Career moves

Chief Operating and Growth Officer Pat Dodd becomes interim president and CEO following Frank Martell’s move to non-executive chairman of the company’s board.

Bob Walters' decades of experience with the brand offers stability as it fights to remain at the forefront amongst its competitors in mortgage and related businesses.

Tim Birkmeier, chief revenue officer at Rocket Mortgage, adds the president's role as part of the changes.

Also: The MBA gets two new vice presidents, Sagent adds a sales veteran and the Amherst Group hires an MBS portfolio manager.

HUD official Alanna McCargo takes over the top job at the government corporation, which has had a series of acting leaders since 2017.

Also, PennyMac appoints new managing director as its COO steps down, and Cenlar, Deephaven grow their business development teams.

Chryssa Halley, who has been with the company since 2006, was named CFO and Jim Holmberg was named controller.

The company appointed regulation and compliance expert Sonny Abbasi to serve as general counsel following a fund-raise of $52.5 million earlier in the quarter.

Randal Quarles, who oversaw an easing of post-financial crisis rules as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair of supervision, announced he will resign at the end of this year. His departure will leave President Biden with another open seat to fill on the central bank’s board.

Also, Consolidated Analytics names former Cenlar leader COO, Revolution Mortgage moves into new states and Regions finds an affordable housing expert.