Execs On The Move

MBA Education, the award-winning education division of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), recognized 23 individuals who earned the Commercial Certified Mortgage Servicer (CCMS®) designation. The 2024 class is the largest graduating class in program history.

Embrace Home Loans, a top-ranked national mortgage lender, announced that Greg Dalgarno has been promoted from sales manager to director of builder services. Based in Timonium, Maryland, Dalgarno will focus on growing Embrace’s new construction home lending business throughout the East Coast by forming partnerships with homebuilders and recruiting loan officers who specialize in new home construction. Dalgarno expects to hire 15 to 20 new loan officers over the next year.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) announced that Owen Lee, Chief Executive Officer at Success Mortgage Partners, Inc., (SMP) has been nominated to serve as MBA’s Vice Chairman for the 2025 membership year.

ServiceLink, a provider of tech-enabled mortgage services for all phases of the home lending lifecycle, welcomes Nate Johnson, Vice President, National Sales Executive, to its origination division.

Optimal Blue announced the appointment of Joe Tyrrell as CEO. Tyrrell succeeds interim CEO Scott Smith of Optimal Blue’s parent company, Constellation Software Inc.

Incenter, a family of companies dedicated to improving the performance of lenders and depositories, has promoted Sara Parrish to Chief Operating Officer. She will also remain President of Incenter company CampusDoor, where her focus on operational excellence, creativity, and team empowerment has propelled new growth since she took the reins in 2022.

Move Concierge, a service that connects home services and provides utility support for homebuyers, has made two key hires to its leadership team as part of its recent rebrand and expansion. The company has welcomed Jason Lindwall as President and Sajag Patel as Chief Revenue Officer.

Mortgage Cadence, a subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), announced that Jeff Mattice has joined the company as Head of New Logo Sales.

Planet Home Lending, a national mortgage lender, servicer, and asset manager, has hired Bill Shuler as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer. With more than 25 years in the financial services industry and decades of mortgage leadership, Shuler will drive Planet’s technological growth and enhance its operational efficiency.

Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter) announced the appointment of Vikas Rao as deputy chief product officer. Reporting directly to Chief Product Officer Stephanie Durflinger, Rao is charged with overseeing enhancements to the Empower® loan origination system (LOS) and establishing Dark Matter’s developer community, which will help lenders embed automation deeper in their origination workflows and more tightly integrate their systems using open application programming interfaces (APIs) and widgets.