CALIFORNIA
MISSION VIEJO
Comergence, a provider of third-party vendor and risk-management platforms for the mortgage industry, hired Jamie Giorello as business development manager.
Giorello has more than20 years of senior-level sales experience in title, appraisal, settlement and default services.
Before joining Comergence, she was vice president of national business development at RealMetrix.
SAN DIEGO
ClosingCorp said that Pat Carney has joined the company as executive program manager, title channel.
In this position, Carney will be a member of the ClosingCorp executive team and have a strategic focus on the title and settlement ecosystem.
He brings more than two decades of experience in the real estate and title insurance industries to ClosingCorp.
Most recently, Carney was chief operations officer and chief strategy officer at reQuire, a Web-based lien release tracking and reporting service.
FLORIDA
BOCA RATON
ResMac Inc. that Sam Alecci has joined the company as its new vice president and regional sales manager.
Alecci brings over 30 years of experience in management of the real estate and mortgage industries to the company. He previously served as an account executive and sales manager at Flagstar for nearly two decades.
OHIO
VALLEY VIEW
Safeguard Properties appointed Pat Hoffman to assistant vice president of operations.
Hoffman was appointed to this newly created position to assist the COO in identifying and executing on a number of strategic operational initiatives.
Prior to joining Safeguard, he served as director of operations at Capstone Logistics in Norcross, Ga., for 11 years where he managed multiple accounts.
RHODE ISLAND
NEWPORT
Embrace Home Loans said that John McGinty, former national sales executive of ServiceLink, a Black Knight company, has joined the national lender as its Southeast regional lending executive.
Most recently, McGinty was responsible for developing wealth management and high net worth sales strategies for ServiceLink.
He has also held senior sales management roles at JPMorgan Chase, Fifth Third Bank and CitiMortgage.
TEXAS
PLANO
Optimal Blue, a cloud-based provider of enterprise lending services to the mortgage industry, appointed Nadia Aziz as its new chief commercial officer.
In her new role, Aziz will be responsible for Optimal Blue's key functions of product management, marketing and sales, and will focus on creating a stronger integration across these areas.
She joined Optimal Blue in April 2014 as an executive vice president.
Aziz brings to the firm over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 12 years with Capital One.
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