First Community Mortgage, a subsidiary of First Community Bank in Murfreesboro, Tenn., has started a consumer direct lending operation working out of a new office in Cleveland.
Its focus is on retaining current and former clients. The new team will be led by Tim Krichbaum, who was hired as branch manager.
Krichbaum comes to First Community from HomeBridge Financial Services, where he had served as a branch manager since November 2014,
Based out of Ohio, he has worked in the mortgage industry for 12 years with previous stints as Quicken Loans, Crosscountry Mortgage, Oxford Lending Group and Empire Mortgage.