MBA Annual Speaker Lineup
Check out the lineup of expert speakers scheduled to be in Las Vegas for MBA Annual25.
Brooke Anderson-Tompkins
Founder, CEO
Bridge AIvisory
Shayna Arrington
Chief Risk Officer
Servbank
OneRepublic Band
Grammy-nominated performers
Chetan (Che) Bhatia
Managing Director of Cyber Resilience
Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company
Kevin Bowen
Managing Director
Chase Home Lending
Parker Brissette
vCISO/Senior Cybersecurity Advisor
Richey May
Robert D. Broeksmit, CMB
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mortgage Bankers Association
Christine Chandler
2026 MBA Chair; Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer & Chief Operating Officer
M&T Realty Capital Corporation
Amber Christman
Director – Scores, Mortgage and Capital Markets
FICO
Gary Cohn
Vice Chairman, IBM;
Director, White House National Economic Council (2017-2018);
President & COO, Goldman Sachs (2006-2016)
John Coleman
Partner
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
Anna Craft
Partner
Bradley
Rose Marie David
SVP, Retail Sales Executive
CMG Financial
Steven Davids
SVP, Product Development & Non-QM Production
Northpointe Bank
Marcia M. Davies
mPower Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Mortgage Bankers Association
Tom Davis
Chief Sales Officer
Deephaven Mortgage LLC
Matthew Detwiler
SVP, Client Relations
Cenlar FSB
Eric Dickerson
Pro Football Hall of Famer, NFL Legend
Kyle Draisey
SVP Chief Information Security Officer
Sagent
Deborah Dubois
President of MBA Opens Doors Foundation
Mortgage Bankers Association
Stephanie Durflinger
Chief Product Officer
Dark Matter Technologies
Bill Emerson
2016 MBA Chairman;
President, Rocket Companies
Laura Escobar
2025 MBA Chair;
President, Lennar Mortgage
Mike Fratantoni, Ph.D.
Chief Economist, Senior Vice President, Research and Business Development
Mortgage Bankers Association
Jim Gaffigan
Award-Winning Comedian, Actor, Producer & Author
Matthew Gallant
Director, Member Relations – Member Engagement
Mortgage Bankers Association
David Gates
COO
Premium Mortgage Corp.
Dana Georgiou
Founding Luminist
Lending Luminary
Ramon Gomez
Managing Director
Chase
Alicia Goncalves, CMB
Director of Associate Membership
Mortgage Bankers Association
Garth Graham
Senior Partner
STRATMOR Group
Nora Guerra
SVP, Community Lending Solutions
Guild Mortgage Company
Meghan Handy
Chief Marketing & Customer Officer
Embrace Home Loans
Julian Hebron
Founder & CEO
The Basis Point
John Hedlund
Vice Chairman
ICE Mortgage Technology
Chris Hendon
Solutions Architect Manager for Housing & Mortgage Industry
Amazon Web Services
John Herdering, AMP
Head of Residential Appraisal – Chief Appraiser
Citizens Bank
Sasha Hewlett, AMP
Associate Vice President, Secondary & Capital Markets
Mortgage Bankers Association
Rick Hill
Vice President, Industry Technology
Mortgage Bankers Association
Jeffrey Hogan
SVP of Valuations /Valligent Chief Appraiser
Veros Real Estate Solutions
Dave Howard
Executive Vice President of Sales for Origination
ServiceLink
Demetria Hudley
Vice President of Human Resources and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
American Pacific Mortgage Corporation
Charlie Johnson, CMB
Senior Vice President, Head of Sales
Solidifi
Nicole Jones
Partner
Bradley
Mark Jones
2024 MBA Chairman;
President, Union Home Mortgage
Kayla Kallander
AVP, Mortgage Loan Officer
First International Bank & Trust
Renuka Kambli
Senior Partner – Lending & Payments
Cognizant
Joel Kan
Vice President, Deputy Chief Economist
Mortgage Bankers Association
Jonathan Kearns
Vice President, Product Development, MISMO
Mortgage Bankers Association
Rachel Kelley
Vice President of Legislative Affairs
Mortgage Bankers Association
Christopher King
SVP, Business Development
Rocket Mortgage, LLC
Jonathan Kolodziej, AMP, CMCP
Partner
Bradley
Geoff Kramer
Financial Services Engineering Leader
Google, Inc.
