Career moves

Panorama Mortgage Group and Hunt Mortgage also appoint COOs, SitusAMC adds to its title sales team and non-QM lender Sprout finds head of TPO business with internal promotion.

Sushil Sharma, former Pray.com and LendingTree executive, will take on the newly created chief growth officer position.

Also, InstaMortgage, SitusAMC, Mortgage Network add experienced sales leaders, Greystone expands its CMBS platform and Popular Bank finds new head of residential lending.

The nation's second largest title insurer reported lower fourth quarter earnings, but the shift to purchase transactions pushed revenue higher.

Zanin, a former GE Capital executive, became chief risk officer at the government-sponsored enterprise only one year ago.

He is leaving the Texas-based nonbank lender less than one year after it was acquired by New Residential Investment.

Also, Guaranteed Rate and Amerifirst Home Mortgage focus on Western expansion, Notarize adds chief officers and Timios names new president.

Derek Flowers, a 24-year company veteran, will replace the retiring Amanda Norton. Flowers' familiarity with the megabank's operations will help as it continues working through regulatory consent orders, CEO Charlie Scharf said.

Chief Operating and Growth Officer Pat Dodd becomes interim president and CEO following Frank Martell’s move to non-executive chairman of the company’s board.

Bob Walters' decades of experience with the brand offers stability as it fights to remain at the forefront amongst its competitors in mortgage and related businesses.

Tim Birkmeier, chief revenue officer at Rocket Mortgage, adds the president's role as part of the changes.

Also: The MBA gets two new vice presidents, Sagent adds a sales veteran and the Amherst Group hires an MBS portfolio manager.

HUD official Alanna McCargo takes over the top job at the government corporation, which has had a series of acting leaders since 2017.

Also, PennyMac appoints new managing director as its COO steps down, and Cenlar, Deephaven grow their business development teams.

Chryssa Halley, who has been with the company since 2006, was named CFO and Jim Holmberg was named controller.

The company appointed regulation and compliance expert Sonny Abbasi to serve as general counsel following a fund-raise of $52.5 million earlier in the quarter.

Randal Quarles, who oversaw an easing of post-financial crisis rules as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair of supervision, announced he will resign at the end of this year. His departure will leave President Biden with another open seat to fill on the central bank’s board.

Also, Consolidated Analytics names former Cenlar leader COO, Revolution Mortgage moves into new states and Regions finds an affordable housing expert.

Also, Guaranteed Rate launches lending outreach to Spanish speakers, AmTrust Title creates head of technology role and UMortgage brings on a training specialist.

Also, Candor Technology names past Fannie Mae exec chief strategy officer, former Impac chief of staff joins The Money Source and Plaza Home Mortgage finds a CIO