SPEAKERS

Joseph J. Murin
President
Ginnie Mae

Joseph J. Murin was sworn in as President of the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) on July 1, 2008. His primary responsibility is to oversee Ginnie Mae’s mission of making affordable housing a reality for millions of Americans. As President of Ginnie Mae, Mr. Murin operates a multi-billion dollar company, responsible for a wide range of risk management initiatives, including capital market activity and credit loss, and has oversight of more than 200 lender servicing operations.

Mr. Murin brings with him more than 36 years of experience in the mortgage and banking industry. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Murin served as Managing Partner with Mortgage Settlement Network, LLC. He was responsible for the strategic direction of the company and served as the driving force behind their long-range plans and objectives.

Mr. Murin also served in multiple positions at Basis100, a Toronto-based publicly traded technology company. Basis100 is responsible for the development of the Canadian Bond Trading system, as well as the Automated Property Valuation (AVM) methodology currently utilized throughout the U.S. market.

In addition to mortgage and banking experience, Mr. Murin has had significant exposure to the trading and lending aspect of the industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Murin led the transformation of Lender’s Service, Inc. (LSI) from an appraisal, title, and closing management company to a provider of new technologies and business process solutions for the national marketplace. LSI was later sold to Merrill Lynch, where Mr. Murin served as CEO upon the recapitalization of LSI in 1998.

Mr. Murin began his career as a loan officer with Pittsburgh National Bank, now PNC Bank, in the early 1970s. From 1979 to 1982, he served as President of Murin Brothers, Inc., a family-owned business, which built single-family residential and multifamily housing primarily for low- and moderate-income families. He also served as President of Century Mortgage Company from 1985 to 1989.

Mr. Murin received his degree in business from National Louis University. He and his wife, Angela, live in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. They have two married daughters and three grandchildren.

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Richard J. Andreano
Partner
Weiner Brodsky Sidman Kider PC

Richard Andreano focuses on regulatory compliance, transactional and administrative matters for residential housing and financial clients. His practice includes: Advising lenders, brokers, financial service companies, builders, title companies and real estate professionals regarding matters involving RESPA, TILA, ECOA, FairHA, FCRA, FDCPA, HMDA, information privacy and safeguarding requirements and other federal and state laws; Assisting clients with affiliated business arrangements, marketing and incentive programs, and developing new loan programs and arrangements; Representing clients in RESPA, fair lending/housing and other administrative investigations and enforcement actions.

Rich is counsel to the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) on RESPA reform, and is a frequent speaker on industry matters for MBA, RESPRO, October Seminars, and other organizations Rich also is a faculty member for the National Association of Federal Credit Union’s regulatory compliance school.

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Jeff Arouh
Partner
Holland & Knight LLP

One of the nation's leading RESPA attorneys, Jeffrey Arouh, is a partner in the New York City office of Holland & Knight. He has practiced in the real estate, executive relocation and settlement services areas for several years, and represents developers, title insurance companies, real estate brokers, appraisers and title insurance agencies, among others. Mr. Arouh is a frequent lecturer for seminars and conferences on numerous legal issues relating to compliance and transactions involving real estate, title, mortgage banking and consumer finance. Mr. Arouh has been published in HR, Mobility, National Relocation & Real Estate magazines, The Practical Lawyer and Corporate Relocation News.

Mr. Arouh will discuss the legal requirements and practical considerations necessary for setting up a large and small joint venture or affiliated arrangement during the AfBA Tool Kit session.

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Kevin M. Breeland
General Manager
Residential Mortgage of South Carolina

Kevin M. Breeland joined Pacific Alaska Mortgage as company president and loan officer in April of 1996. He has been in mortgage banking for 30 years, with 22 of those years in Anchorage, Alaska, and the last two in Charleston, S.C. He came to Anchorage in 1985 for a visit and never left, moved to the Mat-Su Valley in February 2005, then moved to Mount Pleasant, S.C., in July, 2007 when Residential Mortgage, LLC and AgentOwned Realty opened an affiliated business in Mount Pleasant, S.C., named Residential Mortgage of South Carolina, LLC. In 2005, Pacific Alaska Mortgage merged with Residential Mortgage and currently Kevin is general manager of Residential Mortgage of South Carolina, LLC. He currently is the vice chairman for RESPRO, and serves on the policy committee, state issues task force, mortgage task force, membership task force, executive committee, and meeting committee. He also previously served as president of the Alaska Mortgage Bankers Association, legislative committee for Alaska Mortgage Bankers Association, Charleston Trident Association of Realtors housing opportunities committee (RHOF) and CTAR legislative committee.

