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June 2023 » thefivestar.com 15 June 2023 M O V E R S & S H A K E R S service to the mortgage industry by serving a combined 18 years on the Board of Governors of the MBA of Metropolitan Washington and the Board of Directors of the Virginia Mortgage Bankers Association. For decades, Chip has been a very active member on both the Legislative and Education Committees of these organizations. Chip also served as President of the Virginia Mortgage Bankers Association in 2019. "We are pleased to have Chip leading the Trustar Mortgage team and are excited to continue meeting the needs of the commu- nity," said Shaza Andersen, CEO of Trustar Bank and Trustar Mortgage, LLC. Highly regarded as a top producing mort- gage banker with 40-plus years of mortgage banking sales experience, Chip joins the Trustar Mortgage team from One American Bank, where he led the Mid-Atlantic Region as a Division Manager. "I could not be more excited to be part of such a great opportunity at Trustar Mort- gage," Beveridge added. "Shaza has put together an amazing team and I am thankful to be a part of it." Service Providers RADIAN APPOINTS SUMITA PANDIT SVP AND CFO Radian Group Inc. has named Sumita Pandit as its new SVP and CFO, effective immediately. Pandit succeeds J. Franklin Hall in this role, who served as CFO until December of 2022. Pandit joined Radian in March 2023 as the company's first Chief Growth Officer, working with Radian CEO Rick Thornberry and Radian's executive leadership team to de- velop and execute the company's long-term growth and innovation plans. As CFO, Pandit will retain those strategic and business development duties, while assuming responsibility for all Radian finan- cial functions, including financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, enterprise capital planning, investment portfolio management and other treasury activities, investor relations, and tax. "We are pleased to appoint Sumita as our new Chief Financial Officer," Thorn- berry said. "She brings to the CFO role an exceptional blend of financial markets and investment banking expertise as well as years of experience in strategically growing busi- nesses. In her short time at Radian, Sumita has developed a strong understanding of our businesses and our strategic goals as well as the strength of our capital position including the strategic flexibility it provides to us today and into the future." Pandit has more than two decades of experience in investment banking, advising companies across verticals in fintech, includ- ing payments, financial software, neo-banks, and insurance technology. She joined Radian after serving more than two years as the COO of a global financial technology company dLocal, where she oversaw client manage- ment, marketing, investor relations, and corporate development. Prior to dLocal, Pandit worked at J.P. Morgan in several Managing Director roles, in- cluding as Global Head of FinTech Investment Banking. Before joining J.P. Morgan, Pandit was a VP at Goldman Sachs in their Financial Institutions Group. Pandit earned an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Palmer Scholar. She is currently a board member at donor management company Pushpay. "Radian is a proven industry leader with an excellent team and culture, combined with a very strong financial position, and I am honored and excited to serve as its Chief Financial Officer," Pandit said. "Radian's focus on innovation in the mortgage and real estate services markets positions the com- pany well, and I look forward to helping the company achieve its strategic objectives." JONATHAN NAHIL JOINS FORMFREE AS CTO FormFree has announced that it has brought on Jonathan Nahil as CTO. Nahil possesses more than 20 years of experience as a software architect and leader of development teams at renowned technology organizations. Previously, Nahil worked at Accenture, where he spent more than a decade as Global Head of Architecture for the Mortgage Cadence suite of enterprise loan origination applications. He has also held senior software leadership positions at publicly traded com- panies Twilio and Amazon. "I've helped organizations break the status quo with innovative technologies, and I look forward to helping FormFree do just that with products that enable lenders to support financial inclusion and responsible underwriting," Nahil said. "I am honored to be a part of FormFree's mission to build the next generation of the consumer lending experience and expand credit to those not served by the current model." Immediately before joining FormFree, Nahil was a Software Architect at customer service automation platform Ada. His respon- sibilities included designing software systems, collaborating with senior leadership on strate- gic initiatives and providing technical guidance to the product development teams. "Although we come from different back- grounds and have unique specialties, each member of the FormFree team shares a revo- lutionary spirit—a spirit I recognized in Jona- than Nahil immediately," FormFree Founder and CEO Brent Chandler said. "I can't think of a better person to keep our technology on the leading edge of the mortgage industry's alternative credit revolution." POLLY APPOINTS CHERYL MESSNER CHIEF CUSTOMER OFFICER Polly, a provider of innovative mortgage capital markets technology, has appointed industry veteran Cheryl Messner as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). In her new role as CCO, Messner will spearhead corporate strategies that opera- tionalize and further enhance Polly's unique customer partner experience. Messner will oversee onboarding and implementation, and champion cross-functional initia- tives that drive ongoing value and success throughout the customer lifecycle. She will also act as a liaison between client, product development, and technical teams to provide customer insight into high-impact features and new functionality. "In addition to a unique blend of inter-