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Authors

  • Ian Walsh

    Ian Walsh is vice president of Hard Money Bankers LLC. He has been a full-time real estate investor since 2009. He entered the industry by building WeSellHomes2Fix. From there, he built a property-management company that was sold in 2015. During his time in the Philadelphia investment market with Hard Money Bankers, he has underwritten loans in the Eastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey markets. 

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  • Mark Wanic is president and chief operating officer of Pacific Program Management, where he executes the company’s business strategy while leading day-to-day operations and client growth. With more than 30 years of experience recruiting, organizing and leading diverse global organizations and teams, Wanic’s expertise spans several business sectors, including the commercial real estate industry. His industry experience has resulted in elevated client service, attraction and retention of superior professional talent, and the driving of significant business growth.

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  • Wayne Watkinson

    Wayne Watkinson is a principal attorney at Offit Kurman and is a member of the firm’s regulatory practice group. Watkinson’s practice focuses on representing mortgage lenders and brokers in compliance, licensing and corporate matters. He began his career with the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts. Offit Kurman is a member of the Community Home Lenders Association (CHLA). The opinions expressed in Watkinson's article(s) are not necessarily those of Offit Kurman.

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  • Eric Webb is assistant vice president of underwriting for Churchill Mortgage, 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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  • Rick Webster

    Rick Webster is vice president of client strategy at Top of Mind Networks, a Black Knight company. He draws on his experience from a career that has spanned the mortgage, marketing and technology industries to help mortgage lenders fine-tune their marketing and sales-funnel strategies.

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  • Drew Weinstein is a vice president at Parkview Financial, where he manages investor relations and capital-raising efforts. Prior to joining Parkview, Weinstein was with SS&C, where he worked directly with the firm’s middle-market private equity and credit clients, advising them on the capital formation and structuring of new fund launches. Earlier in his career, Weinstein was an associate at SpringTide Capital Management, a New York- and Boston-based venture capital firm, where he concentrated on fundraising for its debut health care IT fund. Reach Weinstein at (310) 996-8999, ext. 126.

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  • Eitan Weinstock

    Eitan Weinstock is the senior defeasance analyst at AST Defeasance and has been with the firm for 13 years, overseeing more than 5,000 transactions totaling over $15 billion in value.

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  • Eric Weisbrot is the chief marketing officer for JW Surety Bonds. He has years of experience in the surety industry working in several different roles within the company and he also is a contributing author to a surety-bond blog.

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  • Paul Wells

    Paul Wells is president of Success Mortgage and Financial Services Co., a Florida mortgage-brokerage company. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the mortgage industry with institutional and private lenders. He is the author of The Secrets of Private Mortgage Lending, published by Prosper Books, which can be purchased at www.ProsperBooks.com.

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  • Danielle Whetstone

    Danielle Whetstone is a senior strategist for C Squared Social, an innovative digital advertising and social media marketing company based in Carlsbad, California. In this role, Whetstone is responsible for enterprise accounts. When not working, she enjoys exploring her home state of Idaho with her family and dog. Learn more about C Squared Social at csquaredsocial.com.

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  • Brian White

    Brian “Woody” White is chief diversity and inclusion officer at Homebridge Financial Services, one of the country’s top private mortgage lenders. In this role, White is building the road map to ensure Homebridge focuses internally on diversity and inclusion while reaching underserved communities. White was previously integral in helping secure $250 million to launch the Regulus Group, the largest remittance-processing company in the U.S. that services Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, UPS, FedEx and other companies. 

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  • Carl White is founder and CEO of Mortgage Marketing Animals, a successful mortgage marketing training program. White is also a branch manager at one of the top mortgage branches in America and the host of the No. 1 podcast for loan officers, LoanOfficerFreedom.com. Mortgage Marketing Animals teaches the strategies that originators in White’s own branch use today to close more loans in less time. Learn more by visiting MortgageMarketingAnimals.com.

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