Career moves

Walker & Dunlop, LLC, Bethesda, Md., this week hired Rob Rotach as vice president and deputy chief underwriter for its Federal Housing Administration finance department.

Industry veteran John Robbins, who exited the business six years ago, next week will announce that he's reentering mortgage banking with a new retail/wholesaler lender.

Mike Perry, who led IndyMac Bancorp until its collapse in 2008, is trying to rehabilitate his image, waging a public campaign rarely seen from an executive of a once high flying mortgage lender.

Now that Walter Investment Corp., has officially purchased subservicer Green Tree Servicing, St. Paul, Minn., and its parent company, GTCH Holdings, LLC, it has changed certain job duties of executives that joined the firm.

Wanted: 520 mortgage professionals – and the man doing the hiring is former DiTech chief Paul Reddam.

Carrington Property Services hired Michael Harris as its president. He joins Carrington from Stewart Asset Recovery where he served as president, responsible for its day-to-day operations, including business development, product and service enhancements, and its vendor network.

Three officials – including chief operating officer Craig Wildrick – recently left Allonhill, an independent third-party mortgage review firm based in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren, who is credited with founding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will announce Wednesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown, R-Mass., according to combined press reports.

Elizabeth Warren has headed back to Massachusetts, but she remains engaged in the partisan fight in Washington over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Former Mortgage Bankers Association chief executive John Courson has joined Treliant Risk Advisors as a senior advisor, a press release from the company said.

Kinecta Federal Credit Union signed Chris Knox as Northeast regional manager for its wholesale/correspondent mortgage lending operation.

Congress has imposed numerous checks and balances on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's powers, according to Richard Cordray, who has been nominated by President Obama to be the agency's first director.

The Collingwood Group Wednesday announced that it has hired industry veteran Tom Cronin as a managing director of the firm.

In a long-awaited showdown over the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats sparred over whether the Senate should proceed with the nomination of the bureau's first director.

The nominee to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said he prefers to use "supervisory tools" as opposed to litigation to enforce consumer protection laws.

Stephen L. Ledbetter, senior vice president of mortgage backed securities for the Government National Mortgage Association, is leaving the agency for a senior position at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to officials familiar with the matter.

3Point Asset Management, Irvine, Calif., has hired Ron Millar as AVP in charge of sales and training.

Flagstar Bancorp, Troy, Mich., this week named Henry Darakhovskiy senior vice president and manager of balance sheet management portfolios.

The Appraisal Institute named a Texas appraiser as its new elected vice president for 2012 as part of its annual changing of the guard.

Mortgage quality control technology and services provider Aklero Risk Analytics has named an executive from ISGN as chief financial officer.