Authors List

Authors

  • Jeffrey Nelson

    Jeffrey Nelson is the founder of Salesachievers Inc. He teaches real estate and mortgage professionals how to grow their personal brands, become recognized as local celebrity experts and attract referrals. He is the author of “Atomic Leads: Fix the Broken Process and Start Attracting Referrals Like a Magnet.” Nelson spent six years promoting Tom Hopkins sales-training seminars nationwide before starting a media agency to help real estate agents and mortgage originators convert clients into promoters, rather than wasting money on cold leads.

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  • Niki Nevarez

    Niki Nevarez is regional vice president of operations of Mountain West Financial Inc. She is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the leadership and development of both retail and wholesale teams in the mortgage industry. Nevarez has a unique vision that encompasses both operations and sales perspectives with a strong sense of company culture. In her current role, Nevarez is responsible for leading Mountain West’s Orange County/Los Angeles operations team.

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  • Felicia Newbern is senior vice president of national sales at BNT Title Co. of California, which is part of the Boston National Title Agency LLC family. Newbern is an active volunteer who serves as founder and president of the Enduring Love Foundation; vice president of development for CIM; treasurer of the Baja Educational Initiative; director of sponsorship for the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ Montebello Southeast LA Chapter; and as a foster parent with Safe Families for Children. She also hosts homebuilding projects for the poor in Mexico with Baja Bound and supports an orphanage of 150 children in the Congo. Connect with Newbern on LinkedIn.

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  • Veronica Nguyen

    Veronica Nguyen is the co-founder of BeSmartee, which created one of the first mortgage point-of-sale platforms to automate the mortgage process and streamline the consumer experience. Nguyen is passionate about building technology that helps improve the mortgage origination process and industry as a whole. Nguyen believes everyone should have equal opportunity to shop for a home in a seamless and transparent way. She won the 2020 HousingWire Women of Influence and the 2021 Mortgage Star by Mortgage Women Magazine awards. 

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  • Kim Nichols is chief third-party origination production officer and oversees all broker and non-delegated correspondent production at Pennymac. She offers over 30 years of expertise in various mortgage financial service areas, including capital markets, operations, underwriting, and credit across all production channels. Nichols joined Pennymac in 2011 as part of the core leadership team charged with building the foundation for what is now the largest correspondent investor in the country.

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  • Liliana Nigrelli

    Liliana Nigrelli is chief compliance officer for Churchill Mortgage. Churchill is a privately owned company by its more than 400 employees. A full-service and financially sound leader in the mortgage industry, the company provides conventional, FHA, VA and USDA residential mortgages across 46 states.

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  • Michael Ninomiya

    Michael Ninomiya is the South Florida regional manager at VanDyk Mortgage Corp. He has successfully owned, created and managed three top-producing mortgage offices, and has mentored, coached and launched the careers of more than 100 loan officers and mortgage managers. Ninomiya is a featured speaker for real estate groups in Miami and Broward County and has sat or sits on the board of directors of several industry associations in South Florida. 

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  • Carlos Nodarse is the CEO of Applied Business Software Inc. (ABS), a leader in mortgage servicing and origination software since 1978. Nodarse joined ABS in high school, provided customer service, and quickly learned what clients needed and wanted. Nodarse served as a lead developer at ABS for more than 30 years. His knowledge of the mortgage industry, mortgage funds and real estate lending, alongside his technical expertise, gave him the unique skills necessary to develop the company’s flagship product, The Mortgage Office, the most powerful software in today's private lending market.

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  • Justin Nolette leads the Sterling Edmonton sales team, driving a dynamic sales and marketing strategy. With deep market insight and a knack for targeting audiences, Nolette excels in demand generation. His extensive background includes software sales and teaching marketing at the University of Alberta, enriching Sterling Homes with invaluable expertise.

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  • Laird Nossuli is CEO of iEmergent, a provider of mortgage lending forecasts and analytics to the lending, housing and real estate industries. For more than 20 years Nossuli has dedicated her career to helping lenders execute opportunity-driven lending strategies that support equitable lending in racially and ethnically diverse communities. Her passion for housing equity, novel use of market intelligence and collaboration with housing workgroups have made her an influential speaker on serving diverse markets.

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  • Frank E. Nothaft is chief economist for CoreLogic, America’s largest provider of advanced property and ownership information, analytics and data-enabled services. He leads the economics team responsible for analysis, commentary and forecasting trends in global real estate, insurance and mortgage markets. Before joining CoreLogic, Nothaft served as chief economist for Freddie Mac. Prior to Freddie Mac, he was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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  • Romy Nourafchan is a senior mortgage loan officer at Insignia Mortgage, having been involved in residential mortgage lending for the past 34 years. As a key member of Insignia, Nourafchan has assisted thousands of high-net-worth clients in achieving success with their more complicated home and investment property financing needs. Nourafchan was the Scotsman Guide Top Jumbo Originator in 2022 and has been consistently ranked among the top brokers across industry-leading platforms over the last several years.

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