Guaranteed Rate Affinity announces VP of mortgage lending
Guaranteed Rate Affinity announced that Josh Rakiey has joined the company as vice president of mortgage lending. He will focus on serving homebuyers, building relationships with real estate agents and expanding his business across New England. Since entering the mortgage industry in 2003, Rakiey has held a variety of roles, including leading and managing an origination team.
The company also named Matthew Falconer as a California branch manager. Over the past decade, Falconer has established himself as a top-producing loan officer. He joins from CrossCountry Mortgage, where he spent nearly six years.
Movement Mortgage taps Tina Kosur as VP of mortgage technology
Movement Mortgage welcomed Tina Kosur as vice president of mortgage technology, where she will oversee the technology roadmap for the company's core mortgage and lending systems. Kosur most recently spent six years at Blue Sage Solutions, where she established and led the company's Project Management Office and directed implementation strategy for enterprise and mid-market clients.
NEXA Lending brings on the Bookspan Baker team
NEXA Lending welcomed Todd Bookspan and Matt Baker to launch Keepsake Loans, a new umbrella brand designed to preserve their team identity while leveraging NEXA's infrastructure. The longtime mortgage leaders have worked together for more than 15 years, building a team that has served over 5,000 families and originated more than $1 billion in mortgage volume, with the team currently on pace for approximately $100 million in production in 2026. Bookspan brings 25 years of mortgage industry experience, while Baker has more than 30 years in the industry.
New American Funding promotes Northwest regional vice president
New American Funding named Stacy Chevalier Northwest regional vice president to drive regional expansion across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Chevalier brings more than 26 years of mortgage banking, sales and leadership experience to the role, with expertise in retail mortgage banking, builder business and market expansion. She joined New American Funding as an area manager in January 2026.
Zillow elevates Rikki Tremblay to principal accounting officer
Zillow promoted Rikki Tremblay to vice president, principal accounting officer, reporting to Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Jeremy Hofmann. Tremblay succeeds Jennifer Rock, who is retiring after 15 years with the company. Rock joined Zillow in 2011 and has served as chief accounting officer since 2018, helping lead key components of the company's initial public offering.
MISMO adds three to board of directors
MISMO, the real estate finance industry's standards organization, announced the additions of three mortgage industry leaders to its board of directors: Anthony Hutchinson, executive vice president and head of public affairs at VantageScore; Gemma Currier, senior vice president of corporate strategic initiatives at Guild Mortgage; and Eric Lapin, vice president and head of market strategy and intelligence at FICO. The appointments were approved during the recent MISMO Fall Summit in Reston, Virginia.
Hutchinson brings nearly three decades of housing, financial services and public policy experience, including previous leadership roles at Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and the National Association of Realtors, while Lapin has extensive expertise in credit analytics, market intelligence and the evolving role of data and technology in financial services. Currier brings mortgage loan manufacturing and production expertise, strategic leadership experience and deep relationships throughout the mortgage industry.
Lenders One welcomes two new members to leadership team
Lenders One, a national mortgage cooperative, announced the addition of Stephen Boney as senior vice president of originations operations and Joseph Camerieri as senior vice president of sales and strategy. The pair will lead the expansion of L1 Fulfillment Solutions powered by Altisource Fulfillment Operations. Prior to joining Lenders One, Boney held executive fulfillment leadership roles at Newrez, Specialized Loan Servicing, PHH, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Camerieri served in leadership positions at Maxwell, Mortgage Cadence, LenderLive, FirstKey and PHH.
Evergreen Home Loans expands Andrew Leff's role
Evergreen Home Loans announced an expansion of Andrew Leff's role as senior vice president, head of national business development, adding leadership responsibility for the company's construction lending department. Since joining Evergreen in 2025, Leff has developed and launched BuildersEdge, a comprehensive suite of financing solutions for builders. Leff brings more than 20 years of mortgage banking experience, including senior leadership roles with Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and U.S. Bank.
OriginPoint appoints Austin Reed as producing regional manager
OriginPoint Mortgage announced that Austin Reed has joined the company as a producing regional manager. Reed brings 13 years of mortgage experience and approximately $150 million in annual production. His team serves borrowers throughout New England and the Northeast, as well as Georgia, Florida, California, Illinois and Michigan.