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Charles C. Cain
President
Alliance Solutions, LLC & Of counsel, The Sterbcow Law Group

Chuck Cain has been in the Title Insurance industry since 1977. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. He is admitted to practice in Ohio and Kentucky, several Federal District courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He is former chair of the Real Property section of the Cincinnati Bar Association, a former director of the Cincinnati Mortgage Banker’s Association and a recipient of a special citation from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development concerning Fair Housing Best Practices.

A native Cincinnatian, he has been a licensed title insurance agent for over 25 years, was an owner-operator of his own agency for 18 years and corporate officer with LandAmerica for over 10 years. He has spoken before many state land title associations, state and local bar associations, RESPRO, the National Settlement Services Summit, Title Radio, and numerous other groups and classes on the topic of title insurance and compliance. His many articles have been published in state land title publications and in October Research publications.

He has been nationally prominent in the creation and management of compliant affiliated and alliance relationships having been involved in the creation of over 400 such relationships in over 20 states. Having worked in all areas of the title industry and with its customers he brings a great depth of knowledge of all aspects of the real estate industry.

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David Coleman
Managing Director
The Summit Point Group

David Coleman is the Managing Director of The Summit Point Group, a strategic management and technology consulting firm. He is a former Fortune 100 senior executive with over twenty-five years of leadership experience. He most recently served as Vice President of Technology at Fannie Mae where he led strategic business and technology planning. During his tenure at the company, he managed technology and business divisions as the mortgage industry went through significant transition and was forced to cope with multiple crises.

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Tom Cronkright
Owner & CEO
Sun Title Agency

Thomas W. Cronkright II is a founding member of Sun Title Agency and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He is a licensed title producer in multiple states. Tom is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of Michigan and holds a real estate broker's license. His primary responsibilities include marketing, strategic planning, business development and oversight of the company's commercial property division.

Tom was previously an attorney in the business and corporate practice groups of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP and Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone, P.L.C. In 2004, Tom formed Corporate Advisors PLC, a private law firm that specializes in legal and corporate strategy services for businesses and business owners. Tom received his B.A. degree in finance from Western Michigan University and his law degree from Wayne State University.

Tom is a member of the American Land Title Association (ALTA), National Realtor's Association, Michigan Realtor's Association, American Bar Association, Michigan Bar Association and the Downtown Development Authority of the City of Rockford.

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Paul M. Doman
President and CEO
Accurate Equity Group

Paul M. Doman, Esq. is the President and CEO of the Accurate Equity Group, an operating division of the newly formed Accurate Group Holdings, LLC. Accurate is a group of national settlement service companies focusing on all aspects of the real estate lending industry. Paul previously served as a President of First American’s Equity Loan Services Division where he focused on leading a team of five hundred employees and developing creative product solutions for the home equity niche. He began his career with First American in 1995 working as a title attorney.

Paul currently resides in Russell, Ohio with his wife Susannah and two daughters.

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Mick Goldstein
EVP, Business Development
Realty Data Corp

Mick Goldstein joined RealtyDataCorp in November 2008 as Executive Vice President, Business Development, reporting to Bill Welge, President of RealtyDataCorp.

Prior to joining RealtyDataCorp, Goldstein was Executive Vice President, Business Development for Closing Market, division of RamQuest Software, from October 2006 through October 2008.

Prior to joining Closing Market, Goldstein was Executive Vice President, Business Development, for RealEC Technologies. Goldstein was chartered to lead the business development, sales and technical liaison projects relating to business and product development efforts of RealEC Technologies. He was also responsible for creating and managing strategic alliances between RealEC Technologies and such entities as LOS’ and other order-originators, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, MI companies, and major RealEC-connected services providers such as Fidelity National Financial, LandAmerica Financial Group, Lender’s Service, Old Republic and Stewart Mortgage Information Services.

Prior to joining RealEC Technologies, Goldstein was Vice President, Client Support Services for Chicago Title and Trust from 1997. Leading the Client Support Services, Goldstein was responsible for all external interfaces for Chicago Title and its business units as well as serving as technical contact to the Top 100 Loan Origination entities, LOS companies, MI companies, FNMA and FMAC.

