Career moves

Freddie Mac executive Anthony Renzi has accepted a senior mortgage job with Citigroup, after weighing a position with Wilbur Ross’ fast-growing mortgage empire.

Michael D. Fraizer, chairman and CEO of Genworth Financial, resigned Tuesday afternoon, two weeks after the firm’s stock was hammered because of accelerating losses in its Australian mortgage insurance business.

ISGN Corp., Melbourne, Fla., hired Matthew Mesmer as associate general counsel with a focus on regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, ethics, risk management and operational compliance.

Experience 1 Inc., a holding company for two title insurance providers, named former LPS executive Eric Swenson chairman.

Industry veteran Tony Renzi, who joined Freddie Mac last spring as part of a major organization at the GSE, has resigned from the company effective May 11, according to a new SEC filing.

Neil Morse, a career journalist and communications specialist who found his niche in the mortgage space, died April 27 of liver cancer.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency hired Denise Dunckel as a senior associate director for the office of congressional affairs and communications.

By now, thousands of readers have viewed our coverage (both in print and online) of eWarehouseOne, the mysterious warehouse lender that appears to have collected at least $250,000 in application and good faith checks, and doesn’t have a whole lot of lines of credit to show for it. After two months of investigating the company and talking to roughly 20 sources, we’ve come to the conclusion that the man running the show is Tom Reynolds, once listed as EVP in charge of warehouse lending. The problem is this: none of the account executives hired by the company (some of whom have left) have ever met Reynolds, though they’ve spoken to him on the phone.

Former federal housing commissioner Brian Montgomery is one of three new nominees to the Radian Group’s board of directors.

LendingQB, Costa Mesa, Calif., named Brian Smith to its business development team.

The Mortgage Bankers Association’s director of industry standards is leaving the trade group, less than six months after the MBA resumed running the day-to-day operations of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization.

Ellie Mae said that Cathleen Schreiner Gates has joined the company as senior vice president of sales and client services.

ISGN Corp., Melbourne, Fla., hired Jennifer Fulks and as associate general counsel with a focus on regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, ethics, risk management and operational compliance.

Brent Wessel joined commercial real estate lender Red Mortgage Capital as a managing director, commercial/multifamily loan originator based in the firm's Newport Beach, Calif., office.

The past is coming back to haunt former Fannie Mae chief executive James A. Johnson.

Don Curtis, vice president of business development for Carrrington Mortgage Services, Santa Ana, Calif., has left the company.

PHH Corp. hired Robert Crowl as executive vice president, effective April 26, setting him up to eventually become the company’s chief financial officer.

Lenders One Mortgage Cooperative, St. Louis, a national alliance of community mortgage bankers, correspondent lenders and suppliers of mortgage products and services, named Jeffrey McGuiness as its new CEO.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau poked its thumb in the eye of residential loan officers originating mortgages for depositories.

Reznick Group, Bethesda, Md., said that Deborah Levinson has joined the firm as a Principal.