ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY
ServisFirst Bank hired Brooks Seale as a mortgage loan officer in its mortgage division for the Montgomery region.
Seale has been a loan officer specializing in conventional, FHA, VA, Alabama Housing Authority and USDA Rural Development mortgage loans in Montgomery and the surrounding areas for the past nine years.
He was previously with Synovus Mortgage.
GEORGIA
ATLANTA
The board of directors of CredAbility has selected Phillip N. Baldwin to serve as the new president of CredAbility, a national nonprofit credit counseling organization.
Baldwin succeeds Suzanne E. Boas, who is retiring after nearly 20 years in the role.
For the past 10 years, Baldwin served as president and chief executive officer of Southern Bancorp, a $1 billion bank holding company that is America's largest rural development bank.
His career spans more than 30 years in banking and finance.
ILLINOIS
CHICAGO
General Growth Properties Inc. appointed Shobi Khan to chief operating officer and Scott Morey to chief information and technology officer.
Khan most recently served as U.S. chief investment officer at Bentall Kennedy.
Prior to joining Bentall Kennedy, he was senior vice president of investments at Equity Office Properties Trust.
Morey was previously managing director for Alvarez & Marsal, leading their European real estate advisory practice.
Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, he served as chief operating officer of CityScape, a private Nigerian-based real estate development company.
GGP also named Andrew Joa vice president of investor relations.
Joa brings nearly two decades of industry experience in both the private and public sectors of real estate.
He previously served as vice president of investor relations for Chicago-based real estate private equity firm Callahan Capital Partners.
MARYLAND
ROCKVILLE
Federal Realty Investment Trust said that Melissa Solis has been promoted to vice president/chief accounting officer, effective July 1.
Solis joined Federal Realty in 2007 and has over 10 years of financial accounting and audit experience.
Prior to joining the Trust, she was a senior manager at Ernst & Young in the assurance and advisory business services group specializing in real estate.
MISSOURI
KANSAS CITY
Love Funding hired Steven Hunt and Matthew Andrea to launch a new hospital finance division.
Hunt, most recently a senior account executive at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Healthcare Programs, joined the company as first vice president, hospital finance, based in Kansas City.
Andrea, who formerly served as director of portfolio management in the FHA Section 242 hospital mortgage insurance program, will assume the role of senior underwriter, hospital finance.
Hunt and Andrea have 24 years of combined experience working specifically on Section 242 transactions at HUD.
NEW JERSEY
JERSEY CITY
Opera Solutions hired Jonathan Di Giambattista as vice president of product management for its global markets analytics group.
In this role, he will spearhead the strategy and development of capital markets products.
Prior to joining Opera, Di Giambattista served as managing director and global head of risk and performance Analytics for Fitch Solutions, a division of Fitch Group.
Before his tenure at Fitch Solutions, he was senior vice president of Algorithmics Inc.
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
Jefferies appointed Clifford Lanier as a managing director and head of fixed-income cross product sales.
Lanier brings to Jefferies 20 years of fixed-income experience and joins the firm after three years with Deutsche Bank, where he was a managing director for fixed-income sales and head of generalist sales.
Previously, he spent 16 years at Merrill Lynch in fixed-income sales where he was most recently a director in the fixed-income strategic solutions group.
NEW YORK
Madison International Realty appointed Todd D. Silverman, a former Tishman Speyer executive, as managing director of equity capital markets.
Silverman joins Madison after a six-year tenure with Tishman Speyer, where he most recently held the position of managing director and head of global business development and global leasing, and relationship manager for equity capital markets.
He previously served as director of New York Leasing and as an associate for New York Acquisitions and Asset Management.
OREGON
PORTLAND
Williston Financial Group and its wholly owned subsidiary, WFG National Title Insurance Co., appointed Morgan Harris as executive vice president, default services.
As the head of the company’s default services division, Harris will oversee the growth of the division nationwide. The default services group will be headquartered in Simi Valley, Calif.
He brings to WFG National Title over 25 years of experience in the real estate and settlement services industry.
PENNSYLVANIA
BENSALEM
ISGN Solutions Inc. hired Scott Slifer as its new president of sales and marketing.
Slifer brings over 22 years of financial services industry experience, including 16 years in housing finance and technology.
He was previously senior vice president of business development and marketing with Altisource Portfolio Solutions.
Prior to his work with Altisource, Slifer was a senior executive in sales management for organizations that include Citi and ABN Amro.
He also worked for Freddie Mac, where he oversaw and directed the organization’s customer management and business development efforts for their largest single-family residence division.
TEXAS
IRVING
Caliber Funding LLC appointed Brian Simon as chief executive officer and Michael Massella as senior vice president, wholesale production.
Simon joins Caliber Funding with nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including senior leadership roles at Freedom Mortgage, Prime Mortgage Financial and Startbank.
Massella joins Caliber Funding after serving as senior vice president of First Savings Mortgage, and also as president, production of Aegis Mortgage Corp.
