Mortgage Tech Summit 2012 - Scottsdale, AZ: Directory

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Luke is the Director of PPC at Dream Systems Media - a trend setting Internet marketing firm with locations in Utah and Arizona. He graduated from Brigham Young University - Idaho with a degree in Business Management and an emphasis in marketing. He was president of the American Marketing Society's BYU-I chapter.

Luke has worked with clients in many verticals including financial, travel, real estate, legal, healthcare, and best of all, chocolate. In addition to his experience in the verticals mentioned, Luke has also specifically worked with a national leader in mortgage lending for sever… Read more

Location Pleasant Grove, Utah

Ginger Bell

Jason Berman

Mortgage Loan Officer for Colorado Lending at JBerman Group, Uptown Mortgage; Event Host - Mortgage Tech Summit

Company JB Group
Position Owner
Location Summit County, Colorado

Jim Buchanan

Ted Canto

A dedicated student to this curriculum called "LIFE". I am passionate about life and everything I do. I love to learn, I love to play, I love to dance, I love my family, I love my girls, I love! I have been called "brash" but I'm not. I am caring, sometimes to a fault. I love greatness so I look for the greatness in others so that we can be great together and spread it around. I am definitely misunderstood. I wear my heart on my sleeve and as a result, people tend to think that there is an agenda to their own fault. I've been on a journey called ME and I have found how amazing it is… Read more

Location Gilbert, Arizona

Ted Canto

Ted Canto has originated home loans for the past 13+ years and has branded himself as a nationally recognized mortgage advisor, real estate commentator, speaker and internet marketing instructor. Ted is the brain child behind ActiveRain.com’s RainCamp seminar and has instructed and helped hundreds of agents learn and effectively use the internet by “being the answer to the question”.

Fernando Caraballo

Doug Carpenter

Elliot Cohen

Pam Cohen

Nichole Patrice Curtis

Charles Davis

Karen Deis

linda sawaya design

i love painting, writing, cooking, gardening, photography and more. My Lebanese family cookbook: Alice's Kitchen: Traditional Lebanese Cooking is popular with Lebanese and people from all over the world. It is a word of mouth book, the latest edition was introduced at Wordstock in 2005 with an appearance by my beloved mother, Alice, who passed away at 96 in 2006. She taught me to live with passion, doing art, gardening, and cooking with love. My cookbook carries on the tradition and mama's message on cooking and art and anything i do. She said"Dear, if you make it with love, it will be delicio… Read more

Company linda sawaya design (artist and writer)
Location portland, oregon

Paul Dunn

Paul is an originator with Sunstreet Mortgage in Tucson Arizona who takes a Webernet Experimentalist approach to originating. He has been originating since '91 and has developed his business model around generating all his loans online.

Paul has focused on combining old fashioned direct marketing with the world of SEO in order to build a solid consistent online business. The online world can help you work less and play more.

Derek Egeberg

Derek Egeberg originates mortgage loans from Yuma, AZ and has built a business around helping homeowners understand the "New Rules of Equity Management". This along with exceptional service and a personal touch have enabled him to market himself uniquely to homeowners & real estate agents as "The Approval Coach".

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Management from the University of Phoenix in which he graduated Cum Laude. He has over 9 years of experience in mortgage lending as both a mortgage broker and a mortgage banker. His wife Sheri and he are the proud parents of 3 boys.

Kara Eiseman

Mikel Erdman

Todd Finnin

Ryan Floyd

Ryan is a founding general partner of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Ryan focuses on enterprise IT and web opportunities. He has primarily invested in SaaS (Crowd Factory / Acquired by Marketo, BlackStratus), mobile (Appcelerator) and cloud/internet related investments (Hubpages, Kidaro/Acquired by Microsoft, MetaCloud, Spalshtop and XDN). He has also invested in semiconductors/components as well (SandForce /Acquired by LSI and Ignis Optics /Acquired by Bookham).

Prior to founding Storm Ventures, Ryan directed the business development activities at E-TEK Dynamics where he focused on bui… Read more

Company Storm Ventures
Position Managing Director
Location Menlo Park CA

Dan Francis

Calvin Gale

Greg Gale

Patrick Giannetti

John Glynn

John is a full time originator in Oakland, CA. Caught particularly vulnerable when the 2007 ‘mortgage meltdown’ hit, he committed to a complete business reboot. Three years into his second run in the business, in 2010 he enjoyed personal records in both production and revenue. He attributes the recent success to his willingness to explore and adopt new technology, a vehement appetite for knowledge, and a renewed commitment to some of the business basics – not to mention a little dose of humility and a lot of hard work.

