Career moves

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 9.

Walter Investment Management has promoted its vice chairman to CEO, after Mark O'Brien said he will retire from that position.

NewCastle Home Loans Owner Ryan Kelley has branded himself as "The Home Loan Expert" and is willing to sit in a bathtub full of credit cards to prove it.

Employment at nonbank mortgage banking and brokerage firms was steady in August, ending a six-month run of job gains.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Oct. 2.

NMI Holdings Inc. president Jay Sherwood will step aside and become the company's vice chairman for the remainder of his employment agreement, the company said in an 8-K filing.

USAA will shift about 120 positions in its mortgage operations from an office near Dallas, to offices in Tampa, Fla., and Phoenix.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 25.

Ocwen Financial Corp. announced that it will lay off approximately 300 residential servicing employees at its facility in Waterloo, Iowa.

Money360, a marketplace lender that focuses on commercial real estate, has hired mortgage industry veteran Gary Bechtel as its president.

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Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 18.

Blackstone Group's Invitation Homes, the largest owner of single-family rental houses in the U.S., hired Ernest Freedman from Apartment Investment & Management Co. to become its chief financial officer.

Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa, Calif., has hired the president of Sequoia Pacific Mortgage.

Brian Webster, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's mortgage originations program manager who has worked on a number of technology-related policy and research initiatives, is leaving the agency to join Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

When he's not co-hosting his talk radio show or helping clients, Residential Home Funding's Marc Demetriou is studying loan program guidelines, a task he credits for helping him become one of the industry's top producing loan officers.

Mortgage professional hiring and new job appointments for the week ending Sept. 11.

Charles Hallac, the Wall Street veteran who got his start working with mortgage-backed securities on his way to becoming co-president of BlackRock Inc., has died after an almost four-year battle with cancer. He was 50 years old.

Fidelity National Financial has promoted two executives to the position of co-chief operating officer.

Consulting firm The Collingwood Group has hired former Freddie Mac executive Paul Mullings.