Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsWorking out of MountainView�s New York office, Derek Katz is primarily responsible for sourcing residential whole loan portfolios and identifying trading opportunities for the MountainView Mortgage Opportunities Funds. Mr. Katz also works with clients on the valuation, sale and purchase of residential mortgage servicing rights portfolios. In this role, Derek acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers and provides insight on the secondary residential mortgage market. Before joining MountainView in 2008, Derek was a director in the Asset Securitization and Finance Group at Natixis Capital Markets and was responsible for all aspects of whole loan and mortgage-backed finance, including the origination and placement of mortgage-backed securities, transaction management and contract finance, portfolio and servicing oversight, and due diligence management. Prior to joining Natixis, he was a vice president in the Mortgage Trading and Finance Group at Credit Suisse First Boston, working primarily on subprime and second-lien whole loan trades and securitizations. Before joining Credit Suisse, Derek was a vice president in the Asset-Backed Securitization and Finance Group at UBS/Paine Webber, where he concentrated on auto leases, credit card receivables, aircraft leases, franchise loans, and mortgages. He earned a bachelor�s degree from Princeton University and holds Series 7 and 63 securities licenses.
Danvers Residential Recovery Fund II is a private real estate investment fund which acquires re-performing and sub performing whole residential mortgage loans. Since 2008 Mr. Brandenburg has managed four closed-end funds specializing in the purchase and resolution of distressed residential real estate assets in the Western United States which have acquired and resolved $260m (unpaid balance) in residential loans. He oversees the valuation, acquisition, and resolution of all loans and REO held in the Fund. Mr. Brandenburg has worked as an executive in the mortgage banking industry for 26 years.
Lisa Weaver, CMB, is the Senior Vice President of ISGN, a leading provider of technology solutions for the mortgage industry.Weaver has more than 25 years of mortgage industry experience and is the executive responsible for the Professional Services practice, Technology Innovation and Industry Relations.� Ms. Weaver is the architect of the patent-pending CFPB Risk Check™, which won the 2014� Progress in Lending Innovation award and Mock Audit™, winner of the Mortgage Technology 2013 Release of the Year. Previously, she held executive and management roles at Freddie Mac, OneWest Bank, and General Electric .� Weaver is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) with a rich understanding spanning the entire mortgage ecosystem with GE Six Sigma and Lean Sigma BlackBelt from Villanova University. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Friends University, Kansas.
Mr. Furlong joined MIAC in April 2010 and is the Director of its Due Diligence Group.� He has over 24 years of experience within the banking industry. During his time at MIAC, Mr. Furlong managed over 100 due diligence projects in 33 states which performed loan underwriting and review processes which supplied analytical information for the FDIC in order to structure loss share agreements.Additionally, Mr. Furlong has lead the development of MIAC�s VeriFiTM system which is a comprehensive due diligence suite for the banking and lending industries. VeriFi� customizes the loan file review process to the user�s exact specifications and processes a variety of verifications, compliance testing, and underwriting reviews which will assist in quantifying the risks associated with loan files.Mr. Furlong has completed portfolio valuations on a variety of commercial, auto loan, credit card, student loan, and reverse mortgage whole loan and securitization valuations.Prior to joining MIAC, Mr. Furlong was a Chief Operating Officer of Jacobs Capital Partners, where he oversaw a multi-divisional and multi-state commercial lending and development firm.� During his tenure at Jacobs Capital Partners, he managed a large commercial loan portfolio consisting of large multi-family, commercial income, and acquisition and development properties.Prior to joining Jacobs Capital Partners, Joe was Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Gulfcoast Mortgage Solutions, where he oversaw the organization�s loan production, underwriting, and overall portfolio management.Mr. Furlong also was the President and Chief Lending Officer of First Florida Financial Ltd, Incorporated where he developed and successfully managed a consumer and residential lending firm.� Under his guidance, First Florida Financial Ltd, Inc. was rated the third fastest growing companies on the west coast of Florida.
Kathalin Carvalho is the vice president of compliance for Tampa, Fla.-based ProVest, a nationwide legal services firm specializing in managing the delivery of legal documents and related foreclosure services. Carvalho ensures that ProVest employees and agents adopt appropriate standards, practices and internal controls. Carvalho is a board certified criminal defense investigator and serves as co-chair of the ACAMS Central Florida Chapter. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
Carl Turro is vice president of ProVest.
Mike Waltz is a Senior Vice President in the Special Loan Group at Associated Bank, a Wisconsin-based bank with $22B in assets and branches across Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. Mike manages a team of workout officers across the bank�s footprint and also has responsibilities over the commercial REO portfolio and the charge-off recovery and SBA workout teams. Mike started his banking career in 2001 with Fifth Third Bank in Grand Rapids, MI. He started as a workout officer and moved into a team lead position in the Special Assets Group. During his six years at Fifth Third Mike also managed the commercial loan sale process for the bank and successfully closed over 30 sales of distressed commercial loan portfolios. Mike joined Associated Bank in 2008 as a team lead in the Special Loan Group. Over the past five years his responsibilities have grown to include the commercial note sale process.
Mark Chrisman is the founder and CEO of Chicago-based Real Integrated Technology LLC. For more information, visit www.rit-mobile.com.
Diana Olick is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, currently serving as CNBC's real estate correspondent as well as the author of the "Realty Check" blog on CNBC.com. She also contributes her real estate expertise to NBC's "Today" and "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams." Prior to joining CNBC in 2002, Olick spent seven years as a correspondent for CBS News. She has a B.A. in comparative literature with a minor in soviet studies from Columbia College in New York and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Olick began her career as a local news reporter at WABI-TV in Bangor, ME, WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, MI and KIRO-TV in Seattle WA. She joined CBS in 1994 as a New York-based correspondent for the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" and "The Early Show." She also contributed pieces to "48 Hours" and "Sunday Morning." During that time, she covered such stories as the World Trade Center conspiracy trial and the Boston abortion clinic shooting. In 1995, Olick was assigned to cover the Midwest as a Dallas bureau correspondent. In the three years she was there, she covered all forms of natural disaster, including the crash of TWA Flight 800, the JonBenet Ramsey murder mystery, and was the exclusive correspondent for the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols. During that time, she also took a temporary assignment in CBS' Moscow bureau, where she chronicled the brief presidential campaign of Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1998, Olick was reassigned to the New York bureau and then immediately posted to Bahrain for the buildup to a possible second Gulf War. A year later, she went to Albania to cover the US military buildup during the conflict in Kosovo. Upon her return, Olick was reassigned to CBS' Washington bureau and the Capitol Hill beat. During Campaign 2000, Olick covered the Senate campaign of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and later joined the Bush campaign as a special correspondent for "The Early Show." That fall, she was named Supreme Court correspondent; her first case was Bush v. Gore.





