SPECIAL REPORT
HOT 100 KEN PERRY Founder and president KNOWLEDGE COOP
Ken Perry entered the mortgage industry as a loan originator for a national company in Pleasanton, California. He quickly became the company’s top producer and was asked to take a training leadership position to onboard branches throughout the western half of the US. In 2000, Perry transferred to the Pacific Northwest to take a sales job with a major wholesale lender, which gave him the opportunity to call on originators throughout the Portland market. Seeing the significant need for originator training, Perry left his job in 2003 to start Broker Knowledge Group. That September, he was invited to speak at a conference, which led to additional speaking engagements throughout the country. In 2005, Broker Knowledge Group became the first private company to receive approval for teaching live continuing education classes in Oregon. With the passage of the SAFE Act in 2008, these classes became required in every state, and Broker Knowledge Group was one of the first providers. In December 2011, Perry attended a technology conference in Las Vegas that rewrote the future of his business. In 2012, he launched the Knowledge Coop, a social learning system that allows companies to upload and assign documents, videos, and notes to grow their companies through collaboration and education. Perry also created a company initiative to donate 10% of the purchases of Knowledge Coop’s seven- or eight-hour CE courses from CoopCares.com to Forever Changed International. Perry himself travels to Guatemala City twice a year on mission trips with the organization.
BENJAMIN MADICK Co-founder and COO MATIC
In 2014, Ben Madick co-founded Matic, a technology-driven insurance agency focused on helping lenders and loan officers better integrate homeowner’s insurance into the lending process. The company has steadily grown since 2016 to become the market leader in lender and servicer distribution of HOI. In the last 12 months, Madick and his team have forged partnerships with more than 12 of the nation’s top-rated insurance carriers, including Nationwide, Progressive, National General Insurance and Safeco. Licensed in all 50 states, Matic has delivered more than 300,000 quotes to the customers of well-known lenders and servicers, allowing these companies to close loans faster and reduce origination costs while improving the borrower experience by dramatically simplifying the often-confusing HOI process. Outside of Matic, Madick is an active participant in the MBA, CMBA and TMBA, a frequent speaker at industry events, and a regular contributor to industry publications. He also co-founded Mortgage Quality Management & Research [MQMR], a leading provider of mortgage risk management services. He continues to serve as a strategic advisor to the company, which conducts more than 1,500 annual reviews of originators, sub-servicers, document custodians and vendors. Prior to founding MQMR in 2011, Madick spent five years with Bank of America’s correspondent lending division, managing relationships with large independent mortgage lenders throughout the country.
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CHAD GOMOLL Senior vice president, national production INLANTA MORTGAGE
In November 2016, Chad Gomoll took on the role of SVP of national production at Inlanta Mortgage, leading the independent mortgage banker’s efforts to grow and gain market share. Since he took the job, the company has added 14 new branches and four new states. In addition, Gomoll added three new regional vice presidents and a national trainer to the team. Prior to this role, Gomoll spent six years with Genworth Mortgage Insurance, where he grew one of its top regions and added eight out of the 11 account managers for the region. In 2016, the region placed more than $5 billion worth of mortgage insurance. Gomoll is an active member of the MBA’s secondary committee of RESBOG. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Dallas MBA from 2012 to 2015 and was selected as a recipient of the Whooten Scholarship for the MBA’s Future Leaders Program. “As a future leader, the focus on the industry and its members has been at the forefront in guiding my career,” Gomoll says. As part of the diversity & inclusion initiative at Inlanta Mortgage, he and his team have created a new Loan Officer Apprentice program to introduce new LOs to the business.