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Guaranteed Rate Affinity elevates Kevin Ginsburg to national builder divisional manager

Kevin Ginsburg Guaranteed Rate Affinity
Guaranteed Rate Affinity
Guaranteed Rate Affinity, a Chicago-based joint venture between Guaranteed Rate and Anywhere Integrated Services, promoted Kevin Ginsburg to national builder divisional manager. In this role, he will lead the company's builder strategy nationwide, with a focus on expanding builder partnerships across Guaranteed Rate Affinity and its real estate partner, Coldwell Banker. 

Ginsburg previously served as regional president and has been a member of the Guaranteed Rate Affinity leadership team since the company's inception. Prior to joining Guaranteed Rate Affinity, he worked as a division builder manager at Bank of America.

Dynex Capital appoints Michael Sartori chief financial officer

Michael Sartori Dynex
Dynex Capital
Dynex Capital, a mortgage real estate investment trust based in Virginia, appointed Michael Sartori as chief financial officer. Sartori, who had served as head of capital markets and financial planning and analysis since 2019, joined the company in 2013 as assistant controller. He succeeds Robert Colligan, who is leaving the job by mutual agreement and will remain in an advisory role through May 1. Prior to joining Dynex Capital, Sartori spent several years at Genworth in accounting management roles focused on derivatives accounting.

Union Home Mortgage taps Renee Hildebrand as national vice president of M&A

Renee Hildebrand Union Home Mortgage
Renee Hildebrand joins Union Home Mortgage as National VP of Mergers and Acquisitions, with industry experience spanning 25 years.
Union Home Mortgage
Union Home Mortgage appointed Renee Hildebrand as national vice president of mergers and acquisitions. In the role, Hildebrand will seek opportunities for organizations to join Union Home Mortgage while preserving the lender's culture and service. Her recent background spans senior leadership roles focused on growth through acquisitions, completing 10 deals in the past decade at companies including Guild Mortgage, Cardinal Financial, Bay Equity Home Loans, Stearns Lending, Caliber Home Loans and Nationstar. Earlier in her career, Hildebrand served as a loan officer and retail branch manager.

Beeline Holdings announces Barry Levenson as executive strategic advisor

Beeline Holdings, a Providence, Rhode Island-based digital mortgage platform, appointed Barry Levenson as executive strategic advisor. Levenson has more than three decades of mortgage banking experience and will advise the company's leadership team on capital strategy, loan economics, product positioning and funding efficiency. He is the founding principal and CEO of LK Secured Lending and previously served as managing director at PennyMac. Earlier in his career, Levenson was a founding executive of Countrywide Bank.

Rate adds seven Movement Mortgage loan officers in December

Rate, a Chicago-based fintech company, announced that seven loan officers from Movement Mortgage joined the company in December 2025. The loan officers, Gabriel Carter (Santa Barbara, California); Katie Blake (Tarpon Springs, Florida); Brandon Kelter (Tarpon Springs); Alexandra Hunt (Tampa, Florida); James Golotko (Lakeland, Florida); Jason Buchanan (Tarpon Springs); and Scott Miller (Tarpon Springs), pointed to Rate's technology platform, workflows and growth infrastructure as key reasons for the switch.

Cornerstone First Mortgage names Kevin Parsells as director of strategic growth

Cornerstone First Mortgage, based in San Diego, appointed Kevin Parsells as director of strategic growth. He will lead national initiatives focused on production expansion, leadership development and long-term strategic growth. Parsells brings nearly three decades of experience in mortgage banking.

Jet Mortgage names Greg Austin executive vice president, wholesale

Jet Mortgage, a California-based national wholesale mortgage lender and a division of Home Mortgage Alliance Corporation, appointed Greg Austin as executive vice president, wholesale. He will lead wholesale originations and be responsible for broker relationships, sales leadership and expansion initiatives nationwide. Austin has more than two decades of experience in wholesale and correspondent lending.

Prior to joining Jet, he worked at Carrington Mortgage Services, where he was executive vice president of mortgage lending. Earlier in his career, Austin held a similar position at Impac and was head of sales and marketing for Hudson & Marshall.

Altisource names Rick Seehausen president of Lenders One

Rick Seehausen Altisource
Rick Seehausen
Altisource Portfolio Solutions, a provider of real estate and mortgage solutions, appointed Rick Seehausen as president of Lenders One, a national alliance of independent mortgage bankers. He will lead the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of Altisource's Origination segment, with a focus on strengthening Lenders One's value proposition, growing membership and launching new solutions. 

