Obituaries

She led two mortgage companies in a male dominated industry, and most recently was CEO of risk management firm Dytrix.

No cause of death was provided for the longtime industry figure, who before joining CoreLogic in 2015 was at Freddie Mac for 28 years, including 13 as its chief economist.

The visionary co-founded electronic signature company SignOnline in 1999, a year before legislation legalized e-signatures at the federal level.

The industry legend turned around a struggling Minneapolis company and even escaped a kidnapping to build the firm that is now the nation’s fifth-largest bank.

The former No. 2 at Countrywide had been battling brain cancer prior to passing away from the coronavirus.

Johnson led Fannie in the 1990s and played an advisory role in President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

He co-founded California Rural Legal Assistance, Public Advocates and the Greenlining Institute.

Terry Wakefield, a technology consultant who helped launch Fannie Mae's mortgage-backed securities business and form Prudential Home Mortgage, has died. He was 70.

Sandler and his wife, Marion, built a small California thrift into a powerhouse before selling it to Wachovia prior to the housing collapse, but were heavily criticized for engaging in some of the same practices that caused the financial crisis.

Robert Klein, the son of Holocaust survivors who went on to build an empire in the property preservation industry, died on May 3. He was 65.

Jeffrey Taylor, a former Wells Fargo reverse mortgage executive and founder of Wendover Funding, has died following a battle with cancer.

Laurie Maggiano, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's program manager for servicing and secondary markets, died on Sunday.

Colonial Savings founder James S. DuBose died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 93.

MFA Financial Inc. co-CEO William Gorin died Aug. 10 after a long illness. He was 59.

CoreLogic President and CEO Anand Nallathambi died unexpectedly March 2 after a short illness. He was 55.

Memorial donations in the name of David Graifman, a Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods analyst who was a casualty of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will be used to establish a scholarship fund at the New York University Stern School of Business, where he received his MBA degree.