Goldstein graduated from UCLA in 1966 with a Business Arts Degree in Political Science. He has resided in Irvine, California since 1975. He and wife Penny have two sons, ages 28 and 21.

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Rick Grant
Principal
RGA

Rick Grant has been a writer and journalist for over 25 years and is the founder of Jim Thorpe, Pa.-based Rick Grant & Associates (RGA), a company he founded in early 2007 to provide businesses with customized strategic communications solutions.

Prior to launching RGA, Grant founded Texell Interactive Media, a production company delivering electronic audio and video content for Web-based marketing. In his roles as both president and CEO, Grant designed, wrote and produced Internet marketing collateral (podcasts, blogs, webinars, etc.) for more than 20 clients. He sold the company in 2007.

Before following his entrepreneurial interests, Grant spent more than a decade as one of the nation’s leading financial industry-focused journalists. His articles have been featured in national newspapers, magazines and online publications and he is recognized as one the first bloggers in the financial services industry. Grant is frequently featured in the financial industry’s top publications as a contributing writer and is often asked to share his expertise by speaking at national conferences and hosting seminars.

He most recently served as editor of Real Estate Technology Insight (RETI). Prior to his work at RETI, Grant was an editor for Source Media publications (formerly Thomson Media). During his time there, Grant served as managing editor for Origination News magazine, Broker magazine, Mortgage Technology magazine, and the HomeEquityWire electronic newsletter. He served as special reports editor for National Mortgage News and designed the curricula for industry conferences. Today he is a columnist for HousingWire and writes freature articles for Mortgage Banking, the magazine of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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Howard W. "Hoby" Hanna, IV
President
Howard Hanna Ohio

As President of Howard Hanna Ohio, Hoby knows and understands every aspect of the real estate industry through first-hand experience, gained beginning in childhood as the member of a family that owns a dynamic, nationally recognized real estate business.
 
Today, as President of Howard Hanna Ohio, he directs the business and operational efforts of Howard Hanna throughout the state of Ohio and works with the firm’s clients, branch managers and REALTORS® to insure the company’s on-going reputation for excellence.

He also is in charge of land development, works with Howard Hanna Mortgage, and Barristers of Ohio Title & Escrow Services and Howard Hanna Insurance.

Hoby’s involvement extends beyond the company and into the real estate profession and business in general, as well as the community. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Northern Ohio Multiple Listing Service (NORMLS), which works with 750 member real estate companies and over 8000 real estate agents, to continually establish the highest of standards for marketing properties that are for sale on behalf of MLS users

Hoby also is a member of the Realty Alliance, a network of North America’s most elite residential real estate firms. Members of the organization, which serves almost every major market on the continent, develop new ideas, strategies and methods to enable members to provide the highest degree of finest quality real estate service and counsel to their clients.

His vision for innovation within the real estate industry is shown by his involvement as a Member of the Board of Trulia, a real estate search engine. Trulia benefits clients, by highlighting properties and providing pertinent consumer information about properties on the market, and real estate professionals, by helping them market their listings, promote their services and provide meaningful data.

Hoby is a member of the Board of Directors for North Coast Community Homes, which develops and maintains housing for individuals with mental retardation and developmental disabilities in Cuyahoga, Lake and Stark Counties in Ohio and for individuals with severe mental illness in Summit County Ohio.

He also serves as a member of the Cleveland Chapter of Young President’s Organization (YPO). The organization brings together more than 11,000 members in more than 100 nations to exchange ideas, share strategies, and address the challenges of leadership. Members of YPO hold the titles of president, chair, CEO, managing director, head partner, etc. in companies of at least 50 employees. The average age of a member of YPO is 43 years old.

Hoby is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and the Leadership Development program and Yale University. He is a licensed Broker and is active in numerous other professional, civic and community organizations locally and nationally.

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George Houghton
Executive Vice President, Agency Services Group
Stewart Title Guaranty Company

George Houghton has thirty-three (33) years of title industry experience. George has experience in the areas of abstracting, title examination, underwriting, closing, title policy preparation, accounting, branch office management, company management, claims handling and as district manager servicing and supporting independent title agencies.

Prior to assuming his present position as Executive Vice President, Agency Services Group, Stewart Title Guaranty Company, George was  Senior Vice President and National Agency Services Director of Stewart Title Guaranty Company and District Agency Manager for South and West Texas for Stewart Title Guaranty Company from 2000-2005. 