Position Real Estate Finance
Location Oakland CA

Dan Green

Dan Green is a loan officer and author of the premier mortgage blog in the country, The Mortgage Reports. Dan's mortgage market commentary appears in the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, HSH Associates, and on Bankrate.com. He is a regular guest on the First Business television program and has appeared on NPR. In 2006, Dan founded Bring the Blog, a blog-for-you service for real estate and mortgage professionals. In 2010, he founded Rate Quote Widget, a free, lead-generating WordPress plugin for loan officers.

dan green

Mark Green

Mark Green is the President of Top of Mind Networks, a company specializing in helping mortgage and real estate professionals drive repeat and referral business through CRM (customer relationship management) techniques. He is married & went to the University of Florida.

Stacey Harmon

Stacey Harmon is Principal of Harmon Enterprises, a consultancy dedicated to helping real estate professionals be effective by going digital with their marketing and business processes. An engaging, energetic, and respected speaker, Stacey is an N.A.R. REALTOR® University trainer and presents at brokerages, associations and events across the country. Stacey is Evernote’s GTD Ambassador and is passionate about showing busy professionals how to achieve a paperless lifestyle. She is also a Facebook expert and the author of Facebook Page Marketing: Content Strategies for Real Estate. Stacey is … Read more

Company Harmon Enterprises & Evernote GTD Ambassador
Position Principal
Location Orange County, CA

Joe Harvey

In seventeen year as a Mortgage Professional many things have changed. However, many have remained the same. Today’s exhaustive documentation and underwriting requirements (which are only short of a full cavity search) required of loan applicants since the “Mortgage Meltdown” & Bursting of “The Housing Bubble” are essentially the same requirements when I began my mortgage career in 1995. Overtime technology has improved the speed of mortgage application and approval process (in 1995 it took up to a week to obtain a credit report) , but all in all the loan application/approval p… Read more

Shane Hollenback

Shane Hollenback has been a loan officer for over 11 years and currently works for Academy Mortgage in Phoenix, Arizona. Shane is considered a social media pioneer in the Mortgage space and does zero “traditional” marketing for clients. He uses social networking platforms, to meet and engage with real estate agents, and consumers which has allowed him to build a thriving business in a down market. Shane also organizes and participates in Real Estate Bar Camps, Tweet Ups, Ignite Phoenix, and other social media events throughout Arizona. He enjoys the occasional fine cigar accompanied by…

Gabriel Johnson

William Halfrich Jr

Location Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mitchell Karren

Jonas Kruckeberg

Jonas Kruckeberg is the National Account Executive for Top of Mind Networks, a powerful, scalable, sercure web based marketing and CRM platform. Jonas has originated loans for the past 8 years in California. He was a client of Surefire prior to coming on board with TOM and continues to use the system to automate his origination workflow.

Location Fallbrook, California

David Krushinsky

David Krushinsky has originated mortgages in Scottsdale, AZ since 2002. Early on, David realized the value of business relationships and referrals and built his business around serving real estate agents. In 2007 when the real estate boom ended in Arizona, David realized his top producing agent was receiving all of his business through online marketing efforts. It was at that point that David’s philosophy toward technology shifted.

Today, he is a certified instructor teaching the same principles that helped him create success for his own business. David has taught continuing education…

Location Phoenix, Arizona

Jana Lane

Deborah Lapierre

Richie Laser

Steven Lines

Steve Lines

Branch Manager for Academy Mortgage in Scottsdale, AZ and Mesa, AZ.

I have been involved in real estate finance since 1996. I worked through college as a Spanish-speaking loan officer. Upon graduation I began working as an auditor for Ernst & Young, one of the “Big 4″ accounting firms until I left to continue originating loans.

I am also an instructor at the Arizona School of Real Estate and I routinely teach Mortgage Loan Originator licensing classes, Mortgage Broker licensing classes and Real Estate Agent continued education classes. My areas of emphasis are social media marketing and com…

Danny Loschiavo

Danny is a co-founder of LeadMagnit, a lead generation software for realtors & mortgage originators.

