Authors List

Authors

  • David Eichenblatt is president and founder of LGIS Group in Atlanta. He has more than three decades of experience as a commercial real estate investor and developer. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, holds degrees from Georgia State University and Florida State University, and holds the designation of Certified Commercial Investment Member. To learn more, visit lgisgroup.com.

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  • Alex Elezaj is chief strategy officer for United Wholesale Mortgage, a role in which he is laser focused on growing the independent mortgage broker channel. Prior to joining the company in 2018, Elezaj served as CEO of Class Appraisal Inc., which he led to become one of the nation’s largest and most successful appraisal management companies.

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  • Kent Elliott is a principal at RETS Associates, a leading real estate recruitment firm with a 99% success rate in conducting searches for top executives and senior or midlevel professionals across all real estate asset classes in the U.S. He founded RETS in 2002, and he holds degrees in political economics from the University of California at Berkeley and in business administration from UC Irvine.

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  • Theo Ellis is CEO and co-founder of Friday Harbor, a mortgage technology company backed by the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle. Friday Harbor puts the knowledge and judgment of an always-on expert underwriter into the hands of originators. Previously, Ellis was vice president of growth for Lenders One and head of growth, US at Pagaya Technologies. Earlier in his career he worked at PIMCO and McKinsey & Co.

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  • Joe Ellis

    Joe Ellis is a senior vice president at CBIZ Inc. and has dozens of years of experience in employee-benefits consulting. Ellis provides strategic advice and support on all aspects of employee-benefits plans. He also has several specialty areas related to health and welfare-benefit planning.

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  • Brian Emmons

    Brian A. Emmons joined Merchants Bank in 2016 as the senior vice president of commercial banking and participations. His role is primarily focused on managing a national network of participating bank partners and developing business. Emmons holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, with a minor in accounting. His professional career includes more than 30 years of banking and finance experience in a variety of roles. 

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  • Cindy Ertman is CEO and founder of The Defining Difference, a success-based mortgage coaching and training company devoted to helping mortgage professionals master the power of bold and intentional choices to create a defining difference in their own life and business. Her impressive career includes growing her personal production to over $200 million annually and co-leading a $1.2 billion mortgage branch, while growing from one to 20 branches in Southern California. Ten years ago, Ertman launched The Defining Difference, which has empowered thousands of mortgage loan originators nationally.

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  • Laura Escobar

    Laura Escobar is president of Eagle Home Mortgage, the mortgage lending subsidiary of Lennar Corp., one of the nation’s leading homebuilders. Escobar currently leads a team of more than 1,100 associates in 54 locations across 26 states. Under her leadership, loan officers are now spending less administrative time on each loan and processing times have shortened. Escobar is a 30-year mortgage industry veteran. She serves on several advisory boards and committees in the industry.

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  • Raymond Eshaghian

    Raymond Eshaghian is the president and founder of Greenbox Loans Inc., a wholesale lender specializing in nonqualified mortgages (non-QM) and nonprime loans. Eshaghian has more than 30 years of experience in mortgage lending in executive or principal roles. He has vast experience and expertise in the non-QM market.

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  • Mike Eshelman is a certified mortgage banker and is the head of consumer finance at Jornaya, a data-as-a-service platform that helps companies attract and retain clients using a proprietary network of more than 35,000 comparison-shopping and lead-generation sites. For more information, visit jornaya.com.

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  • Craig Evans

    Craig Evans is vice president of operations and digital lending at Fiserv Inc., a leading global provider of financialservices technology solutions. He has 35-plus years of experience in the banking and mortgage industries, working previously with leading U.S. banks such as Ally Financial, Bank of America, Washington Mutual, Fleet National Bank and First National Bank of Chicago. Evans resides with his wife Lori in Charlotte. He has four children and four grandchildren.

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  • Joe Evans

    Joe Evans is senior manager of mortgage at DocuSign, the largest e-signature provider in the world. He is responsible for developing secure, collaborative, compliant solutions that eliminate inefficient paper processes and help lenders support their residential lending programs. Prior to DocuSign, Evans worked on cloud services at Dell and VMware.

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