George was Senior Vice President and National Closing Officer for Stewart Title of Houston from 1998-2000. In that position he closed many types of commercial transactions including industrial sites, office buildings, apartments, hotels/motels, retail shopping centers, airports, golf courses, and residential land developments.

From 1984-1996 George was President of Fort Bend Title Company and its subsidiary, Citizens Title Company, which were both independent title agents in the Houston area.

George was born in and grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1981.  He went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from Houston Baptist University in 1983.

Additionally, George has been a licensed real estate broker in Texas since 1980.

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Susan R. Jones
President/Co-owner
Royal Title Services – Statewide

Susan Jones is a co-owner of Royal Title Services - Statewide. Her professional career reflects over 20 years of residential and commercial real estate industry experience in the Land Title Insurance business by providing full service land title information and real estate closings that serve local, statewide, and national customers. Ms. Jones professional and volunteer positions include being State President of the Indiana Land Title Association, President of the Western Division of the Board of Realtors, President of the Avon Rotary, President of the Indianapolis Title Association, and Fifth Third Bank Board Member. Additionally, she has been chosen by the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) to be in the “40 Under Forty” and Royal Title has been consistently named in the IBJ as one of the top Women Owned Businesses. She speaks throughout the country for Land Title, Realtor, and Lending groups on various Personal Development and Land Title related topics and she is a graduate of Purdue University.

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Julie Joseforsky
Director of Consumer Lending, SVP
M&I Bank

Julie Joseforsky is a Senior vice president and the Director of Consumer Lending for M&I Bank. Prior to joining M&I Bank, she was the CEO, Senior vice president of the Consumer Bank Lending division for IndyMac Bank and prior to that she held the position of President of Key Bank Mortgage, overseeing the vendor management and indirect home equity divisions. She has also held director roles in Compliance and Direct Lending at HSBC and director roles in Mortgage and Home Equity Lending and Marketing at JP Morgan Chase.

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Paul J. Mass
President
Closing.com

Paul is the president of Closing.com, a one-stop-shop for real estate closing services on the Web. Closing.com, in partnership with the California Land Title Association, created the TitleWizard, a free, Web-based tool that helps consumers and professionals find and compare title insurance policies, promotions, rates and companies that serve their area. Paul also serves as President of Mass Ventures, a closely-held LLC through which he manages private equity investments. Between 1987 and 1997, Paul served as COO of CableSouth Inc., which he and ClosingCorp CEO Tony Farwell built into a highly-profitable southeastern MSO, which was sold to Charter Communications in 1995. Paul helped spearhead CableSouth’s successful expansion into radio through its subsidiary, BayCom Partners LP. Its six major market radio stations were later sold to American Radio Systems in 1996. Paul and Tony also co-founded TV Data Technologies LP, the world’s largest TV listings and entertainment information provider, later sold to the Tribune Company.

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Barbara Miller
President and Chief Operating Officer
TSS Software Corporation

Barbara L. Miller is co-founder, president and chief operating officer of TSS Software Corporation. Ms. Miller’s professional career spans all aspects of the land title business, from searcher and processor to title agency manager. Ms. Miller’s intrigue with title technologies and their future impact on the real estate transfer process was the impetus for forming TSS in 1993. She is a frequent speaker at title insurance underwriter-sponsored events as well as national and state land title association conferences.

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Bob Miller
CEO and Co-founder
TSS Software Corporation

Bob is chief executive officer and co-founder of TSS Software Corporation, a leading provider of software and services to land title professionals since 1993. He has over 30 years of real estate industry experience and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics. He has served as a faculty member in the Graduate Business School at Johns Hopkins University as well as the business schools at the University of Baltimore and American University in Washington, D.C.

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Anthony Nalbone
National Director
Text2Title.com, an authorized representative for Connecttotitle.

Anthony Nalbone serves as the National Director of "Text2Title.com"; an authorized representative for Connnettotitle; an innovative advertising and relationship tracking solution platform that puts title information at realtor’s/lender’s fingertips 24/7. Prior to his current role, Anthony held the position of Vice President, Alliance Partner for LandAmerica Financial Group’s family of companies throughout the Western United States. He has extensive experience within the title and settlement services industry, including starting, running and growing successful title and mortgage operations with a heavy emphasis on utilizing technology to maximize sales revenue. His background includes expertise with sales and marketing, joint ventures, all forms of affiliated business arrangements, as well as with mergers and acquisitions. Anthony has also held an executive level position in retail lending, as having been the Vice President and Co-Owner of a former multistate mortgage lending company.

