Citywide Home Mortgage Adds Vaccaro As EVP, Sales

National mortgage lender Citywide Home Mortgage, a Rate company, has named mortgage origination veteran Ed Vaccaro as Executive Vice President, Sales.

Vaccaro will join the Citywide leadership team and be charged with helping to drive growth nationwide in his role.

Vaccaro brings 35+ years of mortgage lending experience to Citywide, having served in leadership as well as production roles with a number of successful lenders. He was most recently an Executive Vice President with a leading Southern California lending company. He has also held roles as a Chief Production Officer with another Southern California based lender, where he helped increase monthly funding more than 300%, and as VP, Regional Manager with another national lending firm. He has also held roles as a Senior Vice President with two of the world’s largest depositories, where he helped grow his region for each to over $2 billion in annual funding.

Vaccaro’s penchant for innovation also drove him to create and patent The Hydro Pet, a self-cleaning, automatically-refreshing water bowl for pets, available at several national retail stores, including Home Depot, Walmart and Ace Hardware.

“At Citywide, we’re building something different — something lasting,” said Citywide CEO & President John Cady. “We’re combining a culture-first foundation with elite execution, and Ed Vaccaro shares that exact vision. He’s the kind of leader who makes people better, raises the standard, and moves the needle. With him on board, we’re not just growing — we’re raising the bar for what a mortgage company should be.”

Citywide, originally founded in Utah as Citywide Home Loans in 1998, established its reputation early on as a strong regional lender. The company joined with national lending power Rate in 2021, and shortly thereafter became Citywide Home Mortgage. The lender has leaned on a unique, branch model designed for collaborative leaders hungry to grow and feel a part of something bigger. To do so, Citywide grants an unusually wide amount of latitude to its partners and allows them to avoid hierarchical bottlenecks in decision-making.