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150 MILLION DOLLAR CLUB OLEG TKACH Branch manager and senior loan officer GUILD MORTGAGE Loan volume: $157 million Number of loans: 627
Beginning his career as a loan officer in 2005, Oleg Tkach is currently a branch manager and senior loan officer at Guild Mortgage. In addition, he serves as a business development coach at The Core Training, where he coaches some of the nation’s best Realtors and mortgage professionals. Highly sought after by real estate agents, investors, clients and colleagues for his mortgage financing expertise, Tkach operates on a philosophy of “delivering expectation-exceeding results well before the deadline.” His drive to build trusted relationships with his real estate partners, investors and clients has been critical to his success, and he continually strives to find better systems for both himself and his team.
PATRICK RUFFNER Branch manager GUARANTEED RATE Loan volume: $179 million Number of loans: 540
Patrick Ruffner has been with Guaranteed Rate since 2009 and now serves as a branch manager. He has been a member of the company’s President’s Club for the past four years and joined the Chairman’s Circle in 2015. Ruffner has lived in Chicago his entire life, including college, when he studied biology at Benedictine University in suburban Chicago.
JASON SHANNON Sales manager and team leader CONTOUR MORTGAGE Loan volume: $222 million Number of loans: 394
During his career, Jason Shannon has closed thousands of loans thanks to his upfront nature and ability to find creative solutions for his clients. At Contour Mortgage, Shannon employs a one-on-one, hands-on approach, working directly with clients from pre-approval through closing. As a lifelong New York resident, Shannon is familiar with the Nassau, Suffolk and Queens County areas, which has allowed him to better assist local clients in finding the best deal. “Buying a home is a complex process with a lot of behind-the-scenes things that need to go just right for a successful and on-time closing to take place,” he says. “With my years of experience and a close relationship with many of the area’s top real estate professionals, I’m often in a position to offer my clients the best possible advice. We follow the secondary mortgage market and breaking economic news. This allows me to provide crucial insight in regard to locking in the lowest possible interest rate. By knowing when to lock and how best to structure a loan, we have saved our borrowers literally hundreds of thousands of dollars cumulatively.”
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