75 Women at the Vanguard of America's Mortgage Industry
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MPAMAG.COM ISSUE 10.03 2017 75 women at the vanguard of America’s mortgage industry PATTY ARVIELO President, New American Funding Loan Originator for 34 years Built for originators by an originator. www.TeamNewAmerican.com Licensed by Arizona Dept. of Financial Institutions License #BK-0912376, Dept. of Business Oversight under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act License, Georgia Residential Mortgage Licensee, License # 22564. Illinois Residential Mortgage Licensee, Kansas Licensed Mortgage Company, License # MC.0025168, Massachusetts Mortgage Lender & Mortgage Broker License # MC6606, Mississippi Dept. of Banking and Consumer Finance, N.J. Dept. of Banking and Insurance, Ohio Mortgage Broker Act Mortgage Banker Exemption License #MBMB.850190.000, Rhode Island Licensed Lender, Texas licensed location 6504 International Pkwy, Ste 1300, Plano, TX 75093. Washington Consumer Loan Company License #CL-6606. NMLS #6606. www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org. 14511 Myford Rd, Ste 100, Tustin CA 92780. (877) 478-5476. 07/2017 SPECIAL REPORT ELITE WOMEN 2017 The glass ceiling hasn’t kept these women at bay. Meet 75 leaders and influencers who are shaping a more diverse mortgage industry IN AN industry where the majority of leadership roles are still dominated by men, the women on the following pages are slowly changing the status quo. An impressive 25% of the women on MPA’s 2017 Elite Women list hold top C-suite or leadership positions, including many founders and owners of their own companies and brokerages. After receiving numerous nominations from readers around the nation, MPA culled this list to 75 women who have overcome obstacles and broken barriers to become some of the industry’s top professionals. On the following pages, you will be introduced to record-breakers, innovators, mentors and trendsetters who inspire the success of their peers every day and are using their collective influence to change the face of America’s mortgage industry. www.mpamag.com 1 SPECIAL REPORT ELITE WOMEN 2017 INDEX BY NAME NAME COMPANY PAGE NAME COMPANY PAGE Arvielo, Patty New American Funding 9 Hendricks, Kelly Delmar Financial Company 6 Ashdown, Mindy Academy Mortgage Corporation 31 Jablonski, Tina Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group Inc. 16 Badciong, Jean Inlanta Mortgage Inc. 14 Kapoor, Indu Guaranteed Rate 3 Baker, Gina Alderus Mortgage 24 Kepler-Fleenor, Joni InterWest Mortgage 32 Bane, Mary loanDepot 8 Killgo, Rebekah Balkcom Amerisave Mortgage Corporation 30 Batangan, Sarah Stearns Lending LLC 10 Laffey, Cindy Inlanta Mortgage Inc. 13 Beckwith, Christine Annie Mac Home Mortgage 3 Lamphere, Kara Mid America Mortgage 16 Beier, Debbie GSF Mortgage Corporation 33 Latiff, Sheila Digital Risk LLC 28 Bell, Ginger Go2Training 4 Lecha, Beeta Spiegel Accountancy Corporation 22 Bobart, Michelle Guaranteed Rate 19 Lindblom, Suzy Stearns Lending LLC 7 Boger, Lauren On Q Financial 4 Mason, Desteni KTL Performance Mortgage – 8 Borst, Julia Guaranteed Rate 18 The Mason Knows Mortgages Team Bradley, Melissa Satori Mortgage 33 Meitner, Susan Centennial Lending Group LLC 4 Brandao, Laura American Financial Resources 25 Melnick, Sue Bay Equity Home Loans 6 Bresch, Mellissa Stearns Lending LLC 31 Morales, Elizabeth Applied Business Software 10 Brewer, Lori LBA Ware 28 Morton, Robin Cachet Real Estate Finance 8 Burns, Jill Mountain West Financial Inc. 18 O'Brien, Beth CoreVest American Finance 26 Butler, Erika Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. 24 O’Mallan, Lola Stearns Lending LLC 18 Cassell, Mary Digital Risk LLC 23 Patrick-Davidson, Cathi Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group Inc. 14 Clermont, Yvette Inlanta Mortgage Inc. 16 Pearce, Jamie Korus Alliance Home Loans 30 Clymer, Valerie Watson Mortgage Corporation 33 Richards, Tammy Caliber Home Loans Inc. 7 Cole, Katrina Inlanta Mortgage Inc. 15 Rodriguez, Lorena Motive Lending 14 Crow, Julie Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. 25 Rustom, Ashley Element Funding 6 Davidson, Linda Service First Mortgage 3 Ryan, Judy Credit Plus Inc. 7 DiPasquale, Vicki Simplifile 29 Scully, MaryKay Genworth Mortgage Insurance 23 Ellis, DeAnn Element Funding 24 Sieffert, Kristen Finance of America Reverse 31 Fountain, Jennifer Altavera Mortgage Services 26 Talbert, Cristen Gold Star Mortgage Financial Group Inc. 14 Fulmer, Ann FormFree 32 Tank, Caren loanDepot 20 Garner, Lizzie Guaranteed Rate 10 Todd, Tonya Mountain West Financial Inc. 15 Gates, Cathleen Schreiner Ellie Mae 12 Tyson, Charlotte Genworth Mortgage Insurance 20 Gegaj, Tereze United Wholesale Mortgage 23 Visniskie, Jessica GMH Mortgage Services LLC 32 Gillen, Neusa Family First Funding LLC 25 White, Paula McLean Mortgage Corporation 26 Gilmore, Robin America's Local Lender LLC 33 Whitehead, Teresa Citywide Home Loans 22 Green, Ruth Primary Residential Mortgage Inc. 12 Wirth, Kerry Waterstone Mortgage Corporation 30 Hagerty, Terrie Citadel Servicing 29 Wolcott, Kim Academy Mortgage Corporation 5 Hale-Lee, Lynette Wintrust Mortgage 29 Wood, Sally Evolve Bank & Trust 20 Hanbury, Pam McLean Mortgage