Career moves

Also, Click n' Close, LendArch, First Community name chief officers, Evergreen promotes long-time leader to president and LenderClose grows its marketing team.

Emerging mortgage bankers can achieve a competitive advantage against big-box lenders by prioritizing a digital-forward mortgage business, writes the CEO of Click N' Close.

Katie Jones is the third woman added to the GSE’s chief officer ranks in the past year.

Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf hired Mike Weinbach in 2020 as part of a broader organizational shake-up. The former JPMorgan Chase executive is leaving in mid-September as the consumer lending group transitions to a new leader.

Also, Xactus, iEmergent add to their C-suites, Planet Home grows its team and Longbridge Financial finds a chief operating officer.

Hafize Gaye Erkan, whose surprise departure from First Republic Bank disrupted the lender’s succession plans earlier this year, will become chief executive officer of Greystone as the closely held commercial-property lender expands into wealth management and private banking.

In the face of headwinds, mortgage leaders will stay strong by building on past experience, writes the president of Incenter LLC.

Cuts on one side of the business are creating a ready-made, knowledgeable pool of workers for servicers as demands on the latter's operations are increasing.

Also, Inlanta names its CEO, American Financial welcomes back a past president and Deephaven keeps growing.

Also, Academy Mortgage promotes COO to president, Movement focuses on diverse lending and Guaranteed Rate opens new branches on the coasts.