GENERAL SESSION: Data-Driven Decisioning for IMBs

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 10:15 AM-11:15 AM Napoleon Ballroom CD, Third Floor
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Get the latest market intel to take action for your company. Hear the latest quarter’s report-out on financial performance of independent mortgage companies overall. Gain insight on how the data may impact your business decisions for the rest of 2024 and 2025, including where to find pockets of opportunity.

Speakers

Moderator

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    Laura Escobar

    2024 MBA Chair-Elect; President, Lennar Mortgage

    Laura Escobar is the 2024 MBA Chair-Elect and President of Lennar Mortgage. A 30-year mortgage industry veteran, Escobar has held leadership positions with both bank-owned and independent mortgage companies overseeing all aspects of mortgage banking, including production, operations, compliance, accounting, and training. Her personal ground level experience in every facet of mortgage lending has enabled her to manage and fully integrate all of these departments within Lennar Mortgage. Escobar is highly engaged in the industry, serves on MBA’s Board of Directors, and was co-chair of MBA’s IMB Executive Council from 2020–2022. She is also a director of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation, which she has supported by successfully fundraising for the foundation’s work and leading Lennar in company campaigns. Beyond her industry work, she is also a licensed mental health counselor and devotes much of her time to working with underprivileged women.

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    Marina Walsh, CMB

    Vice President, Industry Analysis, Mortgage Bankers Association

    Marina Walsh, CMB, is Vice President of Industry Analysis in MBA's Research and Economics Department, specializing in industry performance benchmarking for residential lenders and servicers. She leads the management and direction for the Mortgage Bankers Performance Reports, the Servicing Operations Study and Forum, the Peer Group Survey and Roundtable Program, the Mortgage Banking Compensation Survey Program, the Weekly Forbearance and Call Volume Survey, and other ad hoc surveys and policy analyses. She is also MBA's spokesperson for the National Delinquency Survey. In addition, Walsh conducts specialty workshops and roundtables on a variety of current topics critical to the mortgage industry. Prior to joining MBA, Walsh was a manager in Ernst and Young's Real Estate Advisory Services Group where her focus was Federal credit program design, implementation, and performance measurement. In 2016, she was named to HousingWire's "Women of Influence" list.

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