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Peter Wright is co-founder of Rock the Score, a St. Louis-based rental-reporting agency. Rock the Score provides up to two years of rent-payment history and ongoing reporting to TransUnion and Equifax. Reach Wright at (314) 753-7155 or pwright@rockthescore.com.
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Erik Wrobel is head of product of Blend, a digital lending platform transforming the $40 trillion-plus consumer lending industry. His team leads the way in defining innovative and engaging products that provide easy, one-tap access to financial resources. Prior to joining Blend in 2019, Wrobel held positions as chief product officer at Evernote and as vice president of product management at VMware. Learn more about his company at blend.com.
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Joe Wu is CEO of Voicent, which offers cloud-based tools to connect and engage with customers. Voicent’s cloud solution, Voicent Live, has all the tools necessary to achieve peak performance and efficiency — call center tools, predictive dialers, voice broadcasters, text and e-mail tools, built-in CRM, easy workflow and business-process automation — all in one flexible, scalable, seamlessly integrated package.
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Natalie Yanez serves as the credit union relationship manager for Extensia Financial LLC. She has spent more than a decade working in the credit union movement and is a certified credit union development educator. She enjoys building relationships and working with others toward a common goal, both professionally and personally. Yanez holds a bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University and a master’s in business administration from California State University, Channel Islands.
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E.J. Yerzak is director of cyber IT services at Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), which helps financial firms move from a tactical to a strategic approach in meeting regulatory requirements while optimizing compliance data, operations and technology. Yerzak assists investment advisers in managing cyber-security risk through testing and risk assessments. As a cybersecurity expert, he has authored numerous articles on emerging technology issues.
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Darin Young is president and CEO of Popular Commercial Lending Group, a Salt Lake City-based commercial and agricultural mortgage banker and correspondent lender/servicer. Young has been in that role since 2008 and has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Brigham Young University. He has 27 years of finance experience, including management experience with Norwest/Wells Fargo and as an original founder with First Option Mortgage.
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Matt Young is senior vice president of sales for Genworth Mortgage Insurance, where he leads the company’s sales team and is responsible for strategic and regional accounts, sales-force effectiveness, sales training and Genworth’s ActionCenter. Prior to joining Genworth in July 2012, Young led regional sales teams as vice president of sales at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. The statements provided are the opinions of Young and do not reflect the views of Genworth or its management.
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View all postsNancy Zafrani is the general manager of Oz Moving & Storage, with 30 years in the industry and a lifetime of knowledge as a New Yorker. She helped grow the company from three employees to 200 with 50 trucks and locations across the U.S. Her experience and organizational skills have led to over 500,000 successful moves. She is proud to lead a company that provides the best possible moving experience.
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View all postsAli Zane is the CEO of Imax Credit Repair Firm. He a is credit repair and identity theft expert, a UC Berkeley alumni and former mortgage bank director. Since 2004, he’s helped mortgage originators fund more deals by helping them increase their borrowers’ credit scores. Hundreds of mortgage lenders have taken his FICO Score Certification class.
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Joe Zeibert is a vice president and head of mortgage product and strategy at Nomis Solutions, an industry-leading pricing and profitability management solutions provider that helps to build better pricing for bankers and lenders. For more information about the company, visit nomissolutions.com.
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Igor Zhizhin is president of American Street Capital LLC, a national mortgage-banking company with institutional correspondent relationships specializing in stabilized- and bridge-debt placement for multifamily, owner-occupied and investment properties. American Street Capital is nationally recognized for its industry-leading production volume and customer service for small-balance loan requests.
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View all postsNate Zielinski is the business development coordinator at RCN Capital, a nationwide private direct lender. Zielinski joined RCN Capital in 2020 and aims to develop long-lasting business relationships with brokers and borrowers, as well as to maintain the company’s existing relationships. Zielinski’s prior work experience includes sales, advertising, copywriting and social media. He graduated in 2015 from the University of Connecticut with a journalism degree and a related area of study in communications while working at the school newspaper and radio station.