Luis Maizel is HNMA’s co-founder and Chairman of the Board. Mr. Maizel’s vision of overcoming the Hispanic homeownership hurdles was the genesis for HNMA. As Chairman, Mr. Maizel is intimately involved in developing and directing HNMA’ s overall strategy.

Mr. Maizel is currently the Senior Managing Director and Investment Group Member for LM Capital, LLC, one of the largest Hispanic-owned asset management firms in the US. He is co-founder of the firm and its parent, LM Advisors. Born and raised in Mexico City, Mr. Maizel has been active in the global fixed-income market since 1984. His experience includes serving as vice president of finance for Grupoventas, S.A.; faculty member at the Harvard Business School; and president of Industrial Kuick, S.A. After structuring a favorable buy-out of Kuick in 1984, Mr. Maizel relocated to San Diego, California. Mr. Maizel has an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from National University of Mexico in 1971 and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1974, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, the highest academic honor.

Leonardo Simpser is HNMA’s co-Founder and Managing Director. He is also the Chief Executive Officer at the HNMA Funding Company from where he leads the strategic direction and oversees operations for the Company.

Previously, Leonardo was the COO of Señor Snacks, a US-based Hispanic food company. Before then he was a Senior Analyst at Deutsche Bank doing Latin American Equity Research, covering a variety of sectors. Leonardo has been involved in a variety of real estate projects, primarily in Mexico, spanning from low income housing to commercial and industrial. He advises/sits on the boards of a handful of growing companies. Leonardo was born in Mexico and graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E in Finance from the Wharton School and a B.A. with distinction in Political Economy from the College of Arts and Sciences, both from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Master in Business Administration from Stanford University. In 2005, Leonardo was awarded the Eagle Award to recognize his leadership achievements within the Hispanic Community.

Jose Tolosa is a Senior Vice President at HNMA. He is also the Chief Operating Officer at the HNMA Funding Company from where he manages day to day operations of the Company.

Previous to his position at HNMA, Jose was a Principal at The Parthenon Group, a strategy consulting firm based in Boston, MA, where he advised a number of companies on strategic issues, with particular focus on the financial services industry. Previously Jose was an Assistant Vice-President in the Corporate Finance Department for Claxson Interactive Group, Inc., a multi-media entertainment company in Latin America, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prior to Claxson, he was a Sr. Associate in the Corporate Finance Department of its predecessor, El Sitio, Inc., based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before his experience in Argentina, Mr. Tolosa was a financial analyst in the Latin American Investment Banking Division for Bear, Stearns and Co., Inc., in New York. Jose was born and raised in Puerto Rico, graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. and a double major in Accounting and Finance from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and he holds a Master in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Julian Mellicovsky is a Senior Vice President at HNMA. Within his position Julian is responsible for overseeing HNMA's interests in ILUMINA, a retail mortgage origination company jointly owned by HNMA and Wells Fargo.

Prior to joining HNMA, he worked with Fresh Ventures LLC, a Florida based Investment Company focusing on retail investments. Prior to Fresh Ventures LLC, Julian worked for numerous start ups and corporations in Latin America and the US including, Easy Group, Dolphin Interventures, and Buenos Aires based Irsa Group (NYSE:IRS; NASDAQ:CRESY; NASDAQ:APSA), a diversified real estate and mortgage banking conglomerate, and former outside manager for George Soros. During his tenure at Irsa Group, Julian participated in or led several successful private equity investments. Julian is originally from Argentina and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, from Universidad Di Tella and he holds an MBA from the FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

 

Ron Jauregui is a Senior Vice President for Community Alliances at HNMA. In that capacity, he crafts HNMA’s relationships with Latino organizations, housing intermediaries, trade associations, philanthropic foundations, public policy makers and consumer advocates.

Mr. Jauregui was formerly the Director of HOGAR (Hispanic Ownership, a Growing American Reality), the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Latino Homeownership Initiative. Prior to that, he served as a member of HOGAR’s first Fellowship Class of Housing Leaders. Previously, Ron originated mortgages for the Bank of America where he also served as a founding member of that Bank’s Spanish Language pilot Fulfillment Team. Previously he was awarded a non-partisan appointment as a Community Builder Fellow at the U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development in Santa Ana, California. His most recent Presidential Appointment occurred during the Clinton Administration wherein he served as an Advisor for Hispanic Affairs at the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Ron Jauregui was born and raised in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, graduated with a BA in US/Mexico Affairs from Claremont Men’s College and he holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles. The Mortgage Bankers Association recently granted him his Accredited Mortgage Professional credential and he is also a graduate of the MBA’s Future Leaders Program.
 

