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Chris de la Motte

Chris de la Motte is CEO and co-founder of Sonar, the groundbreaking mortgage experience platform celebrated for revolutionizing the digital mortgage landscape. Backed by FirstMark and Liberty Mutual, Sonar is an integrated loan origination, point of sale software, product pricing engine and customer relationship management platform, powering the entire mortgage journey from application to closing. Prior to Sonar, de la Motte was president of Simplist, one of the fastest- growing digital mortgage companies. Visit Sonar at yoursonar.com.
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Sarah DeCiantis

Sarah DeCiantis is executive vice president and chief marketing officer at United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM). She leads UWM’s marketing, public relations, advertising, social media, creative and customerrelationship management system that have established the company as the gold standard of the wholesale mortgage industry.
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Brian Decker

Brian Decker is CEO of Modern Lending, a mortgage bank operating in 15 states with locations in California, Tennessee and Arizona. In 2022, Decker stepped into a full-time role as CEO of Modern Lending. That same year, he also founded Soar Energy with HGTV stars Tarek and Heather El Moussa, as well as United Wholesale Lending CEO Shelby Elias.
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Ralph DeFranco

Ralph DeFranco is global chief economist of the mortgage group at Arch Capital Services Inc., White Plains, N.Y. He leads the company’s efforts to forecast regional home prices and develop predictive economic models. He also is the author of The Housing and Mortgage Market Review, a quarterly report on the state of the nation’s housing sector, which includes probabilities of home-price declines from the Arch MI Risk Index.
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Michael Delehanty

Michael Delehanty is the chief financial officer of Mountain West Financial, headquartered in Redlands, Calif., and a board member of the Community Home Lenders Association (CHLA). He has spent over 20 years in the mortgage industry focusing primarily in capital markets and management.
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Matt Delventhal

Matt Delventhal is a principal economist on Cotality's Office of the Chief Economist team. He researches the impact of demographics on the housing market and attempts to unravel the mysteries of raw listings data. His research on the impact of remote work on real estate demand has been published in journals including the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Urban Economics. He has held academic positions at Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California.

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Paul Dempsey

Paul Dempsey is the director of marketing at 360factors. He has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, branding, product development, and interactive and e-commerce management within the financial services, software-as-a-service and manufacturing space.
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Dave Demster

Dave Demster is executive vice president of sales and marketing at PrivoCorp and is a mortgage industry veteran with over 25 years of executive management experience. He brings extensive experience providing thought leadership, technology solutions and business-processing- outsourcing services to the mortgage industry, with a focus on servicing and default, origination, business intelligence and customer experience management.
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Anna DeSimone

Anna DeSimone is president of Housing Research LLC and provides consulting services and policy development in the areas of fair lending, loan operations, quality control, servicing and information security. She has written over 40 industry handbooks published by AllRegs, the MBA of America and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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Peter Desmond

Peter Desmond is the marketing manager for Wisetek, a global leader in information technology (IT) asset disposition, data destruction and IT reuse. Desmond has worked with businesses in the financial industry to ensure they are managing their data correctly.
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Seth DeWitt

Seth DeWitt is an accounting officer at Holland, Michigan-based Lighthouse Title Group, which serves over 50 markets across Michigan and Wisconsin. DeWitt started at Lighthouse in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in business accounting from Hope College, after interning at the company the year before. DeWitt attends concerts, enjoys playing musical instruments and devotes much of his spare time to his rescue husky Blitzen.
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Krish Dhokia

Krish Dhokia is senior vice president of marketing at Kind Lending LLC. With more than 20 years of experience in the arena, Dhokia has honed his craft in lead generation and social networking, spanning small to large businesses across multiple industries. Nicknamed “Crush it Krish,” Dhokia was one of the 2016 recipients of the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40” award and is a frequent speaker in the mortgage, finance and real estate spaces.
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