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Linda Du Took the Long Road Through Mortgage Servicing
She helped build the software by first doing the stubborn, regulated work it was meant to replace. Seven years later, Valon has sold the operating company and kept the operating system.
Kim Warnica Makes Complicated Mortgages Legible
After years moving between consumer brands, mortgage lenders and a return engagement at Qualigence, Kim Warnica now has a particularly exacting assignment: explain a cloud-native servicing platform to an industry where clarity carries consequences.
Lisa Mancini-Brzezinski Makes the Mortgage Back Office Worth Talking About
A veteran mortgage communicator joined a young AI company to give old servicing problems a clearer language - and to build the team that could act on it.
Jonathan Chao
Jonathan Chao is the co-founder of Haven, a mortgage servicing technology platform built to engage the 53 million U.S. homeowners with a mortgage. A UC Berkeley applied-math grad who started his career as an actuary, he became one of the earliest employees at Credit Karma, led consumer product at Plaid, then launched Haven in 2020. He served as CEO through the company's $8M Series A before stepping into the Chief Product Officer seat in 2023 to focus on the product he set out to build. He was named a 2024 HousingWire Rising Star.
Andrew Wang
Andrew Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Valon, a New York fintech that rebuilt the plumbing of mortgage servicing from scratch. An engineer-turned-private-credit-investor who left a principal seat at Soros Fund Management, he set out to fix an industry still running on software from the 1960s-80s. Valon became the first new servicer to win Fannie Mae licensing on a proprietary system, now runs tens of billions in mortgages on its platform ValonOS, and raised a $100M Series C in October 2024 led by WestCap with Andreessen Horowitz.