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28 products, and thinking outside the box to leverage these relationships and products to facilitate a world-class lending experience." In her new role, Costello will manage FormFree's internal and external vendor relationships with support from compliance leadership, internal stakeholders, and external auditors. She will collaborate across FormFree's network to mitigate vendor risk by ensuring compliance with regulatory and ethical requirements. MCT NAMES BEN ITKIN NEW NATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT) has appointed Ben Itkin as new National Sales Director. Itkin will leverage his hands-on experience from his previous senior role as Managing Director, to now lead a larger overall investment in the MCT sales team. Itkin's appointment is part and parcel of bigger investment in the sales team, which has more than doubled from six Sales Directors, to a team of 13 with the addition of four Capital Markets Technology Advisors and three Regional Account Executives. "With Tom Farmer's promotion to Chief Investment in Corporate Development Officer overseeing third-party collaborations, Ben will assume the leadership of our sales team," said Curtis Richins, President and CEO of MCT. "Ben in this role is exciting because he is widely known and widely respected throughout the industry. He is charismatic, insightful, solutions focused, and people enjoy doing business with him." e expanded sales team Itkin now leads will be tasked with growing newer MCT offerings, including MSRlive!, participation in BAM Marketplace, investor services, and MCTlive!, MCT's loan pipeline management software. "Even though we are coming into a much softer market than we have seen the last three years, success is still the expectation, and I look forward to continuing that upward trajectory," Itkin said. "We have a talented, young sales team, and I am excited about helping mentor and assist each of them to develop and flourish, ultimately maximizing their potential." Itkin brings nearly 30 years of experience in the mortgage industry and 13 years of experience at MCT as a resource in helping sales and organizational initiatives to his new role. He has been instrumental in expanding and working closely with MCT's team of trading analysts to provide hands-on service to clients as well as being instrumental as a sales resource including scratch and dent bidding efforts. LRES PROMOTES MARTHA ZAMORA TO DIRECTOR, ASSIGNMENT LRES Corporation has promoted Martha Zamora to the role of Director of Assignment, where she will be responsible for overseeing multiple assignment teams at LRES, in identifying and securing the most qualified and proximate vendor for each valuation order. Zamora will also manage team capacity and overall productivity. "I have been part of the LRES team for several years, and I am eager to apply my experience toward improving operational efficiency and reducing associated costs wherever possible," Zamora said. "e continually changing appraisal industry will continue to be at forefront of our near and long- term innovation projects." Zamora has been in the industry for more than 25 years, having spent the last 14 years at LRES in assignment leadership. Prior to LRES, Zamora worked at Ameriquest Mortgage for five-plus years in their Special Servicing Valuations Department, ordering and reviewing appraisals and Broker Price Opinions. "One of the key goals for this new, expanded role is to align the processes between our appraisal and evaluation assignment teams. Martha has been a strong appraisal leader for many years and was a natural choice to lead the integration of our two valuation teams," LRES SVP of Operations Jill Haro said. Movers & Shakers Got something to share with us? Send it to Editor@DSNews.com. @DSNEWSDAILY DS NEWS @DSNEWSDAILY FOLLOW. LIKE. RETWEET. REPEAT. Engage with DS News on social media to put the latest default servicing news, content, and strategies at your fingertips.

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