GENERAL SESSION: Tech Showcase on Optimizing Your Tech Stack

IMB Network Co-Chair; Chief Growth Officer/Partner, EPM

Laura Brandao is a mortgage industry leader who has dedicated her career to educating, supporting, and lifting others to their highest potential. She is currently the Chief Growth Officer and a partner at EPM responsible for overseeing operations, business development, and the build-out of multiple verticals. Laura also serves as the CEO of Lighthouse Lending Capital, a new division of EPM specializing in unique loan programs and private lending. Laura is also dedicated to serving the mortgage community through being the Chair of NAMMBA’s Visionary program, the Chair of the MBANJ Women’s committee and an MBANJ board member as well as the Chair of Women with Vision. Her recent honors include 2023 Most influential businesswoman to Watch, 2022 Enterprising Woman of the Year, MPA 2022 Elite Women, 2022 Mortgage Banker’s Legends in Lending, 2022 Leaders in Finance Award, Global Women in Leadership Award winner, AIME Sparking Change Award, 2022 NJBIZ leaders in finance, 2022 Legends in Lending, 2021 MPA housing Industry Icon, a 4-time winner of Most Powerful Women in Mortgage, a 5-time Woman of Influence and a three-time “Women with Vision. Laura is a coveted speaker, and well-regarded champion for the industry as well as a 3 -time best-selling author. Her passion for helping families is the spark that ignited Laura’s early success. Today, Laura is a beacon of inspiration for mortgage professionals. She is a champion of women in the mortgage industry who are in all phases of their careers. Her high-octane energy comes through in each of her interactions, be it one on one, virtual platform, or in a large conference setting. Regardless of the state of the market, Laura’s message is consistent, “focus on the positive, and with a can-do attitude, one can manifest a positive outcome”.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Basis Point

Julian Hebron is founder of The Basis Point, a sales and strategy consultancy to banks, lenders, and fintechs, and a consumer finance media brand. He advises top innovators in lending, banking, and housing on their most important and complex issues. With over 25 years in executive sales and marketing roles for companies like UBS, Wells Fargo, loanDepot, and LendUS -- as well as today's fintech disruptors -- Julian’s accessible analytical style distills the noisy consumer finance and real estate space into clear insights that banking, housing, and fintech leaders can relate to.

CEO, Synergy One Lending, Inc.