Residential Education Networking Group

Gary is an Experienced Mortgage/HR professional who has spent the last 30+ years in the industry. He has held leadership positions in Servicing in the Escrow Administration, Customer Service areas as well as Originations in Operations and Sales before moving into Learning and Development. Most of his career has been with GMAC Mortgage/ Ditech, NewRez and most recently with Freedom Mortgage where he is VP of Corp. Learning and Development. With this experience and CMB designation from the Mortgage Bankers Association, Gary became an industry known learning leader, participating in the previous MBAs Education committee, building programs to grow the next generation of mortgage bankers.

Cecilia Janson is CEO of BlueJ Strategies and serves as the Chief Delivery Officer to Blackfin Group.  Janson began her career as a mortgage loan processor in 2001 for a small IMB. She advanced quickly and was Vice President and Director of Mortgage Operations for small community bank in Charleston, SC by 2005. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Business Risk Management and System Implementations for South State Bank, N.A. Janson is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mortgage Bankers of the Carolinas and as a Board Member for the Upstate Mortgage Lenders Association of South Carolina.  She Co-Chairs the MBA’s Residential Education Networking Committee and is an instructor for MBA’s School of Mortgage Banking.