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  • Dan Bailey

    Dan Bailey is senior vice president of WFG Lender Services and WFG Enterprise Solutions. Bailey has nearly 20 years of experience in the title insurance industry, where he began his career as a compliance officer for a national title insurance company. He joined WFG in 2013, where he oversees operations for the lender services division, heads the enterprise solutions sales team and leads strategic direction for both organizations. 

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  • George Baker

    George Baker is founder and CEO of Talk’uments, which provides interactive, multilingual, multimedia loan disclosure technology. Baker has more than 30 years of experience in all facets of mortgage lending, especially loan production. He developed Talk’uments in 2016 to meet an emerging need for lenders to address compliance costs as well as to help them better serve rapidly changing client demographics. Learn more at talkuments.com. 

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  • Richard Bales

    Richard F. Bales is a senior underwriting consultant and counsel for Proper Title LLC, Illinois’ second-largest title-insurance agency that serves the residential and commercial real estate industries. Bales has been a guest lecturer and has written numerous articles on all aspects of title insurance.

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  • Jean Ballard serves as director of strategy and solutions at ThoughtFocus, specializing in the mortgage and lending sector. Ballard holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from the University of Virginia, an MBA in finance from George Mason University and a master’s degree in project management from George Washington University. She is passionate about utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency by integrating human expertise with technological solutions, including AI. Reach Ballard at jean.ballard@thoughtfocus.com.

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  • Itay Banayan

    is the vice president of real estate at Mindspace. He is a real estate finance professional with a great passion for new technology and innovation. He has experience in investment banking, real estate mergers and acquisitions, asset-level and corporate-level financial strategy, real estate finance, lease negotiations of large commercial spaces, strategic planning and strategic corporate communication. Banayan has an MBA degree from the NYU Stern School of Business.

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  • Alok Bansal is managing director of Visionet Systems Inc., and has more than 23 years of experience in managing strategy and global business process management operations. He excels in optimizing and leading growth of financial services companies that are looking to take their mortgage operations to the next level. He has been instrumental in leading large-scale technology initiatives and implementing scalable outsourcing services.

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  • Kunya Baramy is senior vice president and head of cloud services at Visionet Systems Inc., a premier digital technology company built on the premise of disruptive innovation. Baramy is a versatile technology leader who blends technical and financial expertise with strong experience in building cloud-services business. He currently heads the cloud business for Visionet and is responsible for the company’s Build, Grow and Deliver initiative. 

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  • Rob Barber is CEO at Attom, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties. He leads teams that diversify the business, improve the quality of revenue and generate returns for investors. He previously served as CEO of Environmental Data Resources, where he helped to scale the company from a niche data publisher into the nation’s largest transaction and business intelligence platform for commercial real estate due diligence. Learn more about Attom at attomdata.com.

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  • Derrick Barker is CEO of Nectar, which provides financing to professional real estate investors with low-leveraged, cash-flowing assets. He and his wife, Brittany Mosely, co-founded the company. Barker started building his real estate portfolio in 2010 as a senior at Harvard University. He transitioned into buying multifamily properties while working as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs. Barker and Mosely launched Nectar to provide mezzanine-level financing in real estate portfolios in a variety of asset classes.

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  • Garry Barnes

    Garry Barnes is managing director of PW Partners Consultancy, headquartered in Salt Lake City, and is a freelance writer. He is a former president and CEO of banks in Arizona, California and Utah. He has taught at the university level, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on banking, finance and real estate matters. Barnes has served on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Advisory Council and received the SBA Arizona Financial Services Advocate of the Year award.

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  • Tyler Barron is the chief revenue officer at Encapture, an intelligent automation platform providing banks with documentation efficiency. Using machine learning and AI technology, Encapture helps banks reduce compliance risks associated with fair lending guidelines, reduce overhead costs and improve profitability in a volatile market. 

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  • Fabio Baum

    Fabio Baum is managing director and senior underwriter at Parkview Financial, a direct private lender specializing in ground-up commercial and residential real estate financing. Baum focuses on underwriting, asset management and business development. He has expertise in equity investment, development, senior and mezzanine debt originations, dispositions and workouts. 

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