Career moves

Paul Atkins, a noted critic of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will join the Financial Stability Oversight Council, where he will play a role in shaping housing policy.

In a wide-ranging interview, Tim Bowler, president of ICE Mortgage, discusses his views of the road ahead, the most crucial aspects of servicing distressed homeowners and why he took a mid-career role as an intern.

Pennymac alums find new home, Dark Matter names CEO, Optimal Blue promotes from within, plus more mortgage industry moves.

Sam Valverde, acting president of Ginnie Mae, has resigned after about six months in the job.

The new president of Movement Mortgage previously held senior positions at Stearns Lending, Caliber Home Loans, Bank of America and Countrywide.

Freedom Mortgage CEO Stan Middleman weighs in on the Fed, servicing policy, and broker-to-banker moves as he comments on challenging career experiences in his new biography.

The two companies will retain ties as Daniel Wallace moves to an operational leadership position at a time when non-agency mortgage opportunities are opening up.

Over 100 originators have returned to Loandepot's retail channel. The mortgage shop is also planning to beef up its VA lending segment with a new hire.

The Mortgage Bankers Association finds a chief financial officer, Two Harbors welcomes servicing executives and Assurance Financial taps industry veteran for new C-suite position.

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.

Benutech's former CEO will head Voxtur, which is selling a majority stake in Blue Water Finance Technologies and repositioning itself in real estate lending.