Seehausen brings more than 30 years of experience in mortgage banking, capital markets and corporate leadership. He joins from Cherry Creek Mortgage, where he most recently served as president, chief operating officer and vice chairman, and prior to that was cofounder, president, CEO and vice chairman of LenderLive.

Snapdocs welcomes Jamie Mottern as VP of lender growth

Jamie Mottern Snapdocs
Snapdocs
Snapdocs, an AI-powered digital closing provider, announced Jamie Mottern has joined the company as vice president of lender growth. In the role, she will work closely with lenders to accelerate digital adoption and improve connectivity. Mottern has more than 10 years of mortgage industry leadership experience. She previously held senior roles at CitiMortgage and Docutech, where she led operations, strategic partnerships and client teams.

Optimal Blue taps Fuad Nasir as VP of hedging and trading

Fuad Nasir Optimal Blue
Optimal Blue
Optimal Blue appointed Fuad Nasir as vice president of product management for hedging and trading. He will focus on strengthening risk visibility, enhancing model oversight and equipping capital markets teams to protect margins and execute with greater confidence in volatile markets. Nasir joins after nearly 20 years at Mortgage Industry Advisory Corporation, where he held senior leadership roles within the firm's secondary solutions group.

Westcor promotes Wesley Parkinson to regional agency manager

Wesley Parkinson Westcor
Westcor Land Title Insurance Company
Westcor Land Title Insurance Company, a Maitland, Florida-based independent title insurance underwriter, promoted Wesley Parkinson to central states & Tennessee regional agency manager. In this role, he will lead his team in providing service and support to title agents. Prior to joining Westcor in 2020 as a state agency manager, he served the same role for First American starting in 2017, and previously worked for several large Michigan agencies in operations and sales after selling a title agency he co-owned in 2013.

Stewart taps Ashley Scipioni to lead central and east Florida operations

Stewart Title appointed Ashley Scipioni as operations manager for central and east Florida, with an immediate focus on building and developing teams in the Orange County markets. Scipioni brings more than 25 years of experience in the title industry. She joins from Fidelity National Title of Florida, where she spent the last 25 years, most recently as assistant district manager and vice president.

Titan Flood welcomes Chris Black as chief operating officer

Chris Black Titan Flood
Titan Flood
Titan Flood, a private flood insurance company, appointed Chris Black as chief operating officer. In the role, Black will lead distribution and operations, with a focus on scaling partnerships and operational excellence. Black has nearly two decades of experience across insurance distribution, underwriting technology and operational leadership. Most recently, he served as chief operating officer and partner at Ask Fetch, where he helped scale the dual-sided underwriting and sales platform. Prior to that, Black founded and grew multiple insurance and technology-enabled businesses, working with independent agencies and carriers nationwide.

Qleario taps Terri Hanson as chief strategy officer

Qleario, a Jacksonville, Florida-based provider of title and settlement solutions, appointed Terri Hanson as chief strategy officer to lead the launch of its new advisory division, Qlear Tech Insight. The division will assist national and local agencies in optimizing digital connectivity and streamlining multi-platform workflows. Hanson brings almost 40 years of experience in title and real estate technology to the role, where she will oversee the development and scaling of Qlear Tech Insight while managing long-term strategic initiatives across Qleario's technology portfolio.

True appoints four new executives

Ed Job True
True
True, an enterprise AI platform for mortgage automation, recently appointed John Bianchi as president, Steve Daignault as chief financial officer, Courtney Thompson as chief revenue officer and Ed Job to lead mortgage operations and customer support. 

Bianchi previously served as chief revenue officer at Snapdocs, where he scaled the company's enterprise business, and now oversees go-to-market strategy and operations at True. Daignault's experience spans companies at a similar stage to TRUE as well as larger enterprise software firms. Thompson will lead revenue strategy and growth initiatives across the company's enterprise client base, after previously serving as senior vice president of enterprise sales at Evolve Mortgage Services. Job brings more than two decades of financial services leadership experience, including 16 years at Citibank, where he led consumer mortgage and correspondent lending operations.

Colin McNamara
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Colin McNamara is a reporter for National Mortgage News. He recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism and minor in general business... Read full bio
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