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contributors Get to know the experts and insiders behind this issue. JOHN ALKIRE is EVP at Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, where he oversees operational aspects of the servicing business, including technology deployment, collections, foreclosure, bankruptcy, loan administration, customer service, and REO activities. He is responsible for the company's profit and loss (P&L) performance, for generating new servicing business, maintaining relationships with the rating agencies, and managing warehouse lines and advance facilities. A servicing industry veteran, he became Carrington Mortgage Services' first employee in May 2007 and was instrumental in directing the company's entrance into the mortgage servicing industry. 4 STEVE CAMPBELL is the chief information officer for ProVest, a Tampa, Floridabased legal support services firm that provides service of process and related foreclosure services to financial institutions, law firms, and insurance companies nationwide. He has more than 25 years of IT management experience and is responsible for overseeing all of the company's technological efforts, including managing the planning and deployment of its technology infrastructure. Prior to joining ProVest, he was chief information officer of Titanium Holdings, Inc., where he led all aspects of technology operations for more than four years. SANDRA LANE has extensive experience covering the default servicing industry. She contributed regularly to DS News' predecessor, REO Magazine, from 2004 to 2006, covering local market trends, the effects of macroeconomic shifts on market conditions, and "big-picture" analyses of industrydriving indicators. But her understanding of the mortgage and real estate business extends even beyond those pre-crisis days. She is a former real estate broker and grew up in what she calls "a real estate family." A journalism graduate of the University of North Texas, she has written for various newspapers, trade journals, and major corporations. PAUL A. LEONARD directs the California operations of the Center for Responsible Lending. He was previously an independent policy consultant working on housing, community development and social welfare issues. His research topics included the effectiveness of national housing preservation policies and financial modernization legislation. His clients included the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Treasury, the Low Income Investment Fund, the MacArthur Foundation, Bank of America, and PolicyLink. He also served as acting assistant secretary for policy development and research and deputy assistant secretary for policy development at HUD. RACHEL OPATIK is an attorney with the creditors' rights firm Houser & Allison, APC, in San Diego. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 2001 and obtained her Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law in 2006. While in law school, she clerked for an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission administrative law judge. She also received the State Bar of California Wiley M. Manual Award for her pro bono legal work with the California Innocence Project and San Diego Legal Aid Society. She was admitted to practice law in the state of California in June 2006. FRED ZAKULA is VP of Midwest operations for Tampa, Florida-based ProVest, a nationwide legal services firm that specializes in managing the delivery of legal documents and related foreclosure services. He manages ProVest's Chicago office and oversees delivery of the company's products throughout the Midwest region, covering Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin. Prior to joining ProVest, he spent three years with First American Default Services as a VP, managing relationships with mortgage servicing outsourcers for foreclosure, bankruptcy, claims, and field services operations.

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