MBA Honors Mortgage Cadence’s Melissa Kozicki with 2024 Ken Markison Legacy Achievement Award

(Photo of Melissa Kozicki courtesy of Mortgage Cadence)

The Mortgage Bankers Association presented its annual Ken Markison Legacy Achievement Award to Melissa Kozicki, CMB, CMCP, Director of Compliance at Mortgage Cadence.

The award was announced at MBA’s Compliance and Risk Management Conference and recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves in pursuit of the Certified Mortgage Compliance Professional (CMCP) certificate and designation program.

“Melissa has played an instrumental role developing, enhancing, and promoting MBA’s CMCP program, thus ensuring that countless compliance professionals have the training and education they need to succeed in their careers and for their organizations,” said Bob Broeksmit, CMB, MBA’s President and CEO. “She is truly a champion in the compliance community, and I join the many who are happy to see her efforts recognized as this year’s recipient of the Ken Markison Legacy Achievement Award.”

Kozicki has more than 20 years of experience in the mortgage industry, including more than 10 years of software development and testing experience. She currently serves as Director of Compliance at Mortgage Cadence. Prior to Mortgage Cadence, Kozicki held ascending roles during a 13-year tenure at Mortgage Builder Software.

Kozicki’s talents and expertise are wide-ranging, and she has authored numerous mortgage compliance training programs, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is a 2024 Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) graduate. Kozicki also founded the Vendor Regulatory Work Group, a forum for technology vendors in the residential mortgage lending industry to discuss regulations and how technology supports their clients.

The Ken Markison Legacy Achievement Award was established in the name of Ken Markison, following his retirement from MBA in 2017. While at MBA, Markison was in the vanguard of educating members and was the principal architect behind MBA’s Compliance Essentials program. He is also nationally recognized as one of the leading experts in government housing regulations and led the efforts on industry input on “Know Before You Owe” or TRID, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), loan officer compensation matters, and countless other laws and regulations.

For more information on the CMCP certificate and designation program, click here.