Speakers

Throughout his life, Orel Hershiser has been known as an outstanding baseball player. He has excelled at every level in which he has played and has captured baseball's highest honors - World Series Champion, World Series, American and National League Championship Series MVP,Cy Young Award, and Gold Glove Award.Most well-known for his legendary 1988 season, Hershiser pitched the Dodgers to a World Series championship, broke records and was named MVP and Sportsman of the Year among numerous other awards.

Senior Vice President Matt Martin Real Estate Mangement Ivan Choi is senior vice president for Matt Martin Real Estate Management, LLC, based in Arlington, Virginia. He is a key member of MMREM's executive and planning team and an expert in all facets of real estate, lending, default management services and business development. Founded in 2004, Matt Martin Real Estate Management (MMREM) is a national asset management and default services firm that deals with multiple federal agencies and mortgage servicers, investors and insurers.

Tony Isbell is president and founder of RealtyBid.com. He has been involved in the default real estate business on a national basis for nearly 20 years. Since 2001, Isbell has been a leader in the online real estate marketing industry. Under his leadership, RealtyBid.com has become one of the country's most successful online real estate websites, selling more than 28,000 homes exclusively online and being named as the #1 Real Estate Team in the United States two years in a row.

Ken Blevins, President and CEO of PMH Financial, has 20 years of mortgage and default servicing experience including collections, foreclosure/bankruptcy, loss mitigation and real estate disposition. Mr. Blevins has 14 years of direct operational experience in all facets of REO Asset Management. Mr. Blevins has managed large national REO Disposition contracts for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, CitiFinancial, GMAC.

Tom Moon has sold over 6,000 Orange County (OC) REOs. He is an OC native, who is married to and works with his high school sweetheart, Naomi. Both are graduates of Cal State University Sonoma. In 1981 they opened Pacific Moon Real Estate and then in 1994 founded REObroker.com, which is an exclusive, non profit, national network of experienced REO brokers. Tom has served six years on the REOMAC Board of Directors and is also on both the AREAA and NAREB OC Advisory Boards and is the Open Door Institute California state representative.

Todd Mobraten became SVP of Operations at USRES and its now wholly owned subsidiary, RES.NET. In 2007, Mobraten took on the duties of COO for each conglomerate, where he oversaw over 400 employees, and over 150 core servicing companies. By 2008, RES.NET's REO application had over half of the REO market share. Today, Mobraten's vision for RES.NET continues to expand, as the company has already revolutionized the way REO transactions are done, and Mobraten wants to do the same for Short Sale and Traditional transactions.

BirdRock Enterprises LLC founded in 2009 by Larry Bird who serves as president, is a real estate related consulting and services organization. BirdRock Enterprises specializes in strategic planning, real estate sales, risk management valuations, mortgage operations and default servicing. Included in the BirdRock family of services is Ambassador Escrow; an independent settlement company based in Orange County servicing the state of California.

Marie M. Chung, REO Director of REO Modern Realty Corp., is a pioneer in the ever-modernizing Real Estate Industry. She is a licensed real estate broker with extensive knowledge in foreclosures, REO dispositions and short sale negotiations. Since joining the Modern Realty Team, Marie has been instrumental in expanding the company and establishing its reputation as one of the top Bank-Owned Foreclosure Brokerages in the Country.

Jaysen Greenleaf is the Director of Client Relations & Business Development at Phoenix Asset Management. Jaysen joined Phoenix 5 years ago. During his first two years he was consistently in the top 5% of Asset Managers in performance in the organization. Jaysen was quickly promoted to a client team lead position as well as helping new clients with their policies and procedures development. Jaysen was promoted to his new position in early 2011. Jaysen is a member of NAHREP, AREAA, and is also on the educational committee for the Women in Default Servicing (WinDS) Association.

Ryan Hennessy joined Keystone Asset Management full-time as Vendor Management Supervisor in June, 2009 before being promoted to Business Integration Manager in November, 2010. Prior to his full-time status, he interned with Keystone, working in vendor management, pre-marketing, and property valuations, while completing his business degrees in Management and Marketing.Currently, Ryan's primary responsibilities include helping facilitate new business development.

Nancy Braun is Owner of Showcase Realty, LLC, a Certified Women Owned Business (WEBNC) and has been a leader in REO in NC and SC for over the past 15 years. She graduated from Cornell Univ. & SUNY Buffalo School of Law and is a proud member of NRBA, REOMAC, NAHREP, AREAA, REObroker, REONetwork, Open Door, CDPE, Master Broker for NRBA NC and a Neighborhood HUD Listing Broker, WBENC Voice Committee of NC, REOMAC Education Committee & REO4Kids.

Dorothy Buse is a licensed real estate Broker with 26 years experience in the Central Florida market and she holds a Florida appraisal license. With husband Fred and 11 employees, they have achieved the award of #1 National Coldwell Banker agent for units sold in 2009. Dorothy's career includes producing local TV and radio, and community relations/marketing as the owner of a public image agency.

