Wells Fargo Home Lending has announced that Sandra Ho will join as head of sales. In this newly created role, Ho will lead Wells Fargo’s Consumer Direct and Distributed Sales organizations; previously, the divisions had been under separate leadership. She joins Wells Fargo from JPMorgan Chase, where she held a number of leadership positions in the firm’s Home Lending and Consumer and Small Business Payments divisions over the last six years. Most recently, she served as managing director in the Consumer and Small Business Payments division. Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Sandra held positions at Innovatus Capital Partners, McKinsey & Company, Promontory Financial Group Australasia and Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation has announced the promotion of Carrie Guarrero to the role of president of Fairway’s coaching platform, Fairway Ignite. Her association with Fairway began in 2015, where she was a founding executive teammate for Fairway Ignite.

Certainty Home Lending, a Guaranteed Rate Company, has announced the appointment of Shadi Kamran as its new national business development executive. Kamran, who brings 20 years of lending experience, is based out of Los Angeles.

Planet Home Lending has hired Bill Shuler as executive vice president, chief information officer. Before joining Planet, Shuler was president of WPS Advisors, LLC. Previously, he was the executive managing director and CIO at Home Point Financial. Shuler has also had CIO leadership roles at GMAC Mortgage/GMAC ResCap, National City Mortgage, and Homeward Residential, Inc., where he also served as chief administrative officer and chairman of their offshore captive in Pune, India.

First Home Mortgage has announced the appointment of Tim Whittier as its new president. Whittier, who has been with First Home Mortgage since 2009, began his mortgage banking career in 1992.

Fidelity National Financial (FNF) has announced that chief digital officer Jason Nadeau will take on an expanded executive role as chief artificial intelligence officer. Nadeau joined FNF in 2018.

Floify has announced the appointment of Jason Mapes as head of sales. Mapes previously served as director of sales for nCino’s Mortgage Suite. Mapes’s 23 years of experience in the mortgage industry include roles in loan origination, branch management and sales at various organizations, including nCino, Ellie Mae (now ICE Mortgage Technology), Unify and Lenders One.