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MortgagePoint » Your Trusted Source for Mortgage Banking and Servicing News 18 November 2024 M O V E R S & S H A K E R S ny's Builder Division. Escobar currently serves on several advisory boards and committees, including MBA's 2023-2024 Board of Directors and its MORPAC Steering Committee, as well as the TransUnion Mortgage Advisory Board, Fannie Mae AHAC, Ellie Mae Executive Advisory Board, NAHREP, NAMMBA Visionary Ambassador, and at the Unit- ed Way's chapter–Women United. Christine Chandler, EVP, Chief Credit Officer and COO with M&T Realty Capital Corporation (RCC), and Owen Lee, CEO at Success Mortgage Partners Inc., (SMP) were also sworn in as Chair-Elect and Vice Chair, respectively. Chandler has been with M&T since 1991 and has more than 30 years of expe- rience in commercial real estate finance. Since 2018, she has been responsible for making credit decisions for M&T RCC multifamily and healthcare transac- tions underwritten in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) platforms, as well as managing the company's operations and its Asset Management Group and Transformation team. Prior to that, Chandler served 13 years as the M&T RCC Chief FHA Underwriter, was a se- nior Fannie Mae DUS Underwriter, and previously spent several years managing the closing and delivery for FHA and Ginnie Mae transactions. Chandler has also served as a relationship manager in the company's commercial real estate division, focusing on construction and permanent portfolio lending. Active in various committees and groups related to the mortgage banking industry, Chandler is a voting member of MBA's Board of Directors, served as 2023 Chair of MBA's Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG), and was appointed to MBA's DEI Committee in 2022 and its Audit Committee in 2021. She is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and is a passionate advocate for mPower. Lee co-founded Success Mortgage Partners (SMP), located in Plymouth, Michigan, with his father, Vincent, in 2002 and serves as CEO. Under his leadership, SMP has closed billions of dollars of mortgage loans yearly since 2016, is licensed in 42 states, and has more than 600 employees. Lee is also Managing Member of Title Partners LLC, a full-service title insurance and escrow services agency. An active leader in the mortgage and financial services sectors, Lee serves on MBA's Board of Directors, is Co-Chair of its Independent Mortgage Bankers Executive Council, and is currently the 2023-2024 Chairman of MORPAC, MBA's political action committee, where he has been a successful political fund- raiser, helping to advance the associa- tion's top legislative priorities. Lee is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Mortgage Collaborative's Technol- ogy Fund, a venture capital investment group specializing in the mortgage tech- nology space. He also sits on the Board of Directors of TrAIned, a mortgage technology firm in Pittsburgh. SERVICELINK ADDS NEW SVP OF PRODUCT INNOVATION ServiceLink has announced the appointment of Hemanth Panyam as SVP of Product Innova- tion. Panyam, a data-oriented, hands-on leader, who has more than 20 years of product innova- tion, management, and strategy experience. Over the course of his career, he launched multiple 0-1 products and scaled numerous SaaS technology products for some of the nation's largest technology-led services and businesses in the healthcare and financial sectors. His expertise in product management and strategy includes scaling multiple SaaS and technology consulting businesses from $0 to $300 million in revenue across various industries and geographies. As SVP of Product Innovation for ServiceLink, Panyam will be responsible for bringing new, innovative products and services to life at ServiceLink, teaming up with operations and sales to meet the needs of the company's clients. Panyam will report directly to CTO Kiran Vattem and build a team that is fo- cused on systematically identifying ways to improve and innovate the mortgage space through products and services. "I am excited to bring my extensive knowledge and experience to Ser- viceLink that is grounded in technology and innovation that challenges the status quo. I look forward to deeply examining client-consumer touchpoints to analyze and then create disruptive innovations that will impact the mort- gage landscape," Panyam said. "I want to make a meaningful impact in people's lives by removing friction and elevating their experience in the mortgage space." Over the course of his career, Panyam worked across the healthcare, retail, and fintech industries, building cutting-edge technology products. His efforts have taken him across the world, where he founded, led, and scaled the digital products and solutions for a U.S.- based Fortune 200 firm in Australia and New Zealand, built and exited a retail start up that he co-founded and played a pivotal role as the first member of the India team for a startup that went on to make waves in the healthcare technolo- gy space. He excels at creating multiyear product strategies and leading large teams through the build, launch, and scale processes.