Wholesaler Names Mortgage Vet to Board

Mortgage industry veteran Richard A. Mirro has been elected as an independent member of the board of directors of ResMAE Financial Corp., a wholesale specialty residential mortgage lender and servicer based in Brea, Calif.Mr. Mirro was previously chairman and chief executive officer of North American Mortgage Co. and executive vice president of Dime Savings Bank, NAMC's parent company. Before that, he was chairman and CEO of Fleet Mortgage following a decade at Chase Manhattan Mortgage, ResMAE said. The wholesaler also announced the election to the board of Robert E. Dean, who was most recently a senior managing director of Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC. M. Jack Mayesh, chairman and co-CEO of ResMAE, said the two new directors will be "tremendous assets as ResMAE rapidly expands throughout the country during the next year."