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Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry is CEO of Endurance Advisory Partners, a bank risk management consulting firm. Curry has been providing advisory services to management teams and boards of national and regional banks, financial services companies, start-ups and private investor groups since leaving Bank of America in 2009. He has successfully guided these firms through acquisitions and divestitures, merger integrations, digital transformations, operational restructurings, implementation of growth strategies and resolved complex regulatory issues. In addition, Curry has served as chairman, CEO or president at banks ranging in size from $800 million to $30 billion.

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Brian Daily

Brian Daily is senior vice president of production at Mountain West Financial Inc. In this role, Daily is responsible for overall company management, designing and implementing growth strategies while creating world-class experiences for clients within the wholesale channel. He has more than 30 years of experience in mortgage banking. He has managed, built and implemented strategies pertaining to origination channel rollout, mass national market expansion and business-to-business client-experience feedback platforms. Reach Daily at brian.daily@mwfinc.com.

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Jonathan Daniel

Jonathan Daniel is a principal at Knighthead Funding in Greenwich, Connecticut. Prior to joining Knighthead in 2013, Daniel was the principal and founder of Silo Financial Corp., a private equity-based real estate finance company. Throughout his career, he has sourced, originated and serviced more than $1 billion in commercial-mortgage products, and he has developed innovative deal structures for a diverse range of commercial- property owners.

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Mike Darne

Mike Darne is vice president of marketing for CreditXpert, a company working to expand homeownership opportunities by making mortgage credit scores more transparent and by helping borrowers reach their true credit potential.

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Jeremy Ray Davis

Jeremy Ray Davis is an award-winning housing executive, author and speaker known for building modern market outreach and culture-driven customer acquisition strategies that strengthen trust and fuel growth. As president of mortgage at Southern Bancorp, a $5 billion CDFI, he balances margin with mission — proving business growth and expanded homeownership access can go hand in hand. Davis also serves as co-chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s national Community Bank Network, helping shape conversations around the future of community-based mortgage lending.

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Tom Davis

Tom Davis is chief sales officer of non-QM lender Deephaven Mortgage. He joined Deephaven in 2022 and has more than 20 years of experience helping lending partners with their non-QM and agency needs. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida Atlantic University, where he double majored in finance and management. Deephaven was founded in 2012 and led the formation and development of the non-QM market. Reach Davis at tdavis@deephavenmortgage.com or visit deephavenmortgage.com.

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Jeremy Davis

Jeremy Davis is CEO at InQlusion Mortgage Capital, a Panorama Mortgage Group (PMG) company. For nearly 20 years, Davis has advocated for underserved communities. Before joining PMG, he served as director of mortgage for FirstBank, where he led the FirstBank Forward division, an initiative with a specific mission of bridging the homeownership gap that minorities face. Prior to that, Davis led similar successful expansions into new market territories for Synovus, Fifth Third Bank and JPMorgan Chase.

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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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