Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Kenneth M. Donohue, Sr.
Inspector General
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
President Bush nominated Kenneth M. Donohue on July 25, 2001, as Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The U.S. Senate confirmed him on March 25, 2002.
Featured Speakers
David Bizar
Partner
McCarter & English, LLP
Mr. Bizar practices business, financial services and consumer litigation and frequently represents companies in their highest stakes disputes challenging their products and services, corporate practices and regulatory adherence.
Jeff Gentry
VP, Emerging Services
Kroll Factual Data
Mr. Gentry is responsible for developing strategies for new products and services developed for the mortgage industry. He has been working with brokers, banks, credit unions, and investors, discussing the issues of fraud, collateral mis-representations, and identity theft as well as detection tools and the risk assessment services required to develop internal procedures.
Michael B. Goldberg
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel
Wachovia Corporation
As Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Wachovia Corporation, Mr. Goldberg has direct responsibility for a national litigation docket at the fourth largest financial institution in the United States with over $700 billion in assets and national and international lending/retail banking operations.
Michael H. Gottschlich
Partner
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Michael H. Gottschlich is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Indianapolis, Indiana office, where he is a member of the Litigation Department. He focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, lender disputes, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, and professional liability.
Amy Heinz
Senior Industry Relations Manager
Fannie Mae
Amy Heinz is Senior Industry Relations Manager in Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Fraud Program. Amy’s role is to coordinate Fannie Mae’s anti-fraud efforts with Fannie Mae’s partners, including the lending community, industry groups and law enforcement.
Roberta Janel, CMB
Managing Director
J.H. Cohn Professional Mortgage Consultants, LLC
Roberta Janel, Managing Director of J.H. Cohn Professional Mortgage Consultants, LLC specializing in mortgage operational, advisory and forensic services. She has over twenty-five years successfully defending client repurchases and has published several articles on Repurchases that appeared in national publications. Before Joining J. H. Cohn she founded Lending Talent, a nationwide management consulting and due diligence firm. Prior to that she was a lending officer at Chase Manhattan Mortgage, Merrill Lynch and Citicorp. She is a Faculty Fellow of the School of Mortgage Banking and a Master Certified Mortgage Banker (MCMB) the highest professional designation in the Mortgage Banking Industry.
Dr. Gary Lacefield
Executive Vice-president, Director of Compliance
WR Starkey Mortgage LLP
Dr. Gary Lacefield has served as the Executive Vice-President and Director of Compliance for W.R. Starkey Mortgage for the past six years. He is also the principal consultant for the Risk Mitigation Group, a real estate-related financial consulting company specializing in fair lending & fair housing related issues, RESPA, predatory lending, insurance redlining, mortgage quality control, forensic mortgage audits and regulatory compliance-related issues.
Al Macdonald
CEO & Founder
NominoData - CheckForRisk
With more than 12 years of experience in the AML Market, Mr. Macdonald has architected, project managed and implemented the Anti-Money Laundering systems used by some of the largest financial institutions in the world. He was previously Chief Technical Officer for Regulatory Data Corporation (RDC), which filed five patents based on his design and methods. Prior to RDC, he spent six years at Compliance Data Center/Equifax directing their application development and computer centers. Mr. Macdonald also worked in the city of London architecting, marketing and project managing networking computer solutions to financial institutions.
Frank McKenna
Co-founder and Chief Fraud Strategist
BasePoint Analytics
Widely recognized for his extensive fraud consulting expertise in the financial services and mortgage industries, Frank is responsible for developing highly effective fraud solutions and service methodologies.
Rodney Nelsestuen
Research Director, Financial Strategies and IT Investments
TowerGroup
Rod Nelsestuen is a research director in the TowerGroup Financial Strategies and IT Investments Cross Industry group. He conducts research on business and IT strategies, emerging trends, growth strategies and issues germane to all verticals across the industry.
Diane Pendley
Managing Director
Fitch Ratings
Diane Pendley is the managing director of Fitch Ratings’ operational risk group within its structured finance division. Her responsibilities include program development and oversight of global residential and commercial servicer ratings and ABS seller/servicer ratings.
Merle D. Sharick, CMB
Vice President, National Manager Mortgage/Real Estate Business Development
MARI, a LexisNexis® Service
Merle D. Sharick, CMB, is responsible for all business development activities for MARI. Clients of MARI include the “Who’s Who” of financial services and lending. He manages a team that markets LexisNexis data solutions to the mortgage and real estate industries.
Bob Simpson
President
IMARC
Mr. Simpson is president of IMARC, the Irvine California based leader in the field of mortgage fraud consulting and recovery services. After purchasing the interest of AIG United Guaranty in 2007, Mr. Simpson is the sole owner of the company.
Robert J. Strupp
Director of Research and Policy
Community Law Center
Robert J. Strupp is the Director of Research and Policy with the Community Law Center, in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Strupp’s projects seek to combat predatory and deceptive real estate transactions and related practices that can lead to foreclosure, family tragedies, abandoned properties and other consequences detrimental to individuals and communities.
Ryan Thomas
Senior Managing Attorney
American Mortgage Law Group P.C.
Ryan Thomas is a Senior Managing Attorney at the American Mortgage Law Group P.C. Mr. Thomas represents mortgage lenders, secondary market investors, warehouse lenders, insurance companies, loan servicers and Wall Street investment banks in mortgage banking matters throughout the United States.
Richard Wohl
Managing Partner
Fortace
Richard Wohl is a managing partner at Fortace, a company that works with major mortgage loan and bond investors, national lenders and servicers to pursue and recover fraud losses.