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Daniel Sobin is vice president of originations at Select Commercial Funding LLC, a nationwide commercial mortgage brokerage company. A passionate commercial real estate expert, Sobin is a proud member of the Inter-Capital Group, a nationwide alliance of commercial mortgage professionals. Reach Sobin at (516) 596-8297 or visit selectcommercial.com.
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Rachael Sokolowski is president of Magnolia Technologies LLC. She is a recognized leader, technology evangelist, trusted adviser and author in the mortgage banking industry. Sokolowski is currently co-chair of the MISMO eMortgage Community of Practice and is certified by MISMO as a Mortgage Standards Professional (CMSP). In 2016, Sokolowski received the MISMO Chairman’s Award and was named by Mortgage Women Magazine as a technology leader and entrepreneur in the industry.
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Lyle D. Solomon is an attorney with Oak View Law Group. Solomon has significant hands-on skill and expertise in legal research and writing, along with extensive litigation experience. He has been licensed with the State Bar of California since 2003. He graduated from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento in 1998 and currently works in Rocklin, California. Visit ovlg.com or learn more about Solomon at ovlg.com/attorneys/lyle-david-solomon
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Joel C. Solomon is of counsel at Foley and Lardner LLP, where he focuses on real estate. His experience includes acquisitions and sales, lending for condominium, office and multifamily development, and project development and management. He previously acted as general counsel at ST Residential LLC, a consortium between private equity, including Starwood Capital, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and as general counsel for Corus Bank.
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Jeremy Sopko is co-founder and CEO of Nations Lending Corp., one of the nation’s largest direct mortgage lenders. He started the business in 2003 with just nine employees. Today, Nations Lending has grown to fund $2 billion in loans and has seen triple-digit revenue growth over the last three years (233%). He also is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner, and under his leadership Nations Lending was named to the 2018 Inc.
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Owen Sorensen is CEO of PlanetVerify, a personal data and document collection company. He is an electronic engineer with 25 years of experience working as a co-owner and executive director of an international manufacturing and retail company that employs 500 people. After experiencing a minor hacking on his personal bank account, Sorensen realized that the area of personal data and identity was essentially broken, and he founded PlanetVerify to fix it.
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K. Spencer is a managing partner for Spencer Acquisitions LLC. He started in finance as an intern with UBS in its private-client group, then worked in recruitment for a financial adviser externally and in-house for a boutique investment brokerage. Spencer has worked as a financial analyst focusing on mortgage market analysis and forecasting, an account executive for a commercial real estate lender and a vice president of commercial finance for a retail mortgage broker.
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Karyn Sper is the director of Fannie Mae’s multifamily green and healthy-housing financing business. She focuses on developing and implementing financing products that increase the health and sustainability of the country’s multifamily housing stock and creating analytical tools to assess the impact of green financing. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Sper spent five years in commercial real estate loan underwriting and business development at MMA Realty Capital, and eight years in environmental consulting, where she specialized in solid waste management and pollution prevention.
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is vice president of originations at CoreVest Finance. He graduated cum laude from Pepperdine University in 2003 with a degree in business administration and has more than 14 years of experience in loan origination and finance, both in the retail and wholesale mortgage channels. His roles have given him extensive knowledge in appraisals, valuation, underwriting, capital markets and mortgage-origination management. As one of the company’s top producers, he has established himself as a prominent originator in the SFR investment lending industry. Reach Spivey at corevestfinance.com or dennis@cvest.com.
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Niko Spyridonos is CEO and founder of Autoagent, the market leading escrow tax processor with modernized service-focused solutions that eliminates refunds and provides up-to-the-minute accurate tax data and escrow payment processing for mortage lenders. The company’s customer-focused approach results in simplifying the revenue process for its mortgage lenders and government partners.
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Chris Stafford is the business development officer at Seattle Funding Group, which is an unleveraged private money lender. Since 1988, Seattle Funding Group has been providing short-term real estate-backed debt capital on investment properties throughout the Western U.S. Reach Stafford at (425) 455-1733.
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Dave Stagnitti is vice president of strategic accounts at Enact (formerly Genworth Mortgage Insurance), where he supports a base of national accounts. Stagnitti also teaches for the Mortgage Bankers Association’s School of Mortgage Banking. The statements provided are the opinions of Stagnitti and do not reflect the views of Enact or its management.
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