WaMu Names Wholesale Chief

Mortgage industry veteran Arlene Hyde has been named director of the Home Loans Wholesale Channel of Washington Mutual Inc., Seattle, as part of a realignment of the company's home loan distribution channels.The realignment is aimed at integrating sales and operations into a single-channel structure for retail, wholesale, correspondent, and consumer direct, WaMu said. Before joining WaMu, Ms. Hyde was managing director of real estate servicing at St. Louis-based CitiMortgage, where she held key positions such as executive vice president of correspondent lending, wholesale lending, and national operations and senior vice president of retail operations. Before joining CitiMortgage, Ms. Hyde was head of national operations for Knutson Mortgage Corp. WaMu can be found online at http://www.wamunewsroom.com.