SPECIAL REPORT
ELITE WOMEN 2017 PAULA WHITE Regional vice president McLean Mortgage Corporation
Paula White has been a leader at McLean Mortgage Corporation for more than seven years; during that time, she has built a sales team that has closed over a billion dollars in mortgages, more than 90% of which was purchase production. White has been a McLean President’s Club member for the past seven years, and during her 25 years of residential lending experience, she has provided solutions for thousands of clients within the Washington, DC, metro area. White has also helped support the careers of others by hiring, training and mentoring numerous loan officers, sales managers and other industry personnel. Her specialty is working with and educating real estate agents, and this has led her to train thousands of agents as a Mortgage Mastery sales instructor over the past 15 years, and more recently as a Virginia board-certified real estate license instructor. In addition to White’s professional commitments, she remains heavily engaged within her community, including involvement with the Virginia Homicide Investigators Association.
JENNIFER FOUNTAIN Senior vice president of due diligence Altavera Mortgage Services
A residential mortgage lending veteran of more than three decades, Jennifer Fountain’s career has been distinguished by its emphasis on credit and underwriting policy, operations, due diligence, management and training. She currently serves as senior vice president of due diligence for Altavera Mortgage Services, where she was hired in 2016 to develop and launch a new closed-loan file review service. In the past year, Fountain has grown this division to become one of Altavera’s most profitable business lines – one that has seen a 142% increase in volume since its launch. Fountain also spearheaded Altavera’s recognition by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings as an approved third-party due diligence provider for US residential mortgage-backed securities. Prior to joining Altavera, Fountain held leadership positions with Redwood Trust and Aurora Loan Services. In both of these roles, she was responsible for overseeing multiple review teams and played an essential role in helping to manage company risk. She served as the escalation point for credit-risk questions related to loan programs and guidelines, exception requests, and appraisal variances, and collaborated closely with both companies’ policy managers and compliance officers to identify and recommend credit policy and underwriting guideline revisions.
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BETH O’BRIEN President and CEO CoreVest American Finance
Beth O’Brien is the founder and CEO of CoreVest American Finance, a private lender to residential real estate investors. CoreVest, originally known as Colony American Finance, was founded in 2014 to address the unique needs of investors in the single-family rental and bridge loan space who were not served well by either commercial or residential products. Under O’Brien’s leadership, CoreVest has closed more than $2.5 billion in loans and won the NREI/IMN Award in 2016 for innovation by a non-bank lender. Previously, O’Brien was executive vice president at Auction.com, where she ran residential capital markets, and was president of AuctionFinance.com, where she oversaw the financing strategy for the platform. In that capacity, she managed single-family and multi-family loan sales, and founded a proprietary private lender geared at the investor market. O’Brien also previously worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Combined, she has more than 25 years of experience in almost every aspect of the mortgage industry as both a principal and an advisor, and she has overseen more than $15 billion in transactions.