Photo Gallery

MBA National Technology in Mortgage Banking Conference & Expo

March 25-28, 2007, Tampa, Fla.

Cooley Consulting president Scott Cooley, left, joined a group of William Mills representatives at the show in maintaining that market conditions are making good public relations very important. The William Mills personnel are, from left, Chuck Meyers, group director; Lindsay Quirk, account associate; Heather Cunningham, account agent; and Catherine Laws, senior vice president.

Peggy Baker, director of strategic solutions, professional services at First American Corp., talked about the value of embracing bundled services.

Charlyne McWilliams, account supervisor at William Mills, Tim Anschutz, center, vice president of marketing at Guardian Mortgage Documents, and Craig Kaley, vice president of product development at Guardian, argued that outsourcing closing and post-closing will make it easier for brokers to become bankers.

Maria Verven, vice president of marketing at Dexma, discussed the company's plan of delivering technology to community banks to give them an edge in a shrinking mortgage market.

Kelly Boggs, regional sales director, and Michael Blair, executive vice president, pointed out how LSSI intends to compete in a very competitive document preparation environment.

Mortgage Technology Magazine managing editor Anthony Garritano, left, and Joe Puthur, Ellie Mae's director of hosted professional services, talked about how hosted technology has affected mortgage lending.

David Aach, chief operating officer at Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM company, detailed the strategy behind IBM's new mortgage division, which was officially formed at the show.

This quartet from Axcess Americas reported on how they're planning to take origination technology at Axcess from the Australian market to the United States. They are, from left, Frank Peluso, chief information officer, Richard Rodriguez, president, Frank Perez, director of operations, and Marco Lamboglia, operations manager.

Donja Majors, public relations coordinator at Mortgage Cadence, reported that the loan origination system now has complete reverse-mortgage functionality.

Reggie Swiney, senior director at MortgageHub, was on hand in the Exhibit Hall to discuss the company's acquisition of the London Bridge assets from Fair Isaac, which was announced at the show.