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24 S E R V I C E R S AHP SERVICING ANNOUNCES TIM GILLIS AS NEW PRESIDENT AHP Servicing, a nationwide servicer of high-touch residential mortgages, announced the appointment of Tim Gillis as the organization's next President. "We are thrilled to have Tim lead AHP Servicing's continued growth," said Jorge Newbery, Founder and CEO of AHP Servicing. "Tim is a visionary who is decisive, hard- working, and an out-of-the-box thinker. His focus on obtaining mutually beneficial results will create positive outcomes for AHP, our team, our investors, and borrowers. Gillis brings 25 years' lending and servicing experience to the country's only crowd-funded residential loan servicer. Prior to initially joining AHP Servicing in June as the SVP of Business Development, Gillis held executive positions providing products and services to hedge fund and capital market clients. Gillis is honored and excited at the opportunity to create an entrepreneurial organization that focuses on ownership and accountability. "I look forward to working with the AHP Team to grow this dynamic, nimble company into a market leader," Gillis said. HOMESPIRE MORTGAGE ADDS SCOTT VALLETTI AS VP OF MORTGAGE SERVICING Homespire Mortgage (HMC), one of the nation's fastest growing residential mortgage lenders, announced Scott Valletti has joined its team as VP of Mortgage Servicing, providing leadership and advancement of its loan servicing program. Prompted by recent industry shifts and significant increases in new purchase loan volume, Homespire is growing its loan-servicing capabilities to further support its borrowers' needs, providing affordable loan options now across 36 states. Movers & Shakers Got something to share with us? Send it to Editor@DSNews.com. On September 25, Dr. Shawn Bucholtz departed HUD's American Housing Survey (AHS) to become Chief Data Officer at the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The change marked the end of a decade-long stint for Bu- choltz at the AHS. In a statement, Bucholtz said, "It has been my honor to oversee the AHS for the past decade. Throughout this time, we conducted five AHS's, and I am most proud of the various accomplishments to improve the AHS user ex- perience, including the AHS Table Creator, the AHS web-based Codebook, the 20+ AHS Help Guides, and the 15+ AHS topical modules." Bucholtz served as Director of the Housing and Demographic Analysis Division at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Devel- opment Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). He oversaw HUD's housing market surveys program, including the Amer- ican Housing Survey and the Rental Housing Finance Survey. He previously served as Branch Chief for Planning and Analysis at the Farm Service Agency and as an economist and geographer at the Economics Research Service, both in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has a B.S. degree in public resource manage- ment from Michigan State University, an M.S. degree in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in computational social science from George Mason University. "It has been my honor to oversee the AHS for the past decade. Throughout this time, we conducted five AHS's, and I am most proud of the various accomplishments to improve the AHS user experience, including the AHS Table Creator, the AHS web-based Codebook, the 20+ AHS Help Guides, and the 15+ AHS topical modules." — Dr. Shawn Bucholtz, Chief Data Officer at the Federal Housing Finance Agency S P O T L I G H T P R O F I L E G O V E R N M E N T Dr. Shawn J. Bucholtz Departs HUD for FHFA