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Mary O’Donnell
President and CEO
Westcor Land Title Insurance Company

Mary O’Donnell is President and CEO of Westcor Land Title Insurance Company, a California domiciled underwriter currently licensed in 19 states. Westcor is an agent based independent underwriter committed to aggressive expansion through relationships with independent entrepreneurial agents. Westcor currently maintains regional offices in Nevada, Arizona, California and Florida.

Mary was born in Liverpool, England. She graduated with honors from the University of Sheffield, College of Law, Yorkshire, England in 1984 (LLB 1984). Mary is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and Florida. In February of 1989, she entered the title insurance industry with a regional underwriter and became Assistant General Counsel. Her duties have included underwriting and handling insurance claims. She served on the Florida Land Title’s Forms and Continuing Education Committee, as well as the Government Affairs Committee. She is one of the authors of the Florida Land Title “Title Insurance Handbook”. Mary is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Florida Bar Association.

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Joseph Petrelli
President & Founder
Demotech, Inc.

Joseph Petrelli is a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society, American Academy of Actuaries and Conference of Consulting Actuaries. He has earned a Bachelors of Science in Actuarial Science from St. John's University and an MBA from Ohio State University.

Mr. Petrelli's background includes 36 years of progressively responsible property, casualty and title insurance actuarial and statistical work. In 1985, he authored an MBA research paper entitled “An Actuarial Perspective on Title Insurance,” and in 1999, was a contributor to a Commerce Clearing House publication that presented information on the emerging title insurance market in Canada. In 2003, Demotech, Inc. purchased Performance of Title Insurance Companies from Corporate Development Services.

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Lou Phillips
Deputy General Manager
UST Global

Lou has more than 25 years experience in the financial services industry and more than 10 years in experience in mortgage banking. He is responsible for successfully transitioning client processes to UST Global and building partnerships by consistently delivering quality service. Previously, Lou was a senior vice president at JPMorgan Chase where he was responsible for eCommerce initiatives, vendor management and creating joint ventures. He designed, built and managed outsourced banking environments for clients such as HSBC and Bank of New York, and created systems and built relationships to support third-party services within mortgage process.

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Leslie Rennell
CEO
Resource Title

Leslie Rennell has been with Resource Title, one of the nation’s largest independent title
agencies, for over 11 years. During that time, she has grown what was a small regional
agency into one of the largest independent, full-service title companies in the nation. Leslie has rounded her firm’s service offerings to include REO, default and foreclosure servicing, relocation services and commercial title in addition to traditional full-service residential title and closing,

Leslie has spoken at the Mortgage Banking Association’s Western Servicing Conference, the Five-Star Default Service Conference and the National Settlement Services Summit, among other events. She has ten years of experience growing and operating Resource Title’s REO and default offerings, and understands the transaction from cradle to grave. 

Leslie has a bachelor’s degree in business from Myers University, with an ABA paralegal certificate from Myers as well. Before entering the title industry, she spent almost 30 years in the legal field, working in-house and with firms in Detroit and Cleveland.

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Brian Rieger
Principal
True Impact Communications

Brian is a former litigator with eight years of public relations and marketing communications experience.  He has served the title and settlement services industry for six years, providing strategic counsel for national underwriters, technology developers, title agencies and vendor management companies of all sizes. 

Brian spent five years with October Research Corporation, overseeing the growth of its seminars division (including marketing and content for two of the first three National Settlement Services Summits) as Vice President, Seminars & Studies.  He also spent a year as the Director, Account Services with agency NorthPointe Communications, forging and executing multiple branding strategies for a variety of settlement services firms.  Brian is comfortable delivering counsel on PR, marketing (Web, trade conference and print) and advertising strategies; event planning; and social media (LinkedIn, Twitter).  He received his JD at The University of Connecticut School of Law, and his BA at The Ohio State University.  

Brian will review simple and practical strategies for telling one’s corporate story through a variety of cost-effective media.  It is Brian’s belief that effective PR and marketing does not always require a large budget, but that it does require a comprehensive strategy.

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Bob Skalstad
President, SCI
Executive Vice President and a Principle of Corporate Management Advisors (CMA)

Bob Skalstad is the President of Skalstad Consulting, Inc. (SCI) and an Executive Vice President and a Principal of Corporate Management Advisors (CMA). 

