MBA Honors 2025 NewsLink Tech All-Stars: Seever Sulaiman and Kaushal Shah

(From left, John Hedlund with Kaushal Shah and Seever Sulaiman, during the awards presentation. Image by Anneliese Mahoney)

LAS VEGAS–The Mortgage Bankers Association awarded the MBA NewsLink Tech All-Star Award on Tuesday to two visionary leaders in the mortgage technology industry.

This year’s honorees are Seever Sulaiman and Kaushal Shah.

Kaushal Shah joined Class Valuation as chief technology officer in 2021 following executive roles at financial cooperative SWIFT–the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication–and Verizon, among others. He is reimagining the end-to-end appraisal experience powered by data & Artificial Intelligence.

Optimal Blue Chief Technology Officer Seever Sulaiman has been in the mortgage industry since 1997. He co-founded Resitrader–the first exchange and portal for trading whole loan mortgages between sellers and buyers–in 2015 and served as chief information officer. Optimal Blue acquired Resitrader in 2018.

“Gaining efficiency and economies of scale is important at any time but especially in today’s market,” MBA Vice President of Industry Technology Rick Hill said. “MBA’s 2025 Tech All-Star award winners have developed creative solutions that automate key processes within our industry, enabling companies to do more with less. They are very deserving of being recognized as All Stars.”