Authors List

Authors

  • Creighton Bildstein

    Creighton C. Bildstein is a principal at PlattPointe Capital in Denver. PlattPointe is a nationwide commercial lending intermediary that seeks to meet the lending needs of its clients when more traditional bank products fall short. PlattPointe offers alternative capital solutions for funding all types of commercial real estate projects, small and medium-sized businesses and asset-based financing needs. 

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  • Samuel Bjelac is senior vice president of Third-Party Originations at Carrington Mortgage Services. His primary areas of responsibility include aligning the wholesale and correspondent sales organizations with Carrington’s overall objectives. Previously, Bjelac worked as executive vice president of national sales at Sprout Mortgage, while also leading the third-party origination teams at CoreVest Finance and LendingOne. He’s responsible for building on Carrington’s existing non-QM foundation, which is a critical part of the company’s ongoing lending business strategy.

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  • Dennis Black is the CEO of Dennis Black and Associates, a training organization devoted exclusively to the development of sales and management professionals within the lending industry. Dennis Black and Associates has trained more than 120,000 mortgage professionals throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Black speaks at conferences sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association and NAMB - The Association of Mortgage Professionals about selling strategies and is a frequent speaker at state conferences.

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  • Jim Black is strategic adviser for Calque and is founder and chief lending officer for ReVest Homes. He is a 20-year veteran in mortgage loan originations. He has consistently been ranked among the top mortgage originators by Scotsman Guide. Black brings a marketing and strategic perspective for integrating the mortgage broker and mortgage banking into custom solutions that are in the best interest of the client, not the bank.

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  • Berekk Blackwell is president and chief operating officer of Zoned Properties. He has also served as president of Daily Jam Holdings LLC and vice president of Due North Holdings LLC. Prior to joining Zoned Properties, Blackwell developed domestic and international markets for Kahala Brands, a global franchise organization with more than 3,000 retail locations in over a dozen countries. He also led emerging brand and portfolio operations for several private equity groups investing in the restaurant franchise space.

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  • Stuart Blend

    Stuart Blend is regional sales manager for Planet Home Lending LLC, the correspondent division of Planet Financial Group LLC, a multi-channel nonbank with industry-leading pricing and products. Coming from a background of retail sales and running midsize retail organizations, Blend has focused his attention on assisting clients in growing their business through innovative products and knowledge of how to sell these products to referral partners. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect or represent the policies or positions of Planet Home Lending.

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  • Daren Blomquist is vice president of market economics at Auction.com. In this role, Blomquist analyzes and forecasts complex macroeconomic and microeconomic data trends to provide value to both buyers and sellers using the platform. Blomquist has been cited by thousands of media outlets nationwide, including major news networks, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today. Prior to Auction.com, Blomquist worked at Attom Data Solutions.

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  • Brad Blumberg is the founder of Aster Key, a mobile app that stems cybersecurity risk for mortgage companies by empowering consumers to anonymize, organize and encrypt their financial data on their mobile phones. Blumberg is an entrepreneur who co-founded Smarter Agent Mobile, which was acquired by Keller Williams International. Read more about Aster Key at www.asterkey.com.

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  • Jeff Bode

    Jeff Bode is president and CEO of Addison, Texas-based Mid America Mortgage. A pioneer in the adoption of digital mortgages and e-notes, Mid America Mortgage offers a number of loan programs designed to address the challenges that face today’s buyers (including downpayment-assistance programs) through its retail, wholesale and correspondent channels.

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  • Brian Bodo

    Brian Bodo is director of government lending at Firstrust Bank, based in the Philadelphia metro area. He has specialized in small-business lending for more than 20 years. As head of SBA lending at Firstrust, a PLP lender, Bodo works in tandem with the team at Firstrust subsidiary APEX Mortgage Corp. in Horsham, Pa., and has been instrumental in introducing a new 7(a) loan-product offering for APEX.

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  • Mike Boggiano is a founding member of the Academy for Commercial Lending. He has over 35 years of experience in commercial real estate and finance, having originated over $5 billion in commercial mortgages across various loan sizes and programs. Through the academy, he helps residential mortgage brokers and Realtors transition into commercial lending. He developed and teaches the ‘Small Balance Commercial Mortgages Made Easy’ course, providing brokers with essential tools for success.

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  • Jill Bohlken is mortgage strategic lead at PayNearMe, which partners with lenders and mortgage servicers to help automate the payment and collections processes while increasing client satisfaction by allowing borrowers to pay how, when and where they want. Bohlken has more than 20 years of experience in mortgage servicing with a focus on solving problems within the payment-processing space and driving up self-serve transactions while driving down operating costs.

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