Sherry Allen Joins the Money Store as Regional Manager of Northern California

The Money Store announced the hire of Sherry Allen, Regional Manager of Northern California. Sherry has almost thirty years of mortgage banking experience and a diverse background, working at National and Regional lenders across the country. In her new senior role, Sherry proudly returns to The Money Store where she began her career 28 years ago.

Sherry began at The Money Store, as Asstistant Vice President for eight years to the Executive Office.  Sherry was the first employee hired in Sacramento offices of The Money Store, where she held various management roles for its Mortgage Division. In recent years, Sherry contributed to both Guaranteed Rate as Senior Vice President/Regional Manager and CMG Financial as Regional Vice President serving Northern California and Hawaii.

As Regional Manager, Sherry will leverage her experience and relationships, reintroduce The Money Store brand and grow the organization throughout NorCal. Sherry has successful partnerships with many realtor associations, women’s organizations, mortgage professional and builder associations at the local and state level during her career and we are pleased to have her represent The Money Store as a brand ambassador with these organizations.

Lori Eshoo, Former President & CEO of National Tax Search Takes on New Role at CoreLogic

Innovator, entrepreneur and industry leader, Lori Eshoo has taken on the new role of Executive, Commercial Operations for Corelogic. Lori revolutionized tax servicing in 1997 when she founded National Tax Search, building the industry’s most comprehensive, full-service technology platform to automate complex tax management processes. Under Lori’s leadership, NTS has reduced risk and saved lenders and investors millions in potential loss.

In September 2019, Corelogic announced the completion of the company’s acquisition of National Tax Search, LLC.  This acquisition highlights Lori’s success and recognizes NTS’ leading technology and excellence in customer service. Her unmatched expertise and personal commitment to client success will continue in her role with Corelogic.

In addition to building National Tax Search, Lori is active in the industry. She has won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was named to the Ernst and Young Hall of Fame. She has received American Business Stevies Awards for the International Women Entrepreneurs in Technology and Best Entrepreneur in Business under 100 Employees. Most recently, Lori was named as one of the Top 25 Industry Leaders and Influencers in the February 2019 MReport. Under her leadership, National Tax Search earned multiple other business and customer service awards such as The Top 100 Women Owned Businesses in Illinois and the Top 100 Diversity Owned Businesses in Illinois. She is a board member of the American Mortgage Diversity Council, and a member of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.

CU Members Mortgage Hires Credit Union Lending Expert Renee Kontros as Pipeline Manager

CU Members Mortgage, a division of Colonial Savings, F.A., hired Credit Union mortgage lending expert Renee Kontros as Pipeline Manager. She will be responsible for managing the mortgage pipeline for all direct lending credit union partners providing supervision for each loan to ensure on-time closings and increase member and credit union satisfaction.

Renee previously managed processing for three credit unions originating more than $1 billion annually. She is well known for increasing member survey scores to more than 96%, streamlining processes to double production volume and opening communication with clients. She’s held various other lending positions including processing supervisor, closer, processor and loan officer assistant and has vast experience working with challenges such as self-employed applicants, problematic credit histories, government loan products and construction loans.

“Renee’s extensive background specializing in challenging loan processing will expand our ability to serve credit unions nationwide in this dynamic market,” said Steve Hewins, Senior Vice-President of CU Members Mortgage. “She has the skills we have searched for to tackle complex transactions we are processing today for our credit union partners and their members.”

Heartland Bank Hires Misty Heath as Mortgage Banker

Heartland Bank and Trust Company announced that Misty Heath has been named as Mortgage Banker to serve local customers. In her new role, she serves customers in eight local communities and is based at the bank’s 179 East Courtland Street branch in Morton, IL. She is responsible for assisting customers with residential lending needs including new home mortgages, mortgage refinancing, and second mortgages. Heath brings 21 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry to Heartland Bank.

“Misty is a dedicated and energetic lender and she is an experienced professional in our local communities,” said Samantha Brown, Heartland Bank Mortgage Sales Manager. “We are thankful to have her on our team.”

Planet Home Lending has added Three Key Production Executives to Support its Growing Retail Channel

Toni Brumfield, will serve as Area Manager, and Tammy Conner will be retail branch manager in Planet Home Lending’s San Antonio, TX offices. Toni comes to Planet Home Lending from Legacy Mutual Mortgage, where she served as a sales manager. Prior to that, she held a similar role at Bank of Texas. Her financial experience includes origination, training loan officers, and management of operations and sales teams.

