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31 "Pretium's leadership position enables us to attract phenomenal talent like Adolfo," said Don Mullen, CEO of Pretium and Founder of Progress Residential. "As Progress Residential enters its next phase of innovation, I am thrilled to welcome Adolfo as CEO." Most recently, Villagomez served as President of HomeDepot.com and CMO for U.S. Retail at The Home Depot. During the pandemic, Villagomez's customer-focused business strategy led to double-digit growth in sales and revenue for the home retailer. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Villagomez was a Partner at McKinsey and Company, where he led its North America Marketing and Sales Practice. He began his career at DuPont, in its Teflon and Fluoroproducts businesses. RISKSPAN NAMES DANIEL FLEISHMAN MANAGING DIRECTOR OF MSR RiskSpan has appointed Daniel Fleishman as Managing Director within its Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR) unit. Fleishman's career includes 17 years at BlackRock where he worked extensively with banks, mortgage companies, and REITs to support MSR valuation, risk measurement, and hedging practices. In that role, Fleishman gained deep expertise in MSR cash flow and mortgage modeling as well as experience managing diverse client needs ranging from model validation to MSR acquisition analysis. Earlier in his career, he also spent more than a decade at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "I am delighted about this opportunity to be a part of such a dynamic company in this new role," Fleishman said. "I look forward to helping Edge users manage multiple loan-level datasets with ease and visualize servicing cash flows and analytics rapidly and with granularity." Bernadette Kogler, CEO of RiskSpan added, "Dan's extensive expertise with mortgage and MSR analytics is a wonderful complement to our Edge Platform. With the MSR application starting to gain real traction, Dan is just the person to help ensure our clients are getting all they can out of the capability." MORTGAGE CONNECT ADDS JANE KENNEDY AS SVP OF DEFAULT DIVISION Jane Kennedy has joined Pittsburgh-based Mortgage Connect LP as SVP of Sales and Strategy for the company's Default Division, where she will oversee the progression of key initiatives, including enhancing the company's line of default services. In addition, Kennedy will also lead Mortgage Connect's National Default Sales team. She brings more than two decades of industry experience to the role, starting her career as an attorney focused on the banking industry. "Our focus on delivering best-in-class default and loss mitigation solutions starts with the partner experience," said Jeff Coury, CEO of Mortgage Connect. "Jane will be a key part of realizing our goal of continuing to expand our model nationwide and enable partners to enhance efficiencies, increase velocity, and to mitigate risk—all essential components in today's volatile market." With a background in default servicing and the legal side of the mortgage industry, Kennedy worked for LandAmerica Lenders Services and ServiceLink before landing with Mortgage Connect. Kennedy says the entrepreneurial spirit of Mortgage Connect and its client-centric reputation provides the opportunity to create solutions for the unique issues facing each servicer, lender, or investor and to provide clients with confidence in their vendor management partnerships. "Our focus on delivering best-in- class default and loss mitigation solutions starts with the partner experience." —Jeff Coury, CEO of Mortgage Connect L E G A L P R O V I D E R S MCCALLA RAYMER LEIBERT PIERCE OPENS OREGON OFFICE McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce LLP (MRLP) has announced its Northwest expansion with the opening of its newest office in Clackamas, Oregon, with the addition of lawyers Carrie Majors-Staab and Cara Richter, who will be based in the new Oregon office. Additionally, Laura Coughlin has joined MRLP as Managing Attorney of its Washington foreclosure practice and will be based in the firm's Bellevue, Washington office. McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce is a provider of legal services to the financial services and mortgage banking industries, handling a full range of regulatory compliance issues, legislative issues, residential and commercial foreclosures, retail closings, commercial transactions, commercial litigation, bankruptcies, evictions, and related litigation matters for many of the nation's largest financial institutions. "I am very excited for the continued expansion of MRLP," said Michael Gonzales, Managing Partner for MRLP's West Coast Foreclosure and Litigation Groups. "We have built an incredibly talented, driven team in Oregon and Washington and look forward to partnering with our clients to resolve the challenges they face." "We have built an incredibly talented, driven team in Oregon and Washington and look forward to partnering with our clients to resolve the challenges they face." —Michael Gonzales, Managing Partner for MRLP's West Coast Foreclosure and Litigation Group Movers & Shakers