Joyce Essex has been a Los Angeles area agent for over 24 years. Ranked the #1 agent in the Greater Los Angeles County in 2008, 2009 and 2010 she is among the top 1% of agents internationally having sold more than $750 million in real estate since 2005 worth of Lender/corporate owned real estate averaging 98% of B.P.O. value, with sales averaging in less than 60 days. She has been a top producer in Southern California and in her sales office.

Richard Johnston has been SVP at Bankers Asset Management since 2003 & is responsible for managing the liquidation of thousands of REO properties nationwide, along with oversight of BAM's Valuation Division in delivery of thousands of valuations each month for loan modifications, short sales, and due diligence. Richard's prior experience includes REO Manager for Crye-Leike Realtors & in a management capacity at World Savings & Loan Assoc. Richard is a seasoned real estate/mortgage professional with a broad spectrum of REO industry experience, with specialties in mortgage servicing, loss mitigation, default servicing, asset management, REO property management, real estate sales, liquidations, property valuations, property preservation, and outsourcing.

Louis Taylor is the Vendor Manager and one of the charter employees for Matt Martin Real Estate Management, LLC. Louis has over ten years' experience the Sales, Marketing and Financial Services Industry. His current responsibilities include the management and disposition of both REO and non-performing loans. Mr. Taylor also manages the Loss Mitigation Department and National Broker Network monitoring vendor performance and broker scorecards.

Kendra Todd is a nationally recognized real estate expert, broker, TV personality, author, motivational speaker, and the first woman and youngest competitor ever to win the popular NBC show The Apprentice. Kendra has worked on some of the most high-profile real estate transactions in the U.S., including the record-breaking $95 Million sale of Donald Trump's Palm Beach oceanfront estate Maison de L'Amitie. She is a recipient of Realtor Magazine's "Top 30 Under 30" award.

Travis Azevedo is an Agent out of Modesto, Ca who recently turned 30 years old. He has been in the REO business since 2008 and is driven to succeed. He started off as a selling agent and is now a top producer in his coverage area as a REO listing agent!

Gardner Story oversees quality and training for our broker network. With over 25 years of experience in the banking industry, Gardner has over 8 years of M&M HUD Contract experience. Gardner oversees the training and outreach of our Broker Network and various outreach programs. He reviews and qualifies all broker applications, as well as, visits brokers to conduct onsite audits of their operations and properties files. He also performs quality control of our inventory.

Mr. Pierce is the Marketing Manager for PEMCO Ltd, overseeing the Marketing and Outreach partnership with the Denver HUD Homeownership Center and the Marketing team within the Colorado office, responsible for all communication, education and marketing of HUD properties. As a subject matter expert in our evolving economic climate, Mr. Pierce consistently expands his knowledge base to effectively relay HUD's message to the REO community.

Meghan Alcamo has just 3 years experience in the REO industry and was trained by the top producer in the Detroit market who had over 25 years experience. Licensed in July 2008 Meghan has become one of the top listing agents in Michigan. Meghan traveled to REO conferences to make herself known to all top producers and Asset Managers. She proved herself by working hard and having all timelines beat and all work handed in before due dates.

Ms. McKay-Broughton has been with First Preston (and their affiliate company, HomeTelos, LP) since 1999. She has been a licensed Real Estate Agent in Texas since 1994 and active in the property management and real estate industry, for both multifamily and single family assets since 1982. She currently serves as First Preston's Vice President of Program Development, Director of Training and Director of Quality Control.

Stephanie Vitacco has over 23 years of real estate experience focused primarily in the San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley which is in the Northern part of Los Angeles . She has consistently been in the top 1% of Coldwell Banker Nationwide. In both 2009 & 2010 she earned the spot of the # 3 and #4 agent out of approx. 50,000 agents for CB in the entire United States . Ms. Vitacco is a member of NRBA, ODI, REO Connection as well as Equator certified.

Mr. Murray is a current leader in the Default Services industry. He is a member of many nationwide REO organizations and networks, through which he has advised, spoken and served on boards. He currently holds the position of President/CTO for Realty Pilot, where he oversees the ongoing development of Realty Pilot's suite of cutting-edge real estate solutions. In addition, Mr. Murray maintains his successful Key Realty offices.

Mike Samborn is the Broker owner of ALL STAR REAL ESTATE in Bay City Michigan and has been real estate for 19 yrs. With 17 yrs of REO experience. Mike and the ALL STAR team handle high volume REO in 7 counties with experience in both rural and urban Properties. The ALL STAR TEAM avgs over 400+ REO listing sales a year. Besides the Reo Dept Mike also has a Fee BPO dept and a property mngt/Rental division.

Mike Bjorkman has been a real estate agent for 20-years. He is also a real estate broker and investor. Mike has completed over 2,500 real estate transactions and has been recognized by RE/Max as a Hall of Fame Member, and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. He is also the co-owner and broker of record of the property management firm SCV Leasing in Santa Clarita, California.

