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Rama Sreenivasan is co-founder and CEO of Blitzz, a live, app-free remote video support and inspection platform. Sreenivasan has led the company through its initial inception, launch, and subsequent growth to several million video support minutes per month. Major customers include BMW, Sealy, Fedex, and Rogers telecommunications. 

Before founding Blitzz in 2017, Rama spent several years working as a scientist and educator. His biggest joy comes from helping others solve their problems and he is passionate about finding effective ways to disseminate knowledge. Sreenivasan has a PhD and MS in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He also did his post doctoral research at MIT in Cambridge, Boston.

Steve is a partner in PwC's Risk Modeling Services practice. He leads PwC's US Climate Risk Modeling team and has more than 24 years of experience in actuarial risk and financial modeling. Steve's team is comprised of actuaries, financial analysts, PhD climate scientists, data scientists, geospatial engineers, and other climate risk specialists. His approach blends climate science with geospatial analysis and financial modeling to help clients identify, measure, and manage climate risk exposure. Projects include climate change risk assessments and quantification for both physical and transition risk, emissions optimization, and other financial and risk modeling projects. Steve has a degree in Mathematics from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst.

Osho Jha is a co-founder of Arbol currently serving as its Chief Data Scientist. He is also a founding partner of dClimate, the first decentralized climate information ecosystem. As Chief Data Scientist at Arbol, he oversees the development of data-driven parametric products and climate risk solutions. Osho comes to Arbol with over a decade of experience as a product-focused data scientist. His experience ranges from cutting edge NLP research for DARPA resulting in a speech-to-speech translation system deployed by the U.S. military to using exhaust data for trading global equities.

The loans increased their share to more than 20% of home lending volume in the fourth quarter, compared to just 7% a year earlier.

A February survey of 2,000 people who were looking to sell their home in the next 12 months, found that 86% were planning to buy another home, but of those respondents, 56% are waiting for rates to come down.

Kiran Kumar Boosam is the head of Global Insurance Strategy & Portfolio at Capgemini. In his current role, he is responsible for enabling the top-line growth of Capgemini's Insurance business. He has more than 25 years of experience in P&C and Life Insurance. Kiran is a graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Andhra University.

U.S. homebuilder sentiment rose for a fourth month in April as limited resale inventory helped drive demand for new houses, suggesting the residential real estate market is slowly recovering.

Despite dearth of new loans, retail investors' exit from loan funds provides CLOs with new-issue supply.

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he favored more monetary policy tightening to reduce persistently high inflation, although he said he was prepared to adjust his stance if needed if credit tightens more than expected.

Mission-driven entities will have priority on 50% of loan pools secured by Home Equity Conversion Mortgages.