Dino Lack
EVP Technology
Xpanse
Dimitrios Lagias
Managing Director and Partner
Boston Consulting Group
Kortney Lane-Schafers
VP of Growth & Client Advocacy
MMI
Melissa Langdale
Founder, CEO
Praxis Lending Solutions
Owen Lee
2026 MBA Chair-Elect;
Chief Executive Officer, Success Mortgage Partners, Inc.
Wendy Lee
Managing Partner
LOGS Legal Group
Shelley Leonard
President
Xactus
Eric Litwin
EVP, Enterprise Data
Pennymac
Jamey Lynch, AMP
Associate Vice President of Political Affairs
Mortgage Bankers Association
Tela Mathias
CEO and CTO Phoenix Burst, COO PhoenixTeam
PhoenixTeam
Julie May
B2B Scores, VP
FICO
Christopher McEntee
Vice President, Corporate Development
ICE
Tiffany McGarry
Vice President of Product Management
Optimal Blue, LLC
Jennifer McGuinness
CEO
Pivot Financial
Greg Middleman
Managing Director and Corporate Executive
Freedom Mortgage Corporation
Elizabeth Million
Senior Vice President, Lending
Elevations Credit Union
Steven A. Milner
Founder and CEO
US Mortgage Corporation
Maria V. Moskver, Esq.
CEO
Cloudvirga
Chris Mozilo, CMB
SVP, TPO Production
Kind Lending
Devin Norales, AMP
Scores Client Services, Director
FICO
Felipe Obando, Jr.
Vice President, Marketing
Essent Guaranty, Inc.
Patrick O’Brien
CEO
LenderLogix
Tom Pearce
Chairman & CEO
MAXEX
Kevin Peranio
Chief Lending Officer
Paramount Residential Mortgage Group
Erin Reilly
Associate Director, Political Affairs
Mortgage Bankers Association
Tamra Rieger
President
Evergreen Home Loans
Mike Scarpa
VP – Property Risk Management
Freedom Mortgage Corporation
Mickey Schilling, CMB
Chief Revenue Officer
MegaStar Financial Corp
Terry L. Schmidt
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Guild Mortgage Company
Eloise Schmitz
CEO and Co-Founder
LoanNEX
Lisa Schreiber
SVP Correspondent Lending
eResi Capital
Maria Shriver
Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Max Slyusarchuk
CEO, A and D Mortgage
David Sober, CMB
VP-Automation Sales
Indecomm Global Services
Nick Soltis
SVP of Strategic Solutions
Factual Data
Sasha Stair, CMB
Chief Marketing Officer
Xactus
Brian K. Stucky
CEO
Decision-X
Seever Sulaiman
Chief Technology Officer
Optimal Blue, LLC
The Honorable Lawrence H. Summers
Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001);
Director, White House National Economic Council (2009-2010)
Shawn Telford
Chief Valuation Officer
Cotality
Amanda Tucker
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, LLC
Craig Ungaro
COO
AnnieMac Home Mortgage
Sedwin Vadakut
Vice President & Head of Performance Excellence
Cotality
Matthew VanFossen, CMB
Chief Executive Officer
Absolute Home Mortgage Corp.
Vimi Vasudeva
Managing Director, Hedging & Trading Client Services
Optimal Blue, LLC
Jake Vermillion
Chief Marketing Officer
Mortgage Champions
Brian Vieaux, CMB
President
MISMO
Monica Von Egidy, AMP
Scores Client Services, Sr Manager
FICO
Mike Vough
Head of Corporate Strategy
Optimal Blue, LLC
Marina Walsh, CMB
Vice President, Industry Analysis
Mortgage Bankers Association
Joshua Weinberg, CMCP
President
Firstline Compliance, LLC
Nanci L. Weissgold, Esq.
MBA’s 2025-2026 MORPAC Chair; Co-Chair, Financial Services Group
Alston & Bird, LLP
Anthony Whiteside
Chief Corporate Officer
Stockton Mortgage Corporation
Brian Woodring
Chief Information Officer
Newrez LLC
Jay W. Wright, Jr., AMP
Partner
Bradley
Jonathan Yam
Senior Solutions Architect for Housing & Mortgage Industry
Amazon Web Services
Suha Zehl, CMB, AMP
Founder & Senior Advisor
Z Technology Solutions
