Friday, December 5, 2025

Person Of The Week

John Walsh: Automation Is Key To Comprehensive Property Valuation

PERSON OF THE WEEK: John Walsh is president of San Diego-based property data and analytics company DataQuick. MortgageOrb recently interviewed Walsh to learn...

Stanley Street: Regulations Could Have Big Impact On Warehouse Lending

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Stanley Street is president of Street Resource Group, which provides information systems and business process consulting to the financial...

Kevin Wall: Borrower Engagement Is Key To The Loan Modification Process

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Kevin Wall is president of Santa Ana, Calif.-based First American Mortgage Services, a division of First American Title Insurance...

Paul Imura: Innovation Will Transform The Mortgage Banking Industry

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Paul Imura is chief marketing officer for ISGN Corp., an end-to-end provider of mortgage technology and services. He is...

Barry Hays: Servicers Need To Make Lemonade Out Of CFPB’s Lemons

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Barry Hays is co-founder and senior vice president of TeleVoice, a provider of call center solutions to the mortgage...

David Rasmussen: New Regulations Driving Innovation In The Mortgage Biz

David Rasmussen is senior vice president, operations, for Veros, a provider of risk management and collateral valuation services to the real estate industry....

Mike Hardwick: Churchill Mortgage Keeps Bucking Industry Trends

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Mike Hardwick is founder of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Churchill Mortgage, which recently announced that it was offering employees a 49%...

Sanjeev Dahiwadkar: Compliance Not Possible Without Technology

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Sanjeev Dahiwadkar is CEO and president of IndiSoft, a technology development firm that focuses on systems for the financial...

Roger Beane: New OCC Guidelines Mean Lenders Must Pick Vendors Carefully

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Roger Beane is CEO of LRES, a national provider of commercial and residential valuations and asset management for the...

Joe Mowery: Lenders, Service Providers Need To Eliminate Redundancies

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Joe Mowery is president of LenderLive Settlement Services, offering lenders and servicers an array of title insurance, title services...

Brent Taggart: REO-To-Rental Securitization Is Here

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Brent Taggart is senior vice president of the client management group at real estate owned (REO) asset management firm...

Narayan Bharadwaj: Technology And Risk Management Go Hand-In-Hand

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Narayan Bharadwaj is business head at Wipro Gallagher Solutions, a provider of end-to-end technology solutions to mortgage lenders. MortgageOrb...

ISGN’s Amit Kothiyal: Home Equity Lending Will Rise In 2014

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Amit Kothiyal is CEO of ISGN, an end-to-end provider of mortgage technology and services. MortgageOrb interviewed Kothiyal to learn...

Barbara Cooper-Jones: Technology Continues To Reshape Mortgage Market

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Barbara Cooper-Jones is senior vice president of the office of enterprise data and technology solutions for Ginnie Mae. MortgageOrb...

Kingsley Kodan: Shift To Purchase Market Creates Challenges, Opportunities

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Kingsley Kodan is senior vice president of sales for Equity Loans.MortgageOrb interviewed Kodan to learn more about the company's...

Earl Cummings: REO-To-Rental Could Be A Sustainable Strategy

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Earl Cummings is president and CEO for BestAssets, a nationwide REO (real estate owned) management company. MortgageOrb interviewed Cummings...

Jim Blatt: For Effective Marketing, Lenders Need ‘Complete’ CRM System

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Jim Blatt is the CEO and co-founder of St. Louis, Mo.-based Mortgage Returns, a provider of database-driven, automated marketing...

Jonathan Kunkle: Mortgage Industry Needs To Be More Data-Driven

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Jonathan Kunkle is president of LenderLive Network's GuardianDocs division. MortgageOrb recently interviewed Kunkle to get his views on how...

Marko Berishaj: Crucial Changes Must Be Made To CFPB’s 3% Cap Rule

PERSON OF THE WEEK: Marko Berishaj is executive vice president of Port Huron, Mich.-based Michigan Mutual Inc., a full-service residential mortgage lender licensed...

Bill Robinson: Title Insurance Industry Needs Better Data Security Standards

PERSON OF THE WEEK: William Robinson is president of Michigan-based Attorneys Title Agency (ATA), a full-service title agency providing comprehensive services to companies...