Authors List

Authors

  • Mark Monro

    Mark Monro is the director of strategic markets for Seattle Funding Group. He is based in Solana Beach, California, and has more than 20 years of experience in real estate and construction finance. He previously worked with Washington Mutual Bank and U.S. Bank, funding more than $1 billion in construction transactions across the western United States in those positions.

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  • George Morales is the reverse mortgage product manager at Mortgage Cadence, managing reverse mortgage enhancements for the company’s platform. He supports products, provides business case support and rationale for these enhancements, and serves as an in-house reverse mortgage expert for both Mortgage Cadence and its clients. Morales has 24 years of mortgage and real estate industry experience, with 11 of them focused on the reverse mortgage market.

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  • Alvaro Moreira is director of strategic growth at Mortgage Right, where he has helped many mortgage producers significantly increase their income. Moreira helps branch managers and loan originators reach their true potential by helping them grow their businesses with marketing, recruiting and increased efficiency. If you’ve been considering making a change and you’re looking for someone who can help you reach your goals while overcoming obstacles, contact Moreira at (404) 808-4842 or al@mortgageright.com.

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  • Ward Morrison

    Ward Morrison is the president of Motto Franchising LLC. With more than 150 franchises sold and more than 100 offices open in 30-plus states, Motto Franchising LLC’s unique national-franchise mortgage brokerage model is the first of its kind in the U.S. Under Morrison’s leadership, Motto Mortgage has received numerous industry accolades in its short three-year history, including recently ranking on the 2020 Entrepreneur Franchise 500.

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  • Barbara Morrison, a Bay Area business and civic leader, is the founder and president of TMC Financing, a certified development company that provides SBA 504 commercial real estate financing. Since 1981, TMC has provided SBA funding for real estate projects totaling more than $10 billion in California, Nevada and Arizona, benefiting nearly 6,000 businesses and creating an estimated 60,000 jobs throughout the region. TMC Financing was the No. 1 SBA 504 lender in the nation by dollar volume in fiscal year 2021.

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  • Christopher Moschner is chief marketing officer at Finance of America. Moschner has spent his 20-plus-year career delivering winning marketing strategies. By leveraging his technical background, he has focused on simplifying complex product concepts to better demonstrate customer value and drive sales growth. He previously worked for insurance and annuity companies Protective Life and Brighthouse Financial. Before that, Moschner worked as a brand manager for Procter & Gamble. Reach Moschner at (866) 948-0003. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of his employer. This article does not provide tax or financial planning advice. Please consult the applicable professional for such advice.

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  • Dan Mugge is chief operating officer for Calque, a leader in empowering established lenders to offer innovative mortgage solutions, including its flagship product, The Trade-In Mortgage. Mugge is an expert in business technology with 25 years of experience in strategy and development within the mortgage and real estate service industries. He has held various senior technology and business management roles at leading companies including First American, CoreLogic and Black Knight.

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  • Natalie Mullen is the market leader of mortgage and banking at Jornaya. She is an advocate for empowering fellow marketers to redefine success through the connection of insightful data with powerful modern marketing technology. With more than 15 years of experience through her work at Jornaya, and previously at Oracle Marketing Cloud, Mullen has assisted hundreds of enterprise marketers to evolve into modern marketing strategists. She also is on the steering committee of the Women of Martech.

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  • Rosa Mumm

    Rosa Mumm is the product support manager for CreditXpert Inc. Her extensive background in usability and product design ensures that CreditXpert Inc.’s products meet the needs of end users, including lenders and mortgage brokers, so there is never a need for the typical support role.

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  • Peter Muoio

    Peter Muoio, Ph.D., serves as head of SitusAMC Insights. Muoio has more than 30 years of commercial real estate research and analytics experience. Previously, he served as chief economist and head of data insights at Ten-X Commercial, and he headed up CW Capital’s research group. He founded and ran Maximus Advisors, a leading independent real estate research firm. He was global head of real estate research at Deutsche Bank, and he started and ran real estate research at Bankers Trust Co. 

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  • Natalie Myrick

    Natalie Myrick is the director of mortgage solutions at Built Technologies. She is responsible for helping lenders, builders and borrowers, primarily on the residential side, improve the construction lending process. Prior to joining Built, Myrick was the vice president of home lending construction and systems manager at Umpqua Bank. Myrick has a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor’s degree in managerial accounting from Kaplan University.

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  • Will Nelson

    Will Nelson joined Columbia Pacific Advisors in 2015 and specializes in business-development and loan-structuring strategies. He has participated in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, project management, entitlement work and property management of approximately 1.5 million square feet of real estate assets in the U.S. and Canada. Columbia Pacific Advisors is a Seattle-based investment company founded by Dan Baty, Stan Baty and Alex Washburn. It has completed more than $10 billion in transactions. 

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