During his 25-year career in the financial services industry, Skalstad has served in a number of roles for a wide variety of organizations, including national account sales, management and consulting with Unisys, CMSI, TRW Information Services/Strategic Management Services and ALLTEL Information Services.

Skalstad joined CMA in 1996, quickly becoming an integral member of the management team. His background in financial services, technology, vendor management and consulting established his reputation as a top performer with CMA, and was the foundation for his decision to leverage his experience to create SCI.

As part of CMA’s management team, Skalstad has been instrumental in guiding that group to a position as one of the nation’s leading executive search firms: CMA has placed more than 7,000 executives since its inception. Over the years, CMA has broadened its reach to other industries including vendor management, settlement services, technology, insurance and investment banking. 

In 2007, Skalstad created SCI to assist financial institutions and service providers with new and creative ways to be more competitive, efficient and productive in a challenging economic environment. SCI uses a creative blend of industry knowledge, experience and skills to provide its clients with the best products, practices, services, intellectual capital and resources available in the market today.

A key to Skalstad’s success is his commitment to building long-term client relationships.  His belief in anticipating the needs of clients and exceeding their expectations with exceptional service and cutting-edge solutions has set the benchmark for the industry. 

Skalstad received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Towson State University in Baltimore, Maryland. His professional memberships include Mortgage Bankers Association, ALTA and TAVMA. He is very active as an industry speaker, conference presenter and moderator.

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John Socknat
Member,
Weiner Brodsky Sidman Kider PC

John’s practice focuses on state and federal regulatory compliance matters related to the financial services industry. John represents and advises mortgage companies, consumer finance companies, financial institutions, title companies, real estate brokers and secondary market investors on issues such as: state and federal licensing and approval requirements, including those related to stock and asset acquisitions; state laws and regulations concerning fees, disclosures, interest rates, and practices; federal laws including, but not limited to ECOA, FCRA, GLBA (privacy), RESPA & TILA; e-commerce issues, including electronic signatures, electronic storage of records and electronic delivery of disclosures.

John also performs specialized regulatory compliance due diligence on lenders, servicers and other settlement service providers; develops, structures and negotiates business relationships, including joint ventures and asset and stock transactions; assists with structuring operations and developing compliance programs; and represents clients in state and federal enforcement actions.

John is a member of the Advisory Council to the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR), and is working closely with the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) in the testing and implementation of the CSBS/AARMR Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS).

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Bill Stueber
Chief Executive Officer
Garden Home Title

Bill Stueber is the Chief Executive Officer of Garden Home Title Group, a national title, escrow and settlement service provider formed in 2004 and based in Sunrise, FL. Since 2005, Bill has also served as Managing Partner of Title Advisors Group, which delivers enterprise-class technology solutions and software consulting to title companies across the country. TAG had succcesfully guided its clients to uncommon profitability and increased marketshare. Optimistic, as the title industry enters an unprecedented period of opportunity stemming directly from rapid, broad-based changes in regulatory and internet technology influences, TAG provides a cost-effective, high ROI value proposition to its client base.

As a nationally-recognized technology to business expert, Bill has consulted for more than two hundred companies, financial institutions, analysts and investment groups in the areas of technology to business integration, business process flow, financial model sustainability, management change outs, financial and operational forecasting, mergers & acquisitions and rollup consolidation strategies. Bill’s clients include CitiGroup, Goldman Sachs, Franklin-Templeton, Oppenheimer Funds, Bear Stearns, Fidelity Investments, Pequot, Deutsche Bank, McKinsey & Co., Bain & Company among many others.

Since 2002, Bill has served as Trustee and Director at his Alma Mater, DeSales University, in Center Valley, PA., where he also serves on the Development and Advisory Board Committees. Bill has been a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Technology Leaders Council since 2002, maintaining a consistent “Top 5%” national ranking among his industry peers. Throughout his career, Bill has spoken at numerous conferences, symposiums and panels. Most recently, he has been the Key Note speaker for the 2007 GMAC National Conference presentations on Affiliated Business Arrangements (AfBA’s) for Title, Escrow and Closing Services, the Key Note speaker for the 2007 South Florida Technology Alliance together with numerous other speaking engagements.

