Execs On The Move

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) announced that Alexandra Brinton joined the association as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Brinton will oversee MBA’s managerial accounting and financial operations, including financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management.

MBA Education, the education division of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), announced that Christy Soukhamneut, CMB, a financial services executive, consultant and board director, will lead MBA’s Residential Future Leaders Program. Soukhamneut will serve as an industry anchor and role model that will support the growth and development of the Residential Future Leaders students.

Planet Financial Group, LLC, a national financial services company with integrated capabilities across origination, servicing, sub-servicing and asset management, announces Brandon Bean has joined Planet Home Lending as SVP, National Fulfillment. Bean has more than two decades of experience in building strong retail operations and will help Planet in the rapid expansion of its Distributed Retail division.

The MBA Opens Doors Foundation (Opens Doors) welcomed John Hedlund, 2026 MBA Vice Chair and Vice Chairman of ICE Mortgage Technology, to its Board of Directors. Opens Doors provides mortgage and rental assistance to families with critically ill or injured children, allowing parents and guardians to be by a child’s side during treatment, without fear of jeopardizing their home.

MISMO announced that Amy Moses will assume the role of Vice President of Strategic Growth. In this role, Moses will lead MISMO’s growth and revenue strategy, drive expanded industry engagement, and cultivate strategic partnerships that advance adoption and impact of MISMO standards across the mortgage ecosystem.

Optimal Blue announced the promotion of Lanny Rogers III, CPA, to chief financial officer (CFO) and Jeremy Moreno to chief revenue officer (CRO). Their combined experience and long track records of leadership position the company to advance its next stage of growth and client success with a dedicated financial strategy function and strengthened revenue oversight.

ServiceLink has promoted default mortgage veteran Matt Rogina to senior vice president, sales manager. In this role, Rogina will assist with the management and development of the default sales team and further expand the success of the ServiceLink suite of solutions, which include auction, field services, valuations, REO asset management, attorney/servicer reporting solutions, title and closing.

Kind Lending announced the appointment of Brett Stubbs as Chief Financial Officer, effective October 9, 2025. His appointment follows a planned transition with Gary Fabian, who has served as the company’s CFO since its founding and will retire at the end of the year after an accomplished, decades-long career in financial leadership.

Alpha7X, an agentic AI utility infrastructure that connects, validates and synchronizes mortgage data and eliminates redundant loan reviews, announced the appointments of three senior executives to its leadership team. The company named Mo Asady as chief technology officer, Mark Braden as chief strategy officer and Lynn Calahan as senior product director to accelerate adoption of its patent-pending platform.

Kind Lending has appointed Delfino Aguilar as Chief Production Officer, a role that expands his leadership to include oversight of Retail, Third-Party Origination (TPO), and all production divisions across the organization.