Authors List

Authors

  • Farrukh Hasanov

    Farrukh Hasanov is co-founder and CEO of Hasanov Capital. He is an experienced entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience launching and managing successful businesses, including two retail pharmacies in Brooklyn, New York, and security-integration consulting company NeoRising Technologies. Hasanov also is an active real estate investor specializing in acquisitions, repositioning, refinancing and sales of multi-family properties.

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  • Jim Hawksworth

    Jim Hawksworth is director of operations at Realfinity, which passionately believes in providing homeowners with the insight they need to make the right financial investments at the most pivotal times. In working with the nation’s leading mortgage lenders, Realfinity enables loan advisers to offer homeowners the unique HomeDashboard platform, allowing borrowers an opportunity to gain access to up-to-date housing information daily. To learn more, visit realfinity.io. 

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  • T.R. Hazelrigg IV

    T.R. Hazelrigg IV is president and co-founder of Avatar Financial Group. His primary focus is loan origination and development of Avatar’s broker network. Over the course of his career, Hazelrigg has originated, structured and funded in excess of $1 billion in nonconforming loans. 

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  • John Heck is senior adviser of lending solutions at Capacity, a software-technology company that uses artificial intelligence to automate support for clients and employees. He has held senior-level positions at IBM, EMC², First American, Fidelity National Financial, PNC Financial and Citigroup. Heck’s passion is to transform the mortgage industry by delivering a digitally native and cloud-delivered mortgage platform, which standardizes asset creation based on investor needs while delivering a true value proposition for lenders and borrowers. 

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  • Nick Hedges

    Nick Hedges is CEO of MomentFeed, and is a 20-year veteran of the internet and software-as-a-service industry. Hedges joined MomentFeed after serving as senior vice president at Ellie Mae, the leading cloud-based mortgage platform provider. Previously, Hedges was president and CEO of Velocify, the leading consumer-sales acceleration platform for mortgages and other financial services. He helped orchestrate the successful sale of Velocify to Ellie Mae in 2017. Reach Hedges at nhedges@momentfeed.com.

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  • Leslie Heimer

    Leslie Heimer is the relationship manager for American Liberty Mortgage in Orlando, Florida. A sixth-generation Central Florida native, Heimer provides a high-touch lending experience in the Florida branch offices for the nationwide lending company. She has earned a spot on National Mortgage Professional Magazine’s “Mortgage Banking’s Most Powerful Women” list and has been featured in the Orlando Business Journal for her community-relations efforts, in addition to her entrepreneurial spirit. 

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  • Kevin Henderson

    Kevin Henderson is director of commercial loan underwriting at District, where he is responsible for the underwriting and structuring of bridge loans. He attended Santa Clara University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in finance. Henderson worked as an office and industrial real estate specialist at Marcus & Millichap, then joined New York Life Real Estate Investors (NYLREI) in its San Francisco field office. At NYLREI, he was responsible for underwriting and analysis of more than $5 billion in real estate in multiple sectors and geographies.

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  • Tom Hennessy is president and CEO of Challenger Homes. He has extensive experience in the homebuilding and land development industry. Before joining Challenger Homes, he worked at Taylor Morrison as the division president and also served as the vice president of land resources. Hennessy has also worked as the general manager of Douglas Ranch, a sustainable master planned community in Arizona, and held various leadership positions at Pulte Homes and Del Webb.

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  • Jennifer Henry

    Jennifer Henry is vice president and vertical-marketing leader at Equifax Mortgage Services. She is responsible for pricing, product management, product marketing, campaign management, and mergers and acquisitions. Henry brings more than 20 years of experience to her position at Equifax, including operations, technology, marketing, sales, product management, mortgage loan quality and loan-origination services. Prior to her position at Equifax, she held leadership roles at First American Mortgage Solutions and Fannie Mae.

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  • Selma Hepp is a senior vice president and chief economist for Cotality, formerly CoreLogic, the nation’s largest provider of advanced property and ownership information, analytics and data-enabled services. Hepp leads the economics team, which is responsible for analyzing, interpreting and forecasting trends in real estate, mortgage and insurance. Prior to joining Cotality, she was chief economist and vice president of business intelligence for Pacific Union International, later acquired by Compass.

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  • Kristen Herhold

    Kristen Herhold is the public relations editor at Clever Real Estate, the nation’s leading real estate education platform for homebuyers, sellers and investors. In her free time, Herhold enjoys reading, traveling, and cheering on the Denver Broncos and Missouri Tigers. Connect with Herhold on LinkedIn.

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  • Hiroshi Hishida

    Hiroshi Hishida is the owner of North Star Capital Manage- ment LLC, an investment-adviser company that helps people achieve their financial and retirement goals. Hishida worked for 10 years for Greenpoint Mortgage as a wholesale account executive. To learn more about North Star Capital Management, visit northscm.com. 

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