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Laura Lasher

Laura Lasher is co-founder of both Worthy Performance Group and Redefining Business Intelligence. She is an award-winning executive with over 40 years of experience in home finance, real estate sales and development and entrepreneurship. She holds a real estate broker’s license in Nebraska and a practitioner certificate from The Institute of Woman-Centered Coaching. Formerly, she served as president of the mortgage division of Arbor Bank.
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Matt Lavinder

Matt Lavinder is the founder and president of New Again Houses, a real estate redevelopment and technology franchise specializing in the entrepreneurial acquisition, renovation and profitable resale of older homes — adding value through construction upgrades. Backed by a proven business model, proprietary analysis software and an exclusive $34 million lending relationship with Alta Capital, New Again Houses has grown to 61 locations throughout the U.S. Matt can be reached at matt@newagainhouses.com.

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Sherwood Lawrence

Sherwood Lawrence is chief creative officer and chief marketing officer at Top of Mind Networks. One of Top of Mind’s original founders, he leads the company’s content and marketing strategies with a focus on innovative execution and engaging content that helps lenders generate revenue and awareness. His contributions have helped Surefire CRM become the mortgage industry’s most-used marketing-automation platform. Lawrence holds a master’s degree from the University of Florida.
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Bradley Lawrence

Bradley Lawrence is principal of Bradley Lawrence Private Capital in Portland, Oregon. He has been lending, investing equity, structuring and advising on hard money for 20 years. He has arranged and funded nearly $250 million in transactions. He also has three years of experience in special-assets resolution, including distressed notes and property workouts. When not working, Lawrence enjoys traveling, and he has visited more than 25 countries with his wife and children.
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Kristopher Lazzaretti

Kristopher Lazzaretti is president of data solutions at Deluxe, a full-service marketing solutions company. Deluxe identifies up to 600,000 pre-movers each week, one to two full weeks ahead of the competition. The company ingests and stitches together hundreds of independent data feeds, and it partners with the three major credit bureaus to create a unified data fabric that is clean and ready for deployment. Learn more about Deluxe’s mover marketing programs at deluxe.com.
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Brian Lee

Brian A. Lee is an Atlanta-based freelance writer and former editor of Western Real Estate Business magazine. He does work for the William Mills Agency, a public-relations company that represents Access Point Financial on special projects.
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Rich Leffler

Rich Leffler is the director of training/senior instructor for AxSellerated Development, which offers guidance that you need to pass the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) test. An award-winning mortgage expert, business coach, and speaker, Leffler has excelled in customer service, research, mortgage origination, training and consulting. He regularly lectures on compliance, sales and winning customer-service strategies, and is available for in-house training, speaking engagements, tutoring, personal coaching, and seminars.
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Jeff Leinan

Jeff Leinan is executive vice president of national wholesale production for Plaza Home Mortgage. In this role, Leinan is charged with driving the growth of the company’s wholesale, reverse and renovation lending businesses.
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Thomas Lemke

Thomas P. Lemke is a retired financial-services executive who last served as general counsel and head of governance for a major firm. He also is the co-author of a number of financial-services publications, including “Mortgage-Backed Securities” (Thomson Reuters, 2020). Reach Lemke at tlemkemwk@gmail.com.
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Dick Lepre

Dick Lepre is a loan agent for CrossCountry Mortgage LLC. He has been in the mortgage business since 1992 and has been writing a weekly email newsletter on macroeconomics, mortgages and housing since 1995. Lepre (NMLS No. 302379) is from New York City, but he has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1968. He has a degree in physics from Notre Dame. Follow him on Twitter @dicklepre.
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Michael Leshinsky

Michael Leshinsky is the founder and CEO of Leshinsky Finance, which primarily offers services to small businesses and real estate developers. He has an MBA from Providence College with a concentration in finance, portfolio theory and investment analysis. Leshinsky has bought and sold numerous businesses during his career and has acquired a sizable real estate holding. He consults and advises businesses of all types and sizes, helping them achieve optimal performance.
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Alex Levi

Alex Levi is managing director for the Truststar.ai product line at CognitiveScale. With more than 20 years of experience as a technology business executive, Levi started focusing on mortgage tech in 2015 when he co-founded AI Foundry, a mortgage documents recognition company that was subsequently acquired by Guaranteed Rate. Currently, Levi is focused on enabling mortgage loan officers and executives to leverage the power of data and the latest artificial intelligence technology to perform at the highest level. Reach Levi at alevi@cognitivescale.com or (617) 276-2137.
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