

Two parts of his record matter for what he is being asked to build at Lone Wolf. At Bullhorn, he led a 44-point Net Promoter Score improvement through proactive customer success work. At Genesys, he ran a global support organization that reduced cost-to-support by 37 percent through journey orchestration. Both numbers describe the same underlying skill: getting customer experience systems to function as a connected whole instead of a series of departmental handoffs.

His mandate at Lone Wolf is to own the end-to-end customer journey, from sales through onboarding to ongoing support, so that customers no longer have to repeat their story or navigate friction between teams. It is a ground-up rebuild of how the company shows up for the people using its software every day.

Read more about J.R. on his bio page.

Alan Matuszak, Chief Technology Officer

Alan is the newest member of the executive team to join us in May 2026. He brings more than 25 years of engineering and IT leadership across mortgage technology, healthcare payments, clinical research software, and enterprise SaaS.

What makes Alan's background particularly relevant to Lone Wolf customers is where his career has been. As CTO at eLynx Ltd. for nearly a decade, he led the technology behind a SaaS platform serving seven of the top ten financial institutions in the U.S. mortgage industry. Earlier in his career, he designed AIM for Windows, a real estate settlement software package that grew to serve more than 5,000 title insurance agencies. He has also served on the American Land Title Association's Technology Committee. He has worked inside the mortgage, title, and settlement layers that touch every real estate transaction, and he understands what brokerages, lenders, and title agencies need from their software.

Most recently, Alan has led technology organizations at Greenphire, Medidata Solutions, Jenzabar, and Rectangle Health, where he served as CTO before accepting the role at Lone Wolf. Across those companies, his pattern is consistent: modernizing legacy systems, integrating teams and platforms after acquisitions, building strong engineering organizations, and shipping software customers want to use. He has taken on three major IT transformation projects at public companies and led system integrations across four corporate acquisitions, with cost reductions ranging from 40 to 70 percent.

Alan's mandate at Lone Wolf is the technical execution of the Foundation platform vision. The work ahead includes maturing the data infrastructure, advancing AI capabilities responsibly, and making sure that what the company ships continues to earn the trust of brokerages, agents, MLSs, and partners who depend on it every day.

Read more about Alan on his bio page.

Lone Wolf executives taking on new roles to lead the next chapter

Aaron Kardell, Chief Innovation Officer

Aaron's title is new in 2026. His relationship with Lone Wolf is not. He founded HomeSpotter in 2009 and led the company through its 2021 acquisition by Lone Wolf, where he spent the following years running product for the Promote family of solutions. The decision to elevate him to the Chief Innovation Officer role reflects something specific. Lone Wolf wanted innovation reporting at the C-suite level, led by someone who has actually built and scaled real estate software from zero.

Aaron has spent more than two decades shipping products in the SaaS space, with a track record that spans mobile, lead generation, and consumer-facing search. His most recent product work at Lone Wolf included the launch of Inkless, a developer-first eSignature platform with transparent pricing and full API access from day one. That model reflects exactly the direction Lone Wolf is leaning into: software designed for partners to build on rather than work around. 

In the new role, Aaron leads the company's innovation function, focusing on AI integration, partner-facing platform development, and the incubation work that turned HomeSpotter into a category leader.

Read more about Aaron on his bio page.

Jake Hamilton, SVP of Product and Strategy

Jake expanded his role in April 2026 to lead product strategy alongside the corporate development team he already runs. A multi-time honoree across HousingWire’s Rising Star and Inman’s Future Leaders programs, he has spent his career translating what brokerages and agents do day-to-day into software they will use. His mandate is to make sure Lone Wolf’s roadmap reflects the operational reality of the industry, the connective tissue between what customers ask for and what Lone Wolf delivers. Jake spends his time with the brokerages, MLSs, franchise leaders, and partners who run the transactions Lone Wolf software is built to support, and he carries that perspective back into how the company decides what to build. 

Read more about Jake on his bio page.

Continuity at the leadership table

A new chapter does not mean starting from scratch. Three executives anchor the team with deep continuity in their roles.

• Lisa Lausten, Chief Marketing Officer, leads brand, communications, and the strategic positioning work that connects Lone Wolf's product direction to the conversations happening across the industry.
• Mike Barna, Chief Financial Officer, oversees the financial discipline that supports a multi-year platform investment cycle.
• Vanessa Hodge, Chief Revenue Officer, leads sales through a market that is rewarding companies that connect product capability to customer value.

What this team is built to do

The shape of this leadership group reflects what Lone Wolf is building toward.

A unified Foundation platform that treats data as something the entire industry can build on. A customer experience that finally stops feeling like a sequence of departmental handoffs.

Innovation guided by people who have actually built and scaled software, working in partnership with industry voices who know the operational ground truth.

The PropTech Advisory Board, which Lone Wolf launched in 2025, sits at the center of this work. Five board members are now embedded in product councils for the next round of product evolution. That gives Lone Wolf a real-time customer perspective during development rather than at the launch readout. The board's input shapes what gets built, when, and how it is released.

What customers will see next

New product capabilities are scheduled to begin rolling out mid-year, with broker analytics and transaction management leading the wave. AI capabilities will arrive integrated into Lone Wolf's foundation rather than bolted onto it.

The earned trust required to deliver on that arc is what this leadership group has been working on, conversation by conversation, since the start of the year.

For an updated view of the full executive team, visit the Lone Wolf leadership page.