Authors List

Authors

  • David Brooks is founder and CEO of Cirrus, a fintech provider of cloud-based document management software. With 20 years of broad financial-services industry experience, Brooks has held various positions with BB&T, Deloitte, Citigroup Global Markets, Merrill Lynch and Volvo Commercial Finance, both in the U.S. and abroad. He has led numerous IT-related projects during this time, including workflow redesign, adoption of customer relationship management systems and the creation of BB&T’s federally assisted bank-merger model. Brooks graduated from Wake Forest University with a dual degree in business and German, and he holds a master’s degree from Oxford University. For more information about Cirrus, visit cirrussecure.com.

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  • Ray Brousseau

    Ray Brousseau is president of Carrington Mortgage Services LLC. He oversees all aspects of Carrington’s lending and servicing divisions, as well as servicing operations. Under his leadership, Carrington’s full-service mortgage-lending business with wholesale, retail, and centralized sales and operations has experienced unprecedented growth and operational results. Brousseau has nearly 30 years of experience in the mortgage-banking and consumer-finance industry, including more than 24 years with CitiGroup’s consumer-finance business.

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  • Kelcey Brown

    Kelcey T. Brown is chief strategy officer and executive vice president of WebMax LLC. Brown is responsible for developing, communicating, executing and sustaining strategic initiatives. He acts as a key adviser to the company’s president on critical changes in the competitive landscape, internal employee development and the external business environment. Brown has more than a decade of experience in the real estate and mortgage-technology industry. 

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  • Tyler Brown serves as alliance manager for Equifax Workforce Solutions. He has more than 13 years of experience in the mortgage industry. He works closely with mortgage lenders, regulators and other industry stakeholders to bring forth mutually beneficial data-driven solutions, fueling the opportunity for American consumers to better their financial lives. His efforts have helped to broaden homeownership opportunities by showing lenders the value of income and employment verifications, even in a volatile market.

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  • Lawrence S. Brown

    Lawrence S. Brown is the CEO of Evergreen Private Finance and has more than 20 years of experience in growing highly successful specialty finance and investment companies. He also has acquired, managed and sold real estate in the Washington, D.C., metro area. He is a venture-capital investor and a limited member of Centripetal Capital. As a noted entrepreneur, he has structured and financed more $2 billion in loan products across multiple asset classes.

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  • Jody Bruns is the founder and president of the Divorce Lending Association, with over 35 years of experience in the mortgage and finance industry. As the creator of both the Certified Divorce Lending Professional and the Real Estate Mediation Specialist (REM-S) designations, she is a certified mediator and continuing legal education provider. Bruns is dedicated to bridging the gap between divorce law and mortgage lending, helping divorcing homeowners make informed financial decisions and training professionals in this specialized niche.

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  • Jan Brzeski

    Jan B. Brzeski is managing director and chief investment officer of Arixa Capital Advisors LLC and Crosswind Financial, both based in Los Angeles. He manages funds dedicated to making loans to real estate developers on single-family homes and small urban multiunit residential and mixed-use developments. His business was built from the ground up to meet the specific needs of these developers and their brokers. 

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  • Terri Buckman

    Terri Buckman is senior vice president of the national wholesale and non-delegated correspondent division of Finance of America Mortgage LLC. Helping small-business owners in the mortgage industry establish successful business models to better serve their communities has been a focus and a passion for Buckman for over 19 years.

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  • Ben Buckwalter

    Ben Buckwalter is an award-winning sales strategist and co-founder of Loan Pro Nation, helping mortgage professionals close more deals with less effort in record time. Buckwalter has trained hundreds of loan officers, and his team turned $2 million-plus in ads into more than 100,000 leads and millions of dollars in closed loans last year alone.

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  • Paul Buege

    Paul Buege is president and chief operating officer of Pewaukee, Wisconsin-based Inlanta Mortgage, a mortgage lender licensed in 27 states that is actively seeking new loan professionals. Buege has more than 35 years of experience in the mortgage business, and is an expert in recruitment, business development and growing sales. Under his leadership, Inlanta Mortgage has received numerous awards and accolades, including being recognized multiple times as a top workplace in the mortgage industry.

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  • Pierre Buhler is a managing director at SSA & Company, where he brings over two decades of experience working at the intersection of banking and technology. Previously, he was founder of CKM Analytix, an operations intelligence provider. Buhler also worked as head of financial services at AlixPartners and launched Mitchell Madison Group. Earlier, he was head of procurement and corporate services with Chase Manhattan Bank, and a private equity manager at Charterhouse London.

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  • Lukas Bull is a credit analyst with Prime Commercial Lending, located in Albany, New York. He works with an ever-growing network of brokers to advise and facilitate the transaction of permanent commercial mortgages ranging from $100,000 to $5 million, with unique programs for both investors and business owners.

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