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Richard Caldwell has been named executive vice president and chief lending officer at California Savings Bank's San Francisco office as part of the bank's expansion of commercial real estate lending in Northern California.The San Francisco-based bank said it now has three commercial lending offices serving Northern California: San Francisco, Walnut Creek, and Sacramento. Patricia Theophilus, EVP and chief credit officer, said the bank now has a commercial loan pipeline of over $300 million. Mr. Caldwell, who was previously a principal at Buchanan Street Partners, a regional mortgage bank and fund manager, said California Savings plans to "move quickly to meet rising demand in the region for land loans, ground-up construction, value-added bridge financing, and permanent loans across a broad range of commercial property types, including multifamily, retail, hospitality, R&D, office, industrial, and single-family residential tracts." Mr. Caldwell has also held positions at GMAC Commercial Mortgage and Merrill Lynch Capital.

Former U.S. Sen. Thomas A. Daschle of South Dakota, who was the Senate Democratic leader until his re-election defeat in 2004, has joined the board of directors of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., Los Angeles.Mr. Daschle is currently special policy adviser in the Washington office of the Alston & Bird law firm, where he advises clients on a variety of public policy issues, including financial services. Brett White, CBRE's president and chief executive officer, said the company would "benefit tremendously from Tom's insight and experience with economic issues, international affairs, and other issues" and that the former senator would help the board expand the company's real estate services worldwide. Mr. Daschle served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election to the Senate in 1986. The company can be found on the Web at http://www.cbre.com.

Richard T. Martin has joined Rogers Townsend & Thomas PC, a law firm with offices in Columbia and Myrtle Beach, S.C., to direct quality assurance efforts for the firm's Default Services section.Before joining the firm, Mr. Martin was senior vice president at Aurora Loan Services Inc., where he set strategy in areas such as loss mitigation, real estate owned, claims, and foreclosures. He also managed foreclosure and bankruptcy cases for HomEq Servicing at First Union NB and served as vice president at Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group Inc. "Mr. Martin's experience in the mortgage banking industry will greatly enhance our quality assurance processes," said Sam Waters, Rogers Townsend's chairman of the board and head of the Default Services section.

Karen A. Bayz has been named executive vice president and chief accounting officer at Metrocities Mortgage LLC, Sherman Oaks, Calif.Ms. Bayz was most recently senior vice president and controller with WMC Mortgage, a subsidiary of GE Consumer Finance. Her previous experience includes a stint as a consultant with Deloitte Touche Resources Connection, where she served as interim controller with a large mortgage company, and seven years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Metrocities said. Metrocities can be found on the Web at http://www.metrocitiesmtg.com.

Carl Levinson has been named head of the North American Consumer Lending Group (including mortgage and home equity lending) of Citigroup's Global Consumer Group.The appointment was announced as part of a new organizational structure for the Global Consumer Group. Mr. Levinson will be one of four primary business heads in North America. The others are Vik Atal, who will head Citi Cards; Ellen Alemany, who will continue running the Commercial Business Group; and Ray Quinlan, who will become head of Retail Distribution North America. Citigroup can be found online at http://www.citigroup.com.

Mike Skalka has been named chairman of the international group of Stewart Information Services Corp., Houston, and elected chairman of three wholly owned Stewart subsidiaries.In addition, Stewart Morris Sr. has been appointed chairman emeritus of Stewart Information International Inc., one of the three subsidiaries. The other two are Stewart Title Guaranty de Mexico SA de CV, Stewart's underwriter in Mexico, and Stewart Title Ltd., Stewart's underwriter in the United Kingdom. Mr. Skalka has been general counsel and chief legal officer of Stewart Title Guaranty Co., Stewart Title Co., and Stewart Information Services Corp., three other Stewart subsidiaries, since 1993. He served previously as president of Stewart Title Insurance Co., where he continues as chairman, and has 28 years of experience in the title insurance and real estate industries, Stewart said. The company can be found online at http://www.stewart.com.

Bill Adamowski, chairman of MortgageHub, will resume the role of president and chief executive officer of the company in conjunction with a new growth strategy for the Des Moines, Iowa-based Web services platform provider.Mr. Adamowski said the company will hire more than 30 technology professionals and open at least four news offices over the next 60 days to help execute the strategy, which will include acquisitions and the introduction of new products. "For the past two years, my team and I have been working on putting together what I feel is the future of mortgage technology," Mr. Adamowski said. "We took a team of the best technologists and completely removed ourselves from the day-to-day work of running a company and invested in the development of this revolutionary new platform." He said the new technologies will be unveiled next month at the Mortgage Bankers Association's annual convention. The company can be found online at http://www.mortgagehub.com.

Mark K. Tonnesen has been named president and chief executive officer of Triad Guaranty Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., and its subsidiary, Triad Guaranty Insurance Corp., succeeding company founder Darryl W. Thompson, who is retiring.Triad said Mr. Tonnesen was most recently vice chairman and chief financial officer of RBC Insurance, a unit of Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada. He has more than 20 years of management experience in the financial services industry. Mr. Thompson has been president of Triad since founding the company in 1987. Triad can be found on the Web at http://www.triadguaranty.com.

Stephen M. Abelman, executive vice president of Criimi Mae Inc., has left the real estate investment trust to "pursue other interests," but has entered into a consulting agreement with the company, according to the Rockville, Md.-based REIT.Mr. Abelman's consulting contract runs through June 30, 2006, and he will assist the company in its review of strategic options and other key management tasks, the REIT said. Mark R. Jarrell, Criimi Mae's president and chief operating officer, will assume Mr. Abelman's responsibilities. Criimi Mae can be found on the Web at http://www.criimimaeinc.com.

Jason Bohrer has been named executive vice president and group executive of the Domestic Residential Group of AIG United Guaranty, a mortgage insurance company based in Greensboro, N.C.Among the business segments reporting to Mr. Bohrer will be DRG new business production, marketing, structured products, product development, credit policy, risk management, and business operations. Mr. Bohrer was most recently an EVP with SunTrust Mortgage Corp., and he also held management positions with national and regional mortgage lenders such as GMAC Mortgage Corp., Columbia National, and Dominion Bankshares Mortgage Corp.