Alberto Madrid

Mark Madsen

The Las Vegas housing market officially collapsed on Feb. 14, 2007, and all but one of Mark Madsen's real estate partners disappeared within months of that Valentine's Day Massacre.

With eight years wasted in the back-breaking, 24/7 lifestyle of building a mortgage business based on agent referral relationships, Mark started fresh with a new focus on communicating directly with home buyers online.

Five years later, Mark has over 700 real estate and mortgage sites, a new real estate company with a successful property management division and 21 agents that depend on his Internet marketing / …

Justin McHood

Justin works on various lead generation projects and manages to find time to play with new ideas on the web. In Arizona, he works for Academy Mortgage doing whatever they ask. The thing he likes most about the web is how he doesn't have to get a job that requires him to wear pants every day.

Geof McLaughlin

Geof McLaughlin is a Mortgage Rockstar and has the URL to prove it (www.MortgageRockstar.com).

Geof is a top loan originator at one of the country's largest independent mortgage companies, Mortgage Master, Inc. He enjoys the freedom of being a virtual loan originator generating business solely from referrals and a significant online presence without being tied to an office or delivering donuts to Realtors.

Outside of work, Geof’s real passion is cars. He has been fortunate enough to own several exotic automobiles and raced on an amateur basis in the past on both 2 and 4 wheels.… Read more

Company Mortgage Master, Inc.
Position Mortgage Rockstar ;-)
Location Walpole, MA

Shane McNamee

Jon Miller

Ryan Minick

Ryan is a licensed mortgage originator as one of The 2 Mortgage Guys. His team has built a business around REALTOR referral purchases. They consistently rank as the top origination team in their company. Ryan is also the co-owner of Loan Elerts, a web based application designed to help Loan Originators communicate during the loan process. Ryan has taught marketing strategies with The Mortgage Marketing Animals and has been featured as the mortgage expert through a weekly video series published on AOL. Ryan's passion is outside the box marketing and lead generation.

Company LeaderOne Financial Corporation
Position Assistant Vice President
Location Kokomo, Indiana

Chris Mitchell

Mike Mueller

Mike is a former Mortgage Banker and Broker turned "Tech Geek" who specializes in Social Media. He builds engaging Custom Facebook Business Pages and WordPress blogs for real estate professionals.

Mike writes AreWeConnected.com, a blog dealing with social media and technology as it pertains to real estate. He publishes articles in the San Francisco Examiner and the BusinessWeek Exchange.

AreWeConnected is listed in Alltop and ranked by AdAge. He has been interviewed and quoted in articles for Bankrate, Scripps, the San Jose Mercury News, and others (including the front page of the Wall St J…

Erik Nelson

Erik is a co-founder of LeadMagnit, a lead generation software for realtors. He also enjoys Pat Benatar cover bands.

Erik Nelson

Leslie Nilsen

Dean Ouellette

Dean Ouellette is the VP of Business Development and technology at Thompson's Realty as well as a Phoenix area Realtor. Dean is obsessed with tweaking systems to create more time in his day for one objective, so he can have a life.

Dean is currently writing a book Evernote for Real Estate which should be out by the time this conference starts. One of his recent projects is the Productive Dad Blog where he ponders everything from applications that link his Android phone, iPad and computer ... to hacking his exercise and diet routines.

Dean is always experimenting with ideas to free up t… Read more

Rhonda Porter

Rhonda is a licensed mortgage originator at Mortgage Master Service Corporation and began blogging in 2006. Her blog, The Mortgage Porter, has evolved into becoming her primary source of new business for her mortgage practice in Washington State. She has been interviewed by NPR, Associated Press, MSN Real Estate, and the Seattle Times/PI. She has presented at USC, RE BlogWorld and the SKCAR and has helped plan the last several Seattle RE BarCamps. Last but not least, she's a previous speaker at Mortgage Tech Summit in Denver and Scottsdale.

NMLS MLO-121324

Company Mortgage Master Service Corporation
Position Licensed Mortgage Originator MLO 121324
Location Seattle, Washington

Rhonda Porter

Rhonda began blogging in 2006 because she wanted to correct misinformation being reported by the local evening news regarding the mortgage industry. She had no idea that her blog, The Mortgage Porter, would evolve into becoming her primary source of new business for her mortgage practice in Washington State. She has been interviewed by NPR, Associated Press, MSN Real Estate, and the Seattle Times/PI. She has presented at USC, RE BlogWorld and the SKCAR and has helped plan the last several Seattle RE BarCamps.

