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May 2023 » thefivestar.com 17 May 2023 E X P O S U R E 2023 Five Star Government Forum On April 11, a gathering of mortgage servicing executives and govern- ment officials gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for the thirteenth annual Government Forum. The 2023 Forum opened with a keynote presentation from Assistant Secretary for the Office of Housing and the Federal Housing Commissioner, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Julia Gordon, as she discussed FHA's challenges and priorities for 2023. From there, the event lineup included an Economic Update featuring experts from Auction.com, CoreLogic, Fannie Mae, First American Financial Corporation, LendingTree, and Redfin, as well as broad-ranging panels including panelists from Carrington Mortgage Services, Chase Home Lending, Churchill Mortgage, the Consumer Finan- cial Protection Bureau, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Freddie Mac, Freedom Mortgage, Ginnie Mae, Ocwen Financial, Servbank, and U.S. Bank. Five Star's Government Forum was sponsored by Host Sponsor Auc- tion.com; Co-Hosts Brookstone Management and Safeguard Properties; Corporate sponsors Guardian Asset Management and Selene Finance; and Supporting sponsors National General Lender Services and SitusAMC. 1. Five Star Global Chairman Emeritus Ed Delgado speaks with FHA's Julia Gordon after her opening keynote. 2. The Economic Update panel, featuring Daren Blomquist, VP of Market Economics, Auction. com; Molly Boesel, Principal Economist, CoreLogic; Jacob Channel, Senior Economist, LendingTree; Mark Fleming, SVP, Decision Science and Chief Economist, First American Financial Corporation; Taylor Marr, Deputy Chief Economist, Redfin; and Mark Palim, VP and Deputy Chief Economist, Fannie Mae. 3. Auction.com President Ali Haralson presents a charity donation to Margi Kirst, Chief Revenue Officer of Operation Homefront. 4. Douglas Whittemore, Head of Default Servicing for US Bank, moderates the "State of the Housing Market" panel, featuring Matt Clarke, CFO & COO, Churchill Mortgage; Leslie Meaux Pordzik, SVP for the Office of Issuer and Portfolio Management, Ginnie Mae; Erik Schmitt, Managing Director, Product and Innovation, Chase Home Lending; and Stanley C. Middleman, President and CEO, Freedom Mortgage Corporation. 5. Tim Rood, Head of Government & Industry Relations for SitusAMC, moderates the Government Policy & Housing Update, featuring Mark McArdle, Assistant Director, Mortgage Markets, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Prasant Sar, Head of Servicing Policy and Asset Management, Federal Housing Finance Agency. 6. Patrick Coon, Servicing Executive and NMSA Executive Council, moderates the GSE Update, featuring Benjamin Gottheim, VP, Servicing Policy, Single-Family Servicing, Freddie Mac; Jenise Hight, VP, Single-Family Credit Risk Policy, Fannie Mae; William J. Maguire, VP of Servicing Portfolio Management, Single-Family Division, Freddie Mac; Jake Williamson, SVP, Single-Family, Head of Collateral Risk Management, Fannie Mae. 1. 2 3 4 5 6