As MBA’s vice president of industry technology, Gabe Minton is responsible for overseeing MBA’s leadership role in the establishment of technology standards and best practices for the residential real estate finance industry.

It is a demanding position for which nominator David Matthews of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago thinks Minton is well-suited.

“Gabe has been a tireless proponent of standards across the real estate finance industry,” Matthews said. “He has worked selflessly to promote data and security standards, challenging entrenched trade groups and corporate giants to push standards as the glue that will link all disparate industry segments.”

Minton also works in conjunction with and provides support to the MBA standardization efforts in the commercial real estate finance industry, as well as serving as a staff representative to MBA’s Board of Directors Technology Steering Committee and its Residential Technology Committees.

He is currently helping to maintain and promulgate a set of accreditation guidelines for standardized digital credentials, a system to protect data and enable portable digital signatures. He currently serves for the MBA on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Authentication Partnership, a U.S. Government cross-industry federated identity standards organization.

He was formerly the vice president of standards and alliances with Ultraprise Corporation, a business-to-business technology firm. He has more than 15 years of experience working with and creating software systems and standards, including work at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

Gabe received a Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in Computer Science and Statistics and minor in Mathematics at Radford University in southwestern Virginia. He holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from the University of Maryland, and lectures on technology for the CampusMBA School of Mortgage Banking.


Working with my team and the "STP" volunteers of MISMO.

Helping lead the industry toward mainstream seemless communication and true eMortgages.

Don't ever burn a bridge.



The success of MISMO.



I happened to be flying to a MISMO trimester meeting on the morning of 9/11. I was in the first plane out of IAD, the second departure for LAX is the one that flew into the Pentagon. I was stranded in Garden City, KS for a few days, and ended up getting rescued by a colleague driving back from MISMO to his home in Detroit. My wife met me there and we drove home. It was the most incredible sight to be on the interstate, I have never before or since seen so many American flags flying. I was very lucky.



David Matthews, CIO FHLBC, really showed me the ropes of the mortgage industry. He always has great advice, and is a wonderful person to work for and with.



I am an instrument rated pilot and have sky-dived. Not many people I know that learn to fly and jump out of a plane... =)



I would have to say James Clavell's "Shogun" is one of my favorite books.



Nelly Furtado's "Say it Right "


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