LoanCity Names COO, Sales Chief

LoanCity, a national wholesale lender based in San Jose, Calif., has announced that John C. Giagiari Jr. and Jeff Minch have joined the company as chief operating officer and national sales manager, respectively.For the past 10 years, Mr. Giagiari was director of subprime lending at Meritage Mortgage, a division of Netbank. Before joining Meritage, he was responsible for wholesale lending in Northern California for First Franklin Financial. Mr. Minch, who will have the title of senior vice president as well as national sales manager, has been national sales manager at Meritage since 2004. He was previously Eastern regional sales manager for Meritage, held strategy and operational posts at First Franklin, and founded OneHarbor, a financial planning service for customers of financial institutions. LoanCity can be found online at http://www.loancity.com.