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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.
Jennifer Stanley Makes the Complicated Business of Digital Mortgages Understandable
Her career began around talent and famous consumer brands. At DocMagic, she applies the same instinct for loyalty and story to the exacting machinery of eClosings, compliance and mortgage documents.
Partha Dutta Markets Mortgage Tech With an Unfashionable Advantage: Gratitude
After more than 14 years at Nexval, the vice president writes about gratitude, recruits deep mortgage-platform talent and keeps asking a useful question: how can AI improve the experience without erasing the people inside it?
Sara Holtz Is Teaching Mortgage Marketing to Think Before It Speeds Up
After two decades in marketing, Sara Holtz has traded the reflex to have every answer for a harder discipline: creating clarity. Her playbook for mortgage technology begins with purpose, invites iteration and leaves room for people to think.
Rishi Choudhary Is Teaching AI to Pick Up the Phone
A missed call inside Redfin's mortgage marketplace became a company. Now the former product manager is building AI agents for the slow, regulated work that begins after a borrower says hello.
Harish Tejwani Is Building the Operating System Behind the Mortgage Broker
His wager is simple: the independent mortgage broker should not need a small orchestra of tabs to close one loan. ARIVE turns that frustration into a product strategy - and the broker community into its product team.
Keith Kelly Has Spent Nearly 18 Years Turning the Refinance Into a Button
The FINOFR co-founder has carried one stubborn idea through a patent, two rebrands and several interest-rate cycles: a loan should be able to adapt without making its borrower start over.
Duane Andrews Built a Property Data Company the Slow Way - Then Chose a Faster Second Act
An accounting student learned to stand out, a property operator learned to code around paper, and a patient founder learned when outside capital could widen the map.
Mark Schacknies Keeps Building the Same Machine - Only Faster
Across property booms, platform pivots and two exits, the NFTYDoor co-founder has kept returning to one stubborn question: why does moving money through real estate still require so much friction? His answer is equal parts software, distribution and knowing exactly whom the product must serve.
Martin Aubut Has Spent 25 Years Making Big Companies Move Faster
From beauty counters to broadband to mortgages, Martin Aubut has built a career around one stubborn question: how do you make an established business behave with the urgency of a startup?
Sarah DeCiantis Built a Marketing Agency Inside a Mortgage Machine
Her job is bigger than selling a lender. Inside UWM, Sarah DeCiantis built a 50-person in-house agency around a sharper idea: make thousands of independent brokers better marketers.
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.
Mike Yu
Mike Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Vesta, a San Francisco-based startup building an AI-driven, cloud-native loan origination system (LOS) for the mortgage industry. A Stanford-trained product strategist who cut his teeth at Blend - where he helped land the Wells Fargo partnership and became the company's first licensed insurance agent - Yu launched Vesta in November 2020 after recognizing that mortgage infrastructure hadn't fundamentally changed since the 1990s. He has raised $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, and Conversion Capital, and was named a 2024 HousingWire Vanguard and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.