LoanCare names Amy Jones as chief information officer
Mortgage subservicer LoanCare announced Amy Jones has joined the company as chief information officer. She will lead the company's technology and digital strategy, including its investment in AI-enabled solutions. Jones has more than two decades of experience leading technology and digital transformation initiatives across the mortgage, financial services and healthcare industries, including more than 15 years at Wells Fargo, where she spent five years as a technology executive supporting home lending servicing. She joins from Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, where she served as vice president of customer technology and experience.
Planet taps regional sales manager for multistate expansion
Planet, a specialty finance company focused on mortgage servicing and production, welcomed Derek Vandlen as regional sales manager in Tennessee. Vandlen leads a team of more than two dozen producers across six locations in Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, with plans to expand into the Carolinas and Mississippi. He brings 28 years of mortgage experience and has spent approximately 26 years in regional management roles. Vandlen began his career in the mortgage industry after serving four years in the military.
Coldwell Banker elevates chief marketing officer
Coldwell Banker Real Estate promoted Lindsay Listanski to chief marketing officer, a role that consolidates brand, brokerage and commercial marketing efforts across the brokerage's network. Listanski has more than 15 years of experience with the Coldwell Banker brand, having held leadership roles in social media, public relations, communications and field marketing. She will continue leading the Coldwell Banker Realty marketing organization while taking responsibility for national brand marketing and Coldwell Banker Commercial marketing.
Fischer Homes promotes Jason Finch to president
Fischer Homes, a privately held home builder with operations in 11 markets across the Midwest and Southeast, named Jason Finch president. In his new role, Finch will oversee the execution of the company's homebuilding strategy and focus on aligning operations across divisions. Finch most recently served as president of the South region, where he strengthened performance and operational consistency across multiple markets. He joined Fischer Homes in 2013 and has held senior roles in sales, division operations and regional leadership.
CMLS names Cameron Kinzer director of advocacy
The Council of Multiple Listing Services appointed Cameron Kinzer as director of advocacy to lead the organization's government relations and public policy strategy. He will work closely with CEO Jessica Edgerton to monitor legislative and regulatory developments, build relationships with policymakers and support the MLS community's advocacy efforts spanning legislation, regulation, technology, artificial intelligence and data policy. Kinzer joins CMLS after nearly nine years at Boise Regional Realtors, where he most recently served as chief advocacy and public affairs officer.
CREFC appoints Paul Vanderslice president and CEO
The CRE Finance Council, a trade association for the commercial real estate finance industry, named Paul Vanderslice as president and CEO, effective Sept. 30. Vanderslice joins CREFC from BMO Capital Markets, where he serves as head of commercial mortgage-backed securities, overseeing the origination, securitization and distribution of new issue transactions. He has been a CREFC member for nearly three decades and served as chair of CREFC's executive committee and board of governors from 2012 to 2013.
Prior to joining BMO in 2020 to establish and lead the firm's CMBS platform, Vanderslice served as CEO of Cantor Commercial Real Estate and held senior leadership positions at Citigroup.
Westcor Land Title taps Florida agency representative
Westcor Land Title Insurance appointed Sarah Hasch as agency representative to support title agents in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. Hasch brings 28 years of real estate industry experience to the role. She spent 12 years as a Realtor in Northern California, specializing in foreclosed properties, and was a member of Fannie Mae's top-selling team in the Sacramento, California, market for four consecutive years. She previously served as marketing representative for an attorney-owned title company in the Tampa Bay, Florida, area.
Offerpad adds Benjamin Graboske to board of directors
Offerpad Solutions announced the appointment of Benjamin Graboske to its board of directors. Graboske brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling data and analytics platforms across real estate, mortgage, capital markets and healthcare. He most recently served as executive vice president of technology and engineering as well as chief data officer at Definitive Healthcare, where he led global data strategy, product innovation and engineering initiatives.
Prior to joining Definitive Healthcare, Graboske served as head of mortgage data and analytics at the Intercontinental Exchange and spent nearly a decade as president of data and analytics at Black Knight.
