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Shane Pierson

Shane Pierson is the Co-Founder of Lords of Lending and the SBA National Sales Manager at Community Bank & Trust, where he leverages nearly two decades of experience in commercial and small business lending. Specializing in SBA 7(a) loan originations, Shane works closely with brokers, entrepreneurs, and business owners to structure financing that supports acquisitions, real estate purchases, working capital, and long-term growth. Through Lords of Lending, he helps demystify the lending process with honest, practical guidance for business buyers and brokers navigating the SBA market.

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Jeffrey Pirhalla

Jeffrey Pirhalla is president of Woodland Hills Capital, a wholesale commercial lender based in Woodland Hills, Calif. Pirhalla is a Florida Association of Mortgage Brokers faculty instructor and teaches commercial courses nationally.

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Tony Pistilli

Tony Pistilli is general manager, Valuations for Restb.ai, the leader in computer vision and AI for real estate. With over 30 years of executive-level real estate valuation and lending experience, he is responsible for expanding the company’s influence in the valuation and appraisal industry and fostering relationships with lenders and other industry partners.

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Michele Pitale

Michele Pitale is a managing director at CounterpointeSRE. She heads the company’s PACE team, including overseeing many of the largest C-PACE transactions to date. Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors is an investment manager and portfolio company of Mass Mutual that invests at the intersection of the commercial real estate and energy industries through diversified ESG Infrastructure investments, including C-PACE, green mortgages and other clean energy investments. Since 2013, Counterpointe has had a major impact in reducing the commercial building sector’s carbon footprint and in providing resiliency to the nation’s infrastructure. Reach Pitale at (855) 431-4400.

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Roger Platt

Roger Platt is the senior vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). In addition, he is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and the Center for Architecture. Before joining USGBC in 2009, Platt served for 15 years as senior vice president and counsel at the Real Estate Roundtable. Before that, he was a senior land-use associate with the Coblentz law firm in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of San Francisco School of Law.

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Roger Portela

Roger Portela is senior director of product at PayNearMe, where he leads customer-facing product development teams. With more than 25 years of payments and product experience, Portela ensures PayNearMe’s solutions lead the market by reducing consumer friction and offering the widest range of payment options and channels, all while staying focused on security and reliability to ensure clients collect every payment, every time.

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Archana Pradhan

Archana Pradhan holds the position of principal economist at Cotality. With years of experience in housing economics, applied econometrics and spatial analysis, she is responsible for analyzing housing and mortgage markets. Prior to joining Cotality, she was program manager and senior research analyst at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. She earned her doctorate in natural resource economics from West Virginia University.

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Madelaine Prescott

Madelaine Prescott is a Transactional Attorney on the Banking and Finance team at Fortra Law. She works with private lenders, striving to provide the highest level of client service. Her main responsibilities include preparing and reviewing documents for various transactions and providing compliance advice. Laine received her Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law. She also holds a BA in political science from Miami University.

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Christopher Ptomey

Christopher Ptomey is the executive director of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Housing. The Terwilliger Center leverages the vast knowledge and experience of ULI’s membership to advance residential development and housing affordability through research, local and national convenings, and consultation. Prior to joining ULI in 2018, Ptomey led Habitat for Humanity International’s U.S. government relations and advocacy team for more than a decade. Ptomey holds degrees from Haverford College and George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, as well as a law license in his native Tennessee.

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Ashley Pulver

Ashley Pulver is co-founder of INX Insurance Services LLC, which administers FloodPrice.com. FloodPrice.com works with the nation’s top private flood insurers to provide agents and their policyholders with comprehensive flood-insurance coverage and rates that rival the National Flood Insurance Program.

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Joe Puthur

Joe Puthur is the president of Mortgage Coach, a leading borrower education and sales-enablement platform, where he has helped thousands of lenders meet the unique housing-finance needs of millions of U.S. homeowners. During his 20-year career, Puthur has played a prominent role in shaping the digital mortgage landscape and keeping affordable homeownership accessible. Puthur pioneered technology that transformed Encompass from a desktop tool to a software-as-a-service application. Reach him at joe@mortgagecoach.com.

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Mike Querrey

Mike Querrey is national sales manager for Castle & Cooke Mortgage, one of the nation’s leading independent mortgage lenders with locations across the United States. The company headquartered in Draper, Utah, has more than 300 employees and is founded on four core values — honesty, integrity, transparency and reliability.

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