Authors List

Authors

  • Peter Clasquin

    Peter Clasquin is a managing director at Hunt Mortgage Group, a leading Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac apartment lender. Clasquin has financed a variety of micro apartments through his Seattle correspondent GP Realty Finance Inc.

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  • Robert Clennan

    Rob Clennan is president of Mortgage Solutions Financial. He joined Mortgage Solutions Financial in November 1996, starting in inside sales. He later advanced to loan officer, branch manager and vice president of sales. During this period, he helped lead the successful transition of the company’s brand from Freedom Financial Services to Mortgage Solutions Financial. As chief production officer, Clennan helped identify and grow a number of new and emerging markets, leading the company to all-time production records. 

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  • Bradley Clerkin is a distinguished authority in artificial intelligence with a wealth of experience in the financial services sector. As the head of AI at ThoughtFocus, he spearheads the company’s AI strategy and innovation, positioning them as a global leader in AI solutions. His passion lies in collaborating with progressive financial services organizations that aim to transform their operations through the integration of hybrid workforces, combining human talent with advanced technology.

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  • Deb Cleveland

    Deb Cleveland is an independent real estate investor and seven-figure entrepreneur who mentors women so they can transform their lives by learning to flip houses and build personal wealth through her Small Town Dynasty courses. She is known for turning small towns into beautiful, bustling communities that positively impact everyone from investors and renters to shop owners and town councils. She has personally flipped more than 400 units and maintains more than 80 rental properties to date. 

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  • Ray Cline is national director of GemCap Equity Management. For 25 years, GemCap has helped its clients save millions in unnecessary mortgage interest and have paid representatives thousands in commissions. Its biweekly payment program can help your clients save thousands on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. With a user-friendly software program, the company helps real estate professionals easily and quickly enroll their clients into the system.

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  • Rebecca Clyde

    Rebecca Clyde is co-founder and CEO of Botco.ai, an intelligent chat startup that’s disrupting and modernizing marketing automation for enterprise-sized businesses. She’s an accomplished marketing professional and public speaker with unique expertise in marketing-automation leadership and business growth. Prior to Botco.ai, Clyde founded Ideas Collide, an award-winning marketing-automation agency.

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  • Alex Cohen is the CEO of Liberty SBF, a commercial real estate financing company that provides directly funded loans to owners and investors of commercial properties. The company lends nationwide on a variety of asset types and specializes in U.S. Small Business Administration 504 loans for business owners, as well as bridge loans and commercial mortgage-backed securities for property investors.

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  • Zach Cohen is the managing partner of Ridge Street Capital and has originated nearly $30M of U.S. real estate debt on single-family, multifamily, and commercial investment properties. Cohen loves working with local real estate investors who have ambitious goals of building large investment portfolios. He is a former aerospace engineer and an active entrepreneur with core values of integrity and determination.

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  • Jim Colella

    Jim Colella is vice president, national builder program manager at Guaranteed Rate. He has nearly 25 years of combined experience in mortgage and home- building, including leadership roles in sales, marketing, operations and land development. Colella is the company’s lead resource for new construction initiatives and recruiting centered around growing builder volume. He is directly involved with developing strategic business plans for loan officers and market managers to capture builder and condominium developer accounts.

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  • Barry Coleman is vice president of program management and education at the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC). He and his team are responsible for the development and implementation of financial counseling and education programs that NFCC members deliver to consumers. A retired Air Force command chief master sergeant, Coleman holds an MBA from Ohio University and a bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Ashford University. Reach Coleman at (800) 388-2227.

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  • Matt Coles

    Matt Coles is regional vice president of sales for Plaza Home Mortgage, a proven national leader dedicated to wholesale and correspondent lending. In this role, Coles has served wholesale mortgage brokers in the Southern California and Arizona markets for the past nine years.

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  • Ellen Comeaux

    Ellen Comeaux is a senior vice president and commercial division leader at TIAA Bank. As a member of the bank’s leadership team, she directs commercial loan origination activities and drives strategy for the company’s commercial real estate and equipment-finance business lines. She has more than 30 years of experience in the equipment-finance business, and previously worked with MetLife Capital and GE Capital. Reach Comeaux at ellen.comeaux@tiaabank.com.

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