Informative Research welcomes back Tim Cox as EVP
Informative Research, a technology provider of data-driven credit and verification solutions, announced that Tim Cox rejoined the company as executive vice president of business process automation. Cox previously worked in senior operations and client experience roles, including as senior vice president of operations and head of client experience. He brings more than two decades of mortgage technology and operational strategy experience to the role. Cox joins from Xactus, where he most recently served as senior vice president of strategic solutions and client success.
SingleSource names Holly Wilson as SVP of operations
SingleSource Property Solutions, a provider of residential property services, announced Holly Wilson has joined the company as senior vice president of operations. Wilson will head the operations leadership team and oversee budget accountability across all business lines, focusing on service level agreement compliance and process improvements.
Most recently, she held several leadership roles at Freedom Mortgage, including director of information technology product management, implementing technology across retail, wholesale and correspondent channels, and led title and appraisal operations for the company's retail call center. Prior to Freedom Mortgage, Wilson managed vendor relations and served as a closing leader for Title Resource Group.
BSI Financial appoints Rob Willis head of nonagency servicing
BSI Financial Services, a mortgage fintech platform, appointed Rob Willis as senior vice president and head of nonagency servicing. Willis has overseen more than $50 billion in assets across institutional platforms during his nearly three-decade career. He most recently served as head of asset management and business purpose loan servicing for GenStone Asset Management, a division of Fay Servicing.
CoStar Group taps Felix Kusch as president of Homes.com
CoStar Group, a provider of online real estate marketplaces and property market analytics, named Felix Kusch president of Homes.com. Kusch spent the last several years running two of Europe's leading real estate portals, serving as CEO of Immoweb in Belgium and Immowelt in Germany. Prior to those roles, he led mergers and acquisitions work at Axel Springer Digital involving European real estate marketplaces.
Auction.com welcomes John Ken as SVP of marketing
Auction.com, an online marketplace for distressed residential property sales, appointed John Ken as senior vice president of marketing. Ken will grow the platform's buyer base and expand its marketing technology, with a focus on bringing more qualified buyers to the marketplace. He joins from Experian, where he was head of customer lifecycle and marketing technology for a base of more than 80 million consumers.
Archwell Capital restructures c-suite
Archwell Capital, a private investment management company with businesses in financial services, real estate, technology and professional sports, appointed multiple new members to its c-suite. Mike Middleman was named CEO and will focus on scaling the firm's existing investments and operating companies, as well as deploying new capital across mortgage, insurance, commercial real estate and professional sports. He joins from Freedom Mortgage, where he spent a decade in senior leadership roles and remains vice chairman. Middleman is also co-founder of Moder, Archwell Capital's business intelligence company, where he remains executive chairman.
Archwell also welcomes James Blanco as chief operating officer and president of Archwell Reinsurance, Raj Patel as chief financial officer, Matt Harbus as chief strategy officer and Melissa Rubenstein general counsel.
Rithm Capital names Ann DeVries as head of investor relations
Rithm Capital announced that Ann DeVries has joined the firm as head of investor relations. DeVries brings more than 25 years of experience across investor relations and strategic finance. Most recently, she served as head of strategic finance and investor relations at Banc of California, where she led the bank's investor relations efforts and partnered with senior management on strategic initiatives. Prior to that, she served as head of investor relations at Bakkt, where she built the investor relations function from the ground up, and spent 16 years at JPMorgan Chase in senior roles across investment banking, corporate finance and investor relations.
Advocus taps Michael Maddiex as chief operating officer
Advocus National Title Insurance announced that Michael Maddiex has joined the Chicago-based company as chief operating officer. Maddiex will provide executive leadership for Advocus' Illinois operations and lead the company's expansion of direct operations in key states. He brings nearly 40 years of experience in the real estate, title insurance and settlement services industries, with extensive experience building and expanding title operations and leading multi-state settlement organizations.
MBA names commercial real estate finance policy VP
The Mortgage Bankers Association announced that Lauryn Enrico has joined the trade group as vice president of commercial real estate finance policy. She will manage the development and execution of MBA members' strategic policy priorities and serve as the lead on regulatory issues pertaining to commercial and multifamily real estate finance.
Enrico joins MBA from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where she most recently served as senior financial analyst. Prior to joining FHFA, she was a director at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service and previously served as a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
