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Possible [mortgage] needs maximum TH E M R EP O RT | 11 MCROWD his career as a consultant for Accenture after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He went on to serve as an IT Project Manager in a number of industries, including communications and healthcare, before turning to financial services. MICHAEL DANLAG Sutherland Mortgage Services, a division of Sutherland Global Services has announced the hiring of two highly regarded industry executives. Michael Danlag will serve as Global Service Delivery Head of Mortgage Servicing. He joins Sutherland after working at PHH Mortgage as VP of Loan Servicing and Post-Closing. Kim Hoffman, CMB, AMP is the new Global Head of Mortgage Operations. She was most recently COO for Morgan Stanley's residential lending unit. ANTHONY DI STAULO Anthony Di Staulo joins eMortgage Logic (EML), a unit of Assurant Mortgage Solutions, as its new Director of Sales. Di Staulo's focus is to establish new client relationships and foster existing client relationships with mortgage lenders and servicers on a national basis. Prior to joining EML, Di Staulo served as VP of Business Development at Claims Recovery Financial Services, LLC for five years and was AVP of Client Relations at ServiceLink, a Black Knight Company and was Business Development Manager for the Prudential Financial Company of America. CHARLES SZABO StreetLinks Lender Solutions, a unit of Assurant Mortgage Solutions, hired Charles Szabo as VP of Operations and Quality Control. Prior to joining StreetLinks, Szabo served as the Chief Appraiser at USAA Federal Savings Bank for four years, where he launched their appraisal department. StreetLinks also appointed Samir Agarwal as Director of Vendor Administration. Agarwal's focus is to develop, build, and manage an employee arm of StreetLinks' appraiser panel. Prior to joining StreetLinks in the fourth quarter of 2015, Agarwal served as an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase. WARNER MIZELL Assurant Field Asset Services, a unit of Assurant Mortgage Solutions, appointed Warner Mizell as VP of Supply Chain Operations. Mizell's focus is establishing technology-enabled processes and operations that will improve the performance, capabilities and quality of AFAS' vendor network, and overall field services. Mizell is responsible for AFAS' field team, including vendor oversight, recruitment, and supply chain management. Mizell has a lengthy track record of delivering creative field solutions across many industries including real estate. LINDA JACOPETTI Parkside Lending, LLC, a national wholesale and correspondent lender, announces the addition of Linda Jacopetti to support its growing government lending programs. Jacopetti will direct the operations and execution of Parkside's government lending beginning with its current FHA program and the upcoming rollout of VA. Jacopetti brings over 25 years' industry experience to her new position at Parkside. Most recently she ran the government program at Bank of America and prior to that, she spent six years at Countrywide Home Loans growing its government lending channel. Her background includes underwriting, processing, closing, sales, compliance as well as development of new processes and technology solutions and launching new loan programs MICHAEL J. LIMA Mid America Mortgage, Inc., retained mortgage banking and capital markets executive Michael J. Lima as Managing Director of its Whole Loan Trading division. With nearly 30 years' mortgage expertise, Lima will direct Mid America's whole loan acquisition business, including its recent entry into the market for loans with TRID compliance issues. Prior to joining Mid America, Lima served as Chief Risk Officer for Guardian Mortgage Company, where he was responsible for supporting strategic initiatives for the company, including enterprise risk management, capital markets and servicing. NORMAN SCOTT First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation (FGMC), a Virginia Corporation providing residential mortgage lending services for over 25 years, is pleased to announce the addition of warehouse lending sales veteran, Norman Scott as Relationship Manager, Warehouse Lending Division. Scott brings 20 years' mortgage lending industry experience to FGMC. He has served as VP with the warehouse lending divisions of Bear Stearns Lending Group, Countrywide Home Loans, and Jeffries and Company. Most recently, he was the Managing Director for the Residential Mortgage Warehouse Lending Group of Sterling National Bank. DAVID AACH Docutech welcomed David Aach to its management team as the company's EVP. In his role, Aach will initially focus on helping to grow revenues by working closely with Docutech's industry partners and financial services clients and prospects. Aach has worked for International Business Machines Corp., since 2006 as an industry expert in their mortgage practice. Prior to IBM, Aach was COO for mortgage technology provider Palisades Technology Partners, which was acquired by IBM in 2006. Aach has also previously held positions with several of the industry's biggest names including Corillian Corp. (now Fiserv), Harland Financial Solutions, Microbank Software (now SunGard), and CitiMortgage. "While many in the industry will begin looking ahead to the HMDA changes that will be implemented in 2018, the focus will continue to remain on helping lenders master the intricacies of complying with TRID." —David Aach, Docutech LETICIA MIJES Leticia Mijes has been named Multicultural Market Manager for Churchill Mortgage. With more than 20 years' mortgage industry experience, Mijes will lead Churchill Mortgage's national strategy to strengthen communication with multicultural populations, ensuring that the opportunity to realize the American dream of homeownership is equally accessible to prospective borrowers of any group. Leveraging her role as former President of NAHREP's Houston chapter, Mijes establishes and maintains relationships with Realtors, referral partners, and the local communities. Know someone moving up in the industry? email us at Editor@TheMReport.com.