CALIFORNIA
SANTA ANA
Stearns Lending said that Dennis Waxman has joined the company as regional vice president and sales leader for Stearns Wholesale, with responsibilities that encompass all wholesale lending sales management and related activities in the Southeast region.
He previously served as TPO divisional manager with FBC Mortgage, formerly Sterne Agee Mortgage.
Earlier in his career, Waxman held wholesale channel sales management leadership positions at SunTrust Wholesale, Plaza Home Mortgage, Washington Mutual, Countrywide and Chase Wholesale.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WASHINGTON
The Mortgage Bankers Association, parent corporation of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization, has appointed Pete Carroll, executive vice president at Quicken Loans, and Andy Crisenbery, senior vice president, managing director of e-lending solutions at Black Knight Financial Services, to the MISMO Board of Directors.
Kyung Cho-Miller, Linglong He and Eddy Wetsel will be stepping down from the MISMO Board of Directors.
New board members serving in an ex-officio capacity are new MISMO Committee chairs Charlie Epperson, chief technology officer of SigniaDocs, chair of the MISMO Education Committee; Randy Poirier, vice president of data solutions at Black Knight Financial Services, chair of the Residential Standards Governance Committee; and Matt Seu, partner, Actualize Consulting, chair of the MISMO Strategic Planning Committee.
NEVADA
LAS VEGAS
Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. has opened a new Las Vegas branch that will be managed by Bo Crawford and Diana Dikes.
Crawford is responsible for pipeline management, talent acquisition and development, branch loan production and overall operations of the new branch.
Dikes has joined the new branch as the production manager and is responsible for recruiting and building the branch.
Crawford and Dikes both previously served with Security National Mortgage, respectively, as a loan originator and branch manager.
NEW JERSEY
MOUNT LAUREL
PHH Corp. said that Stephen Staid has joined the company as senior vice president, servicing.
Staid succeeds Marty Foster, who is retiring from the company after 20 years of service.
Foster is expected to remain with PHH until the second quarter of 2017 to assist with the transition.
Staid has 25 years of experience leading loan servicing and customer service operations at a number of financial services firms, including SEMS, Bank of America, Nationstar Mortgage and Saxon Mortgage Services.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
Greystone said that Jerry Muir has joined the firm as a managing director working with the agency lending team.
A 25-year veteran of Fannie Mae, Muir will focus on building out Greystone's manufactured housing lending platform.
He most recently served as director of multifamily credit/underwriting at Fannie Mae, responsible for a 12-state Southeast region, with a dual role in having developed and managed the manufactured housing community lending platform at the GSE.
Scott Thurman has also joined Greystone as senior managing director and chief underwriter within the FHA lending team.
A 25-year FHA industry veteran, Thurman most recently served as senior managing director and chief underwriter at ACRE Capital.
He began his career at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as multifamily housing representative and information specialist.
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