Career moves

The management changes come amid speculation that competition between Mr. Cooper and another player that's been more focused on digital operations is heating up.

Papanii Okai will fill a newly created position of executive vice president of product engineering at Rocket Mortgage.

Chief capital markets officer William Chang is stepping down "to explore new opportunities within the mortgage banking sector."

Also, Opendoor adds former Fannie Mae president to board, NFM promotes social media influencer and the Mortgage Bankers Association names its new director of member relations.

The successor to Michael Hutchins, who filled the role on an interim basis, guided a well-known bank's real estate business through the financial crisis.

In a little over a month, the company's newly appointed chief strategy officer has built out a six-person strong recruiting team.

The new exec is a former CEO of Sagent and Cloudvirga, and worked at Black Knight for over a decade.

Doug Duncan joined Fannie Mae in 2008 after holding the chief economist position at the Mortgage Bankers Association for almost 16 years.

After a bruising takeover battle, CoreLogic went private. Pat Dodd, who moved into the CEO role soon after that, details how much has changed during his two-year tenure.

In addition to promoting Tom Hutchens to president, non-qualified TPO Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions also named a trio of new executive vice presidents.