CALIFORNIA
IRVINE
RealtyTrac hired Charlie Engel as the new director of business development, real estate.
Engel will lead the company’s efforts driving additional real estate professional partnerships.
He brings more than 10 years of sales management and business development experience to RealtyTrac and has held senior sales positions in a diverse group of companies, including Oodle.com, Network Communications and UBM Canon.
COLORADO
DENVER
Allonhill said that Craig Wildrick joined the firm as chief operating officer.
Wildrick will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations as well as the strategic implementation and management of Allonhill’s due diligence and credit risk management services.
He brings more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry.
Prior assignments include chief operating officer for Aurora Bank FSB and executive positions at Wells Fargo, First Horizon Home Loans and Fannie Mae.
WESTMINSTER
BrokerPriceOpinion.com named Chris McLain as director of business development.
McLain will manage sales, reseller relationships, strategic partnerships and business development.
He will be based in Gainesville, Fla., and brings to the company more than 15 years of experience in the mortgage and real estate industries, specializing in collateral risk management.
Previously McLain worked in national sales as an automated valuation model specialist with MDA Lending Solutions/DataQuick and served as director of strategic accounts for Veros, a predictive technology and collateral risk management software company.
GEORGIA
ATLANTA
CB Richard Ellis Group Inc. said that Jeffrey Ackemann has rejoined CBRE Capital Markets in its Atlanta office.
He will be a regional leader of the debt and equity finance team.
Ackemann returns to CBRE having previously served as director/office manager for the former CBRE subsidiary, L.J. Melody & Co. Inc.
He began his career with Coldwell Banker as a real estate analyst in the early 1980s.
ATLANTA
SunTrust Banks Inc. named Jerome Lienhard president and chief executive officer of its mortgage division.
He will be in charge of everything from funding and servicing to secondary markets and technology.
Lienhard succeeds Sterling Edmunds Jr., who will move over and take a position as executive vice president of national sales and production.
Edmunds will be in charge of all of SunTrust's funding channels, including retail, wholesale and correspondent. He also will oversee cross-selling options.
Lienhard joined SunTrust as treasurer in 2006, and during his career worked for several firms including Freddie Mac.
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE
Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. named Robson Kuster, currently head of research, to the additional position of chief operating officer and also named three members of the investment team as managing directors.
The managing directors are Jason Marshall, head of portfolio management, David Lyle, head of residential mortgage credit and Kevin Collins, head of commercial mortgage credit.
Kuster, Marshall, Lyle and Collins are employees of Invesco Advisers Inc., the manager of Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.
MARYLAND
FREDERICK
Default Resource hired James Zeldin as executive vice president and chief sales officer.
Zeldin brings more than 20 years of experience in default management, origination services, REO management and business process consulting to Default Resource, where he will be responsible for developing and executing the firm’s strategic sales initiatives.
Prior to joining Default Resource, he was the senior vice president of business development for Altisource Portfolio Solutions and its predecessor company, Ocwen Financial Corp.
FULTON
NewDay Financial said that Gavin Brady has joined the company as president of its VA Mortgage Division.
Brady will oversee all sales and operations activities related to VA mortgage originations, including the company’s retail branch network and day-to-day operations.
Brady has worked in the mortgage banking business for more than 30 years and most recently served as senior vice president at Financial Freedom, a subsidiary of OneWest Bank FSB, where he was responsible for the retail reverse mortgage business, a centralized lending platform, direct marketing and pricing/product development.
The company also named Doug Douglas chief financial officer.
In this role, hiss responsibilities include strategic planning, treasury and cash management, accounting and financial analysis.
Douglas has worked in the mortgage banking business for more than 35 years.
Most recently, he served as executive vice president of business processes for American Home Mortgage.
Douglas was also president of Columbia Real Estate Investments, a publicly traded mortgage REIT, and began his career with James W. Rouse & Co., the mortgage banking subsidiary of the Rouse Co.
MICHIGAN
FARMINGTON HILLS
NDeX, a provider of technology and processing services for default servicing law firms nationwide, appointed Margaret Feskorn as its new senior vice president of Michigan foreclosure operations.
Prior to joining NDeX, Feskorn served as vice president and chief financial officer of Southfield, Mich.-based Capital Mortgage Funding.
She also previously served as the senior vice president of operational risks and controls for Chicago-based LaSalle Bank Corp., where she managed and acted as a liaison for the ABN Amro Mortgage Group Inc. in this capacity.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
NewOak Capital appointed David Eyzenberg as managing director and head of the commercial real estate division, where he will be responsible for directing the firm’s principal activities in that sector.
Before joining New Oak Capital in January, Eyzenberg was president of Prodigious Capital Group.
Prior to forming Prodigious Capital, he Eyzenberg was the head of the New York office of Madison Capital Group, responsible for the origination and execution of real estate investment banking transactions.
Preceding his position at Madison, he was a director at Wall Street Realty Capital, a New York-based spin-off of Cantor Fitzgerald.