Aurora Pucciarello has trained over 7,000 real estate agents nationwide in REO best practices through the development of an on-line training program called the "Accredited REO Agent" (A-REO) program. As founder of REO Training Solutions, Aurora designs and develops training programs for Freddie Mac's network of REO brokers as well as other major companies within the default industry. Her extensive background in the default servicing industry includes managing disposition of over 6,000 REO properties.

Under Eric, DFM saw sales and revenue increase leaps and bounds. Based in Rockville, MD, the company soon had six offices in the DC Metropolitan Area with over sixty employees and over $800 million in volume. In early 2009, Eric was asked to join a start-up MCM Capital as its Director of Business Development and help grow their whole loan strategy. Over the last four years, MCM Capital has participated in buying and liquidating over $1.8Billion in whole loans, with its current strategy focused in the non-performing residential whole loan space. Eric's current projects include investor relations and establishing nationwide vendor relationships.

Bruce has spent the last 20 plus years using data and analytics to help companies manage their portfolios and predictive modeling tools to assess potential risk. Bruce moved 2 years ago to the Data and Analytics side of CoreLogic to the Outsourcing and Technology side of the company. In my current role as a Strategist he blends his data expertise with all of the traditional default services. This combination allows CoreLogic to spot trend faster, propose multiple treatment options and move properties faster through the system.

Robert Tammaro is a real estate broker located in South Florida. He recently turned 24 years old and has been in the REO business for over 4 years. He's been licensed since 18 years old and is now well know throughout the default industry. He's also a top producer is his area having successfully sold hundreds of REO properties this year for many banks and servicers.

Diana Rosero began her real estate career at REMAX Grand Central in Tarzana, California in 2004. She quickly became part of the management team and has overseen hundreds of agents and thousands of transactions. Her passion for real estate and belief in homeowenrship lead her to create Short Sale Innovators, a transaction management company that successfully processes short sale transactions for real estate agents.

Allen Seelenbinder is the Vice President of Portfolio Retention/Strategic Alliance for Bank of America. As featured key note speaker, he annually addresses over 50,000 Realtors and Mortgage sales professionals regarding distressed assets and emerging opportunities in the industry. Allen has been in mortgage banking for 20 years, covering all facets of the business; including retail origination, sales force management, correspondent lending, product development, and secondary marketing.

Donald Maxwell is a Executive Vice President of 24 Asset Management, LLC, a company focused on third-party asset management. He has responsibilities for managing daily operations, client relationships and developing new business opportunities for the company.Prior to joining 24 Asset Management, Donald was Senior Vice President of Executive Asset Management and President of a consultant company called Asset Serve Management where he led efforts to increase the minority lending practices of several mortgage companies.

Mr. Chiodo is the Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder at KeyLink Asset Management. He is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the firm. His career in financial services spans almost two decades with long stops in the settlement, mortgage, real estate and default sectors. Mr. Chiodo has held positions at EDS Financial as National Sales Director and spent 8 years as the Vice President of Nations Direct Lender Services. KeyLink has recently introduced a "Dual Assignment" REO management platform and a "Task Based Agent Compensation Plan", both industry firsts.

Matthew Arbogast is Senior Asset Manager with Residential Mortgage Solution (RMS) headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. He comes to the company with over 20 years of general business, accounting and REO real estate experience. After 12 years as the Managing Partner of a large, family-owned CPA firm, he was presented with a unique opportunity to enter the REO Real Estate field where he was Controller of a large multi-location Real Estate brokerage. He went on to earn his own Real Estate license and operate his own successful REO Real Estate Brokerage Business.

Pete Nyiri has been working in the Real Estate Industry since he obtained his sales person license in 1969. He opened Top Producers Realty & REO, a Veteran-Owned Business, in January of 2002. At its peak in 2008, Top Producers Realty & REO had a support staff of 30+ (including selling agents) which allowed it to reach a gross sales volume of over 200M for the year. Top Producers has a current organizational capacity of approximately 700 sales per year.

Tim Burrell's wide range of experience and education makes him an engaging speaker. A Realtor since 1979, he has been selling REOs and doing short sales since 1993, in California and North Carolina. He has written the definitive book on real estate negotiating and a nationally recognized book on short sales. He graduated from UCLA Law School and has been licensed as a California Attorney since 1973. As a member of the CyberStars, he is one of top agents on the use of technology in real estate.

Roger Beane is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of LRES Corporation. Mr. Beane leads an extraordinary team of professionals committed to bring real-world solutions impacting the operational efficiency and institutional profitability of LRES client organizations. With a deep understanding of the banking, real estate finance and default management sectors, Roger Beane is a proven leader with extensive executive management experience, a solid understanding of business and an insightful participant in panel discussions, conferences and focus groups.

Having begun her real estate career in 1976, Marla Webb has experienced a wide variety of challenging market cycles. Her business operations have included full-service residential and commercial brokerage as a company owner, securities sales, and land development. Since the late 1980's, she has been engaged almost exclusively in complex national initiatives that manage and market (M&M) multi-billion dollar portfolios of REO held by government entities and lending institutions.