Ann Schnare
Dr. Ann B. Schnare is President and Founder of AB Schnare Associates, an independent consulting firm specializing in housing and mortgage finance, consumer credit, fair lending, public policy development and regulatory support. She also serves as Chair of the Center for Housing Policy. Prior to starting her own firm, Dr. Schnare was Senior Vice President for Corporate Relations and Vice President for Financial Research and Housing Economics at Freddie Mac. She has held a number of senior management positions in the consulting industry, including Director of the Center for Public Finance and Housing at the Urban Institute. Dr. Schnare holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and a BA, summa cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis.

John Gibbons
John Gibbons is a very experienced professional within the mortgage industry. He currently serves as Overture Technologies Vice-Chairman, from where he manages strategy and business development. Prior to Overture, Mr. Gibbons served as Chief Financial Officer at Freddie Mac, responsible for all aspects of corporate reporting and controls, risk oversight, data quality and integrity, planning, budgeting, administration, financial research and investor relations. Under his direction, the control system at Freddie Mac won national recognition and the Treasury function was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Award. Mr. Gibbons led the effort to reduce the corporation’s reliance on securitization financing and expand portfolio lending, designed and implemented a corporate capital allocation system to integrate risk and return decisions, and established a department of market risk oversight. Prior to serving as CFO, John was Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations and Assistant to the Chairman at Freddie Mac, supervising the press and government relations functions.

Before joining Freddie Mac, Mr. Gibbons worked as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch covering government and supranational agencies, government-sponsored enterprises, banks and thrifts. John joined Merrill Lynch from Standard & Poor’s, where he was instrumental in establishing criteria for the rating of mortgage- and asset-backed securities. He holds a BA from Harvard College, a PhD from the Government Department from Harvard University, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill Kelvie
Overture’s founder and CEO, was Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Executive Vice President of Fannie Mae for over 10 years. Under his leadership, Fannie Mae led a mortgage industry transformation, developing web-delivered, instant loan approvals. This keystone of online loan approval is tied to a suite of supporting systems in loan processing, pricing and delivery, automated underwriting, loss mitigation, credit modeling, and integration with legacy systems. Through the technology implemented by Bill and his team, the cost of originating a loan dropped by 60-70% for most lenders and approval times dropped from 30 days to 30 minutes or less.

Prior to Fannie Mae, Bill was a partner with Nolan, Norton & Company. As Managing Partner of their New York office, which he opened in 1986, he developed information technology strategies for leading investment and money center banks in the United States and Europe. Before joining Nolan, Norton & Company, he designed and implemented large application systems for the Dexter Corporation and The Travelers. Bill also serves on the boards of Homestore.com, an Internet corporation that is the leader in residential real estate, and Viant, a leading Web development company.

Robert Van Order
From 1987 until 2002 Robert Van Order was Chief Economist of Freddie Mac, where he was involved in a wide range of financial and mortgage market research and analysis. He has taught at UCLA, Purdue University, the University of Southern California, Queens University in Canada, American University in Washington, D.C., Ohio State University, George Washington University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C, and he has worked at U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has consulted on mortgage markets in Sri Lanka, India, Latvia, Russia, Ghana, Nicaragua, Brazil, Egypt, Colombia, Poland and Pakistan. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Mortgage Company in Russia and is teaching at the University of Michigan and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Michael Goldberg
Michael A. Goldberg is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Credit Facilitator Solutions, LLC a company dedicated to assisting financial institutions model, evaluate and price mortgage credit-risk exposure. Dr. Goldberg has over 20 years experience in modeling credit risk including 17 years at Fannie Mae where, as Vice President for Financial Analysis, he was responsible for designing and developing Fannie Mae’s first generation of credit-risk models. Prior to Fannie Mae, he was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and an Assistant Professor of Finance at Indiana University. He has published numerous papers in the fields of asset pricing and financial institutions and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Michigan and M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in finance from Northwestern University.

   




 

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