Company Rhonda Porter: The Mortgage Porter
Location West Seattle, Washington

Jocelyn Predovich

Jocelyn Predovich, founder and CEO of Limetree Lending Group, has built a company in 8 years that is consistently ranked #1 amongst all the mortgage bankers under the Universal Lending Corporation umbrella.

With a focus on education, Jocelyn has positioned herself as a unique marketeer by delivering mortgage information in a refreshing new way. Her weekly video emails; broadcast to thousands of real estate agents, past customers, & fellow lenders has enabled her to build her mortgage practice sustained by a constant stream of referral business. By delivering industry news, niche loan p…

David Rider

Just a fun loving guy in a great relationship living my life

Company CMG Financial
Location Phoenix, Arizona

Bill Risser

VP/Director, New Media & Education for Chicago Title Arizona. Bill has over 12 years in the industry and has conducted hundreds of hands on workshops to help real estate professionals understand new media networks. Married, with a son at ASU (Go Devils!), Bill admits he has a Barbra Streisand problem. Ask him.

David Robnett

Ellicia Romo

Shar Rundio

Bob Rutledge

Jonathan Satterfield

Scott Schang

As a Branch Manager of Broadview Mortgage in Orange, CA Scott’s approach to the business has been to identify and develop niche opportunities within specific demographics of home buyers making buying decisions online. He developed www.FindMyWayHome.com using WordPress as a central content management system and a blog that receives over 13k unique visits a month from Google searches. Scott’s mission and message to other industry professionals is to Educate and Empower Homeowners.

Company Broadview Mortgage Corporation
Position Branch Manager
Location Orange, California

Shashank Shekhar

Shashank is an active Loan Originator with Arcus Lending. He has written two books, "Real Estate Unleashed" and "First Time Home Buying 101" and actively blogs at Lending Expert Blog and Homes.com. Shashank has spoken at Virtual RE Bar Camp and Mortgage Revolution and been featured on Y! News, Pen TV, KCBS Radio, SF Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. Shashank was also recently listed in the "Top 40 under 40 most influential mortgage professionals in the country" by NMP Magazine.

Location San Jose, California

David Smith

Wordpress geek and photo buff living in Tucson, AZ. Blogger & Photographer. Designing and building online marketing solutions for small business which create a better custom experience.

Scott Smith

Eric Stegemann

Having started in real estate at just 19 years of age, I've always had passion for an industry that rewards hard work. Today I spend my time helping Mortgage professionals, Brokers, and Realtors learn how to better engage with prospects and clients.

Company TRIBUS
Position Director of Strategy
Location Irvine, CA

Mae Suppes

Tim Swierczek

Tim Swierczek (pronounced: swer-zic) is an active originator with iLoan, a Minnesota-based Mortgage company. A business-development and origination expert, Tim has owned his own brokerage and has served the mortgage industry for over nine years. He served on the board of directors of the Minnesota Mortgage Association (MMA) for 4 years where he served as the 2010-2011 President.

Tim is a self-professed mortgage geek, who is known for his knowledge of mortgage guidelines, ability to handle complex income, and customer situations. Swierczek was named to the Minneapolis/St Paul Magazine 2011 Sup…

Company iLoan
Position Mortgage Loan Officer
Location Saint Paul, MN

Jay Thompson

I am a father, husband, real estate broker. co-owner of Thompson's Realty and generally nice guy. And I have a little blogging problem.

Realtor and real estate blogger in Phoenix, Arizona.
Broker / Owner - Thompson's Realty

On March 26, I took a position with Zillow as their Director of Industry Outreach & Social Media.

Location Gilbert, Arizona

Jay Thompson

Formerly the Designated Broker of Thompson's Realty in Phoenix. Currently Zillow's Director of Industry Outreach & Social Media. I'm a social media fanboy, an avid blogger, and a die hard University of Texas fan.

Company Zillow
Location Seattle, Washington

Donna Timmerman

Andrew Vierra

VA and anything having to do with Veteran home loans...that's where it's at for me. FHA and Conventional are the staples of my practice, but with lots of effort, the swing is moving to the Veteran.

A frustrated pilot, I'm hoping to take to the skys again this spring...

...and hoping to sponge a lot of great knowledge from MTS this year.

Company WealthWise Mortgage Planning
Position Branch Manager
Location Folsom, CA