Capital Markets Today

Greg Rand, Founder & CEO of OwnAmerica is a 20-year residential real estate industry veteran. OwnAmerica focuses on the intelligent aggregation of single-family portfolios for institutional investors. Additionally, Rand wrote Crash Boom! and hosts FOX Business Network's “Where to Invest Now.”

Rebecca Regan develops and manages the Housing Partnership Network’s capital market relationships and oversees its neighborhood stabilization and foreclosure prevention initiatives. She also plays a critical role in leading business collaboration and peer exchange among the network’s high-performing affordable housing organizations. Previously she served as COO for Boston Community Capital as well as president of its Loan Fund.

Gordon Crawford is responsible for developing models and analytