ECC Cap COO Resigns for Production Job

ECC Capital Corp., Irvine, Calif., says its executive vice president and chief operating officer Steven Szpytek has resigned to take a production job at a subsidiary.Mr. Szpytek will be based in Downers Grove, Ill., and will serve as director of production in the Midwest for Encore Credit Corp. The nonconforming wholesale lender is also losing its spokesman, Rob Asghar, who is departing to take a position at the University of Southern California. Recently, ECC/Encore, a real estate investment trust, trimmed 440 full-timers, or 27% of its work force.