Several executive appointments have recently been made in the field of real estate finance, and some involve senior positions.
Glenn Brunker has been named to lead BOK Financial Mortgage, a
July 1 announcement from Tulsa, Oklahoma-based BOK Financial said.
Brunker, who replaces Ben Cowen, was recruited from Fifth Third Bank, where he had worked since January 2014. His last position there was senior vice president.
Brunker’s nearly three decades in the business
also included time at National City Bank and NovaStar Financial.
BOK Financial reports
$2.399 billion in mortgage originations for last year. Included in the production total was $1.97 billion in correspondent acquisitions, up 60 percent from 2013. Also included in the 2014 total was $0.429 billion in business from HomeDirect Mortgage, which has closed $0.496 billion during the the first five months of 2015. BOK’s servicing portfolio was 128,000 loans for $18.7 billion as of May 31.
The former chief executive officer of Lenders One, Jeff McGuiness,
has been hired as chief sales officer at Embrace Home Loans, a June 25 statement said. In his new role, McGuiness has responsibility for the retail, consumer-direct and bank-fulfillment production channels.
McGuiness
notes on his LinkedIn profile that he worked at CitiMortgage Inc. from June 1998 until November 2005, and he has since held jobs at American Home Mortgage and Aurora Bank FSB.
The new district manager for Guild Mortgage Co. in Western Washington is Gina Durosko, a news release Monday said. From Bellevue, Durosko will oversee 26 locations. She originally started at the San Diego-based firm in 2009, though she worked at other mortgage firms during the interim.
Late last month, Guild reported that Cindy Flynn was named operations manager of California’s inland region. With three decades’ experience, including her most recent job at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Flynn will
work from Sacramento.
A recent announcement from Carrington Mortgage Services LLC said Tom O’Leary was appointed regional sales manager.
The 15-year veteran has spent time at a variety of subprime institutions including AIG’s Wilmington Finance, Fremont Investment and Loan and Associates First Capital.
“O’Leary possesses the experience and dedication necessary to ensure the most efficient delivery of products and services to Carrington’s clients,” the statement said. “O’Leary’s proven success in retail and wholesale residential mortgage origination, real estate, consumer finance, and the commercial loan origination industry, provides Carrington with the leadership and sales management experience necessary to drive the regional sales force for the wholesale group.”
Irving, Texas-based Caliber Home Loans Inc. said last month that Chris Ledlie was promoted to regional vice president of Greater Los Angeles, including Santa Barbara.
Ledlie’s 13-year career includes stints at
various Bank of America Corp. entities. He’ll work from an office in Manhattan Beach, California.
Also in June, Caliber disclosed that the new regional builder vice president of the southeast division is Kelly Allison.
With 18 years in the business, Allison has been on the payrolls of Academy Mortgage, Countrywide Mortgage and Opteum Financial Services, according to her LinkedIn profile.
In St. Louis, Jerry Frost and George DeMare have both been named regional vice presidents at GSF Mortgage. The pair were formerly of Midwest Mortgage Capital since May 2001, with Frost acting as president and co-founder, and
DeMare serving as managing partner. Both also spent time together at CreveCor Mortgage.
Adam Luwisch has joined the commercial real estate lender Hunt Mortgage Group. Luwisch is an associate in the proprietary loan group that does balance sheet lending.