Prior to joining Planet Home Lending, Tammy was a branch manager for Hometrust Mortgage Company, San Antonio. During her nearly three decades in the business she’s developed a reputation for excellence in coaching, integrity, and superior customer service.

Kelly Whittington, has been hired as branch manager for the company’s Columbus, Ohio, office. She brings over 30 years of financial experience to her new role. Kelly’s financial background includes mortgage lending, retail banking, private banking, and business banking with expertise in homebuyer down payment assistance programs and renovation loans.

First Class Mortgage Hires Two New Mortgage Processors

First Class Mortgage, a locally owned Mortgage Broker with offices in Fargo, Grand Forks and Maple Grove, North Dakota, has hired Laura Helgeson and Leah Hendricks as mortgage processors. Laura is from Fargo and has prior experience in the inside sales industry. She earned an Associate Degree in Financial and Credit Services Administration from MSCTC, Moorhead. Leah is from Harwood and has four years’ experience in the insurance industry. She earned an Associate Degree in Dental Hygiene and Liberal Arts.

New Mortgage Loan Originator Hires at Planet Home Lending

In September and October, Planet Home Lending welcomed seven new mortgage loan originators in offices nationwide: Pamela Cummings, Round Rock, TX; Dalene Pivetta, Westchester, OH; Lynnette Shaul, Modesto; Barbara Carter, Wichita; Dee Anderson, San Antonio; Brandi Harris, Shreveport; and, Alexis Mazer, Las Vegas.

Robin Belanger and Amie McCarthy Joins Nationwide Title’s Award-Winning Executive Team

Nationwide Title Clearing, the post-closing services provider, has added to their award-winning executive team.

Robin Belanger will join the company’s team of elite executives as Vice President focusing on enhancing NTC’s offering in the document certification, custody and capital markets area of the industry; and, Amie McCarthy as Vice President of Business Development for Capital Markets.

Robin joins NTC with over 20 years of experience in the mortgage banking industry. For the past 10 years, she has worked for Fannie Mae in multiple positions. She started as the manager of Multifamily Certification and Custody Operations and became the Director of Multifamily Acquisitions. She spent the last five years as a Director of Governance where she was responsible for oversight of Fannie Mae’s 25 Document Custodians and strategic initiatives.

Robin was a past Vice-Chair and Chair within the Mortgage Bankers of America’s (MBA) document custody group and has presented at many MBA document custody conferences.

Amie has over 25 years’ experience in mortgage finance, structured products and banking.  Her core competencies include primary and secondary marketing, underwriting, valuation, portfolio management, servicing and regulatory compliance. She brings product life cycle experience, which clients can leverage to improve processes, controls, and best execution on mortgage transactions.

Prior to joining NTC, Amie was with Grant Thornton, where she focused on banking and regulatory projects. McCarthy’s experience includes roles with capital markets at firms such as Credit Suisse, Nomura Securities and Bank of America. She managed the acquisition, trading, securitization, and whole loan sales of agency and non-agency residential and commercial mortgages. She has managed asset backed transactions with auto loans, student loans, small business loans and credit card receivables.

Laila Khan of Guidance Residential Wins Trailblazer Award

Guidance Residential’s Laila Khan has been named a 2019 Sales, Marketing & PR Trailblazer by Progress in Lending Association.  Early in her Guidance Residential tenure, Laila was the Preprocessing Lead then transitioned into an Account Manager. She was entrenched in day-to-day customer interactions and developed a deep understanding of the customer journey. In May 2018, she was selected by the company’s leadership to transition to the Marketing and Communications Lead role. Given her roots in the community and the expertise she had amassed as an integral part of the Operations team.

Over the past 12 months, Guidance Residential has been focused on one thing: improving the customer journey. Every initiative, every project, and every decision had to align with that goal. Laila has been able to identify, and successfully implement strategic areas of improvement with regards to the company’s previous lack of brand awareness, within and outside its niche market. Her efforts have increased the company’s social media presence, successfully connected the organization with B2B industry leaders, dramatically improved the customer journey, and coordinated all efforts to get Guidance Residential recognized. And in September 2019, she was named one of Progress in Lending’s sales, marketing and PR trailblazers. Congratulations, Laila!