Opteum Financial Co-Founder Retiring

Martin J. Levine, co-founder, executive vice president, and chief operating officer of Opteum Financial Services, will retire March 31, according to Opteum Financial's parent company, Opteum Inc., a real estate investment trust based in Vero Beach, Fla.Opteum said Mr. Levine will continue in his EVP role pending his retirement. Mr. Levine co-founded Opteum Financial in 1999 with Peter R. Norden, and he was previously the founder and president of First Builders Financial Corp., which merged with Olde Town Mortgage in 1989 to form First Town Mortgage Corp. Opteum also announced that Robert Filiberto and G. Hunter Haas IV have been appointed co-COOs of Opteum Financial. Mr. Filiberto is senior vice president and chief servicing and technology officer at Opteum Financial, and Mr. Hunter is senior vice president and head of mortgage research at Opteum Inc. Opteum can be found on the Web at http://www.opteum.com.