Corporation 28 Yarbrough, Kelli RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation 15 KTL Performance Mortgage – Heath, Kristina Your Expert Mortgage 12 Zwick, Jennifer TTCU The Credit Union 22 2 www.mpamag.com INDU KAPOOR Vice president, branch manager and regional renovation manager Guaranteed Rate Since starting her career in the mortgage lending industry in 1997, Indu Kapoor has strived to provide excellent customer service and exceed expectations. Her goal is to not only educate herself on ever-changing guidelines, but also educate her clients. A top FHA 203(k) and HomeStyle renovation mortgage loan specialist, Kapoor was voted D Magazine’s Best Loan Officer CHRISTINE BECKWITH in 2014 and was named a Five-Star Mortgage Professional in 2017. Kapoor holds an National vice president of Realtor and sales MBA in corporate finance from the University of Dallas, and she can converse in several management languages and dialects. Annie Mac Home Mortgage As vice president of Realtor and sales management, Christine Beckwith LINDA DAVIDSON oversees one of the main value Vice president, branch manager and senior residential propositions of Annie Mac Home loan originator Mortgage. She was instrumental in Service First Mortgage setting up and expanding the company’s Realtor platform, Annie Mac Worx. She Linda Davidson recently celebrated her 20th also successfully launched a national year in the mortgage industry. For the past few road show, which entailed traveling years, she has retained the titles of top originator to every Annie Mac branch to train and top-producing branch within Service First managers and teams on the company’s Mortgage, while serving on the faculty board of two technology and sales strategy. national training companies and on the company’s “As a woman in a male-dominated own coaching/mentoring team. Davidson initiated field, I have had to prove my abilities Service First’s Greenhouse Program, which trains through results – winning sales contests high-potential loan officer assistants to become and being a respected example of successful originators; the effectiveness of her strategies and programs have been mentoring and leadership through evident in the yearly increases in her loan officers’ production. my day-to-day interactions with sales “Growing up in government housing, I truly had to overcome the limited belief that associates and amongst my peers I was not good enough,” Davidson says. “I think that made me work harder to prove and superiors,” Beckwith says. “The that I could be successful, as well as be a role model for others in our industry. I was challenges women have faced in our very blessed early in my career to find a great mentor, Todd Duncan, who taught me to industry over the decades are related think of myself in the origination business – and to run it like a business – instead of to setting themselves apart and not someone who just ‘did loans.’” asking for entitlement or exceptions. Davidson champions not only homeownership but also the value of home itself, and In everything people do in life, no highlights the contributions women have made to these two causes. “I actually believe matter who you are, you will be faced that in general, women make better loan officers because of their natural empathy with obstacles and adversity. To truly gifts,” she says. “That being said, I think one of the major challenges we feel is the rise above those challenges, you must guilt of juggling a successful origination career and creating a strong and loving family see yourself as a worthy and capable nucleus. My top accomplishments are being a mom and a grandmother, and secondly, competitor and then focus your eyesight [having] the ability to serve with excellence hundreds of families in fulfilling the dream on the finish line, make no excuses and of homeownership.” deliver superior results.” www.mpamag.com 3 SPECIAL REPORT ELITE WOMEN 2017 GINGER BELL LAUREN BOGER President, education specialist Producing sales manager Go2Training On Q Financial Ginger Bell has been instrumental in Lauren Boger has grown her business year- helping to develop and implement over-year since she joined On Q Financial and comprehensive training programs to allow has been part of the company’s President’s companies to tailor programs according Club since 2015; last year, she moved up four to their clients’ needs. Although Bell spots to rank at number five for units. As a started her company, Go2Training, right millennial, Boger has helped the company before the mortgage meltdown, she was in its efforts to reach her generation by able to keep the business afloat thanks developing a video mortgage application to her “greatest strength, [which] came prototype to guide borrowers through the from [my] community or ‘tribe’ of friends application process. Boger also contributed in the industry.” to the company’s initiative to reach the Bell has built her position and Hispanic market by hiring a Spanish speaker reputation as an industry leader and to train the team and help the business cater expert on corporate training, and is part to this underserved, growing demographic. of the National Association of Mortgage Boger candidly describes the challenges she faced while on maternity leave.