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Mark Tidd
President
TitleOne Corporation

Mark Tidd is President and founder of TitleOne Corporation, a leading title and escrow service provider in Boise, Idaho and Las Vegas, Nevada. Prior to starting TitleOne he served as Vice-President/Chief Financial Officer and Treasure Valley Operations Manager for Alliance Title & Escrow for seven years. From March 1987 to March 1994 Mr. Tidd served as project business manager for Morrison Knudson Corporation. Mr. Tidd has a degree in finance from the University of Idaho and a Masters of Business Administration from Boise State University

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David A. Townsend
President and CEO
Agents National Title Insurance Company

David A. Townsend is President and CEO of Agents National Title Insurance Company, a regional title insurance underwriter based in Columbia, Missouri. Agents National Title Insurance was founded to meet the needs of independent title agents. Mr. Townsend is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Law and Drury University and has many years of experience in the areas of real estate and title law.  Mr. Townsend is a speaker for the Missouri Land Title Association Title School, October Research Seminars and other continuing education seminars.   He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Missouri Bar Association, and the Missouri Department of Insurance Title Insurance Advisory Committee, Missouri Land Title Association, Indiana Land Title Association and Arkansas Land Title Association.  David is married to Kerry Townsend and lives in Columbia, Missouri.

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Darryl Turner
Founder and CEO
The Darryl Turner Corporation

Darryl Turner is a leading expert in helping title companies achieve and exceed their business goals. Known for his integrity in the sales process, over the past 13 years. Turner has built a national, multi-million dollar consulting and sales and training company.

Rapidly becoming a friend and mentor to those in the title and real estate related industries. Turner's focus is to see individuals and companies achieve ultimate success in the world of sales without compromising integrity. He is Founder and CEO of The Darryl Turner Corporation based in Modesto, California.

His team of Executive Consultants provide on-site, cutting-edge business solutions to real estate related companies nationwide. Turner's exclusive system of business development has been successfully implemented in over 400 title companies alone in over 38 states since 1994.

Additionally, Turner is a renowned and much-sought-after speaker to thousands of organizations. He has been the driving force for positive change in the way business expansion is accomplished. Delivering over 200 seminars to over 100,000 people annually, each of Turner's presentations is packed with practical advice, which attendees can employ as soon as they get back to their offices.

Turner and his wife, Darlene, have two sons, one daughter and one grandson and live in Modesto, California.

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Travis Wright
Principal
Wright Strategy Advisors

Travis is the principal of Wright Strategy Advisors, consulting to clients on customer centric and social media business strategies. His career spans over 30 years in the real estate industry serving in leadership roles in real estate franchising, mortgage banking, corporate relocation and title insurance operations. He most recently served as the founder and president of Stewart Transaction Solutions at Stewart Title where he marketed Internet-hosted software technologies to the Realtor, lender and title insurance industries.

Travis is a frequent speaker at industry events, is married to a top-producing Realtor, and resides with his wife and Dachshunds in The Woodlands, TX.

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Syndie Eardly
Editorial Director
October Research Corporation

Syndie Eardly is Editorial Director of October Research, overseeing the editorial content for the company’s five newsletters for the real estate, mortgage and settlement services industries, including The Title Report, The Legal Description, Valuation Review, RESPA News and Real Law Central. She also manages the content for the company’s two national conferences, the National Compliance Summit held in February each year, and the National Settlement Services Summit held in June in Cleveland. Syndie has over 20 years experience as a writer and journalist, having worked for weekly community and legal newspapers. Prior to joining October Research in 2003, she was communications director for the Cleveland Bar Association.

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Kelly McCarel
Editor
RESPAnews.com

Kelly McCarel is the editor of RESPAnews.com and RESPA News Monthly at October Research Corporation. She reports on the latest RESPA developments through RESPAnews.com, the first and only online publication dedicated to covering all of the issues and news related to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. Prior to joining October Research, Kelly worked in a corporate environment, serving as a communications specialist and handling much of the company’s internal communications. She has also served as editor of the Cleveland Bar Journal at the Cleveland Bar Association, and as associate editor of a statewide legal newspaper in Ohio.

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Jeremy Yohe
Editor
The Title Report

Jeremy Yohe is the editor of The Title Report, which provides business news and analysis for the settlement services industry. Prior to joining October Research, Jeremy was the managing editor of The Massillon Independent, a daily newspaper in Northeastern Ohio. He has 15 years experience as a journalist and has won several Society of Professional Journalism awards for his work at The Title Report, and Associated Press awards for writing and design while working for several newspapers in Ohio and Indiana.

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