Authors List

Authors

  • Taylor Stork

    Taylor Stork is chief operating officer for Developer’s Mortgage Co. A seasoned business executive and certified mortgage banker, Stork has more than 20 years of experience in the industry and is passionate about enabling homeownership. He is an active member of the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Community Home Lenders Association, and he serves as an advisory council member for the Lenders One mortgage cooperative. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from San Diego State University. 

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  • Anthony Stratis is vice president of partnerships at Figure Technology Solutions Inc., where he spearheads the strategic distribution of lending products and cultivates a robust lending ecosystem by forging impactful partnerships with originators, asset managers, servicers and merchants. Prior to his role at Figure, Stratis held leadership positions across consumer lending and wealth management at Lehman Brothers, Barclays, JP Morgan and Finance of America.

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  • Craig Strent is currently the head of faculty at The Loan Atlas and the creator of the Financial Advisor Referral System. Strent served as the CEO and co-founder of Apex Home Loans, Inc., a company he sold in 2021. He originated in excess of $2 billion in loans from 1994-2023, primarily from alternative referral sources.

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  • Rob Strickland is chief revenue officer at VeriFast, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that automates financial analysis and decision making for tenant screening, mortgage underwriting and business lending. Based in New York City, Strickland is an operations executive with 20-plus years of success growing software and professional-services companies. He has a proven track record of leading and inspiring teams to consistently deliver against well-defined market strategies and objectives. Over the past five years, he has provided leadership for sales closings in excess of $100 million in total contract value.

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  • Jack Suddarth

    Jack Suddarth is president and founder of Equity Wave Lending Inc, an Irvine, Calif.-based wholesale direct hard/private money lender. Licensed since 1989, Suddarth enjoys serving the lending industry and has many decades of experience.

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  • Michael Sunnaa is CEO of Viewpoint Lending and managing partner at Lending 3. Sunnaa is a 25-year-plus veteran of the mortgage industry with a master’s in business administration who is currently working on his doctoral degree. His experience ranges from broker to banker to direct lender. Sunnaa has trained and managed more than 2,500 loan originators and continues to grow in changing markets. 

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  • Ike Suri

    Ike Suri is chairman and CEO of FundingShield LLC, a loan-level fraud-prevention and risk-management company that provides technology certified by the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) to help lenders manage the mortgage funding process and avoid wire-fraud schemes.

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  • Cory Swain is a managing partner of Premier Mortgage Resources LLC, NMLS No. 1169. Swain has been in the mortgage industry for 36 years. He joined PMR in 2015. Since then, PMR has expanded into a large part of the western U.S. PMR now has 31 licensed locations west of the Mississippi River and is staffed by more than 120 loan officers. The company has branches across eight states (Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Minnesota, Hawaii and Missouri). Swain currently resides with his wife and children in their hometown of Boise, Idaho.

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  • Ryan Swehla

    Ryan Swehla is the co-founder of Graceada Partners, a real estate investment firm based in Modesto, California. Swehla helps to lead the company’s investment activities, provides strategic direction and oversees capital sourcing for assets. Founded in 2008 during the Great Recession, Graceada Partners now has more than $500 million of assets under management.

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  • Ski Swiatkowski is an author and speaker who passionately shares the wisdom of his 39-year experience as a successful mortgage originator and executive. He’s the founder and owner of Radical Performance, a consulting and executive coaching firm that focuses on strategic planning, performance improvement, and leadership development for companies and individuals. Swiatkowski also serves as a member of the board of directors at Scotsman Guide Inc.

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  • Pallav Talwar is the CEO of Aritas Mortgage Solutions, a people-first knowledge process outsourcing company specializing in simplified mortgage processing for its clients. Aritas Mortgage’s approach is designed to help boost efficiency, streamline processes and reduce turn times. Over nearly two decades, Talwar has personally empowered numerous law firms, title companies, bankers, brokers and lenders with strategic outsourcing solutions. Reach Talwar at (727) 250-0924.

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  • Rohit Taneja is the founder and CEO of Decentro — India’s fastest-growing application programming interface banking platform for financial integrations. As a serial entrepreneur with 10-plus years of experience in the payments and banking space, Taneja is a recognized expert in online payments across multiple countries.

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