Mortgage Bankers Association 2024 Chairman Mark Jones co-founded and led Amerifirst Home Mortgage, served on MBA’s Board of Directors, chaired its Audit and Finance Committee, co-chaired its Independent Mortgage Bankers Executive Council, and testified before Congress. But before this, he was a Division I competitive diver in college.
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Quote: Oct. 16, 2023
“I have been a proud part of the MBA family for nearly four decades and am incredibly honored and ecstatic to serve as the next Chairman. With the support of Laura Escobar and Christine Chandler, I am confident that our industry will overcome the current tough market environment. I am committed to promoting financial literacy for young adults and focusing on advocacy initiatives that increase housing supply and improve affordability in communities across America.”
–Mark Jones, 2024 MBA Chairman and President of Union Home Mortgage

Mark Jones: Ready to Dive In
Mortgage Bankers Association 2024 Chairman Mark Jones co-founded and led Amerifirst Home Mortgage, served on MBA’s Board of Directors, chaired its Audit and Finance Committee, co-chaired its Independent Mortgage Bankers Executive Council, and testified before Congress. But before this, he was a Division I competitive diver in college.

MBA Appoints Eric Gates Chairman of MAA for 2023-2024
The Mortgage Bankers Association appointed Eric Gates, President of Apex Home Loans, Rockville, Md., as chairman of the MBA Mortgage Action Alliance for the 2023-2024 election cycle.

MBA Names Owen Lee 2023-2024 MORPAC Chair
The Mortgage Bankers Association appointed Owen Lee, CEO of Success Mortgage Partners Inc., Plymouth, Mich., chairman of MORPAC, its political action committee, for the 2023-2024 election cycle.

#MBAServicing23: Shon Hopwood’s Road to Redemption
Hopwood is an author, lawyer and professor of criminal justice at Georgetown University who has twice had petitions accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also, as he readily attested here at the MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo, a convicted bank robber.

#MBAServicing23: Shon Hopwood’s Road to Redemption
Hopwood is an author, lawyer and professor of criminal justice at Georgetown University who has twice had petitions accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also, as he readily attested here at the MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo, a convicted bank robber.

(#MBAServicing23) Jones: More Challenges Ahead for Servicers
ORLANDO–Mortgage Bankers Association Chairman-Elect Mark Jones kicked off the MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo here with a thank-you to the mortgage servicing industry’s “heroic” work during the coronavirus epidemic, now in its third full year.

#MBAServicing23: Jones: More Challenges Ahead for Servicers
ORLANDO–Mortgage Bankers Association Chairman-Elect Mark Jones kicked off the MBA Servicing Solutions Conference & Expo here with a thank-you to the mortgage servicing industry’s “heroic” work during the coronavirus epidemic, now in its third full year.

#MBAAnnual22: Ginnie Mae, FHFA, FHA Go Big
NASHVILLE—Presentations by government agencies at major events such as the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Annual Convention & Expo can be pretty staid affairs. Not so this year. On Monday, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and FHA made one major announcement after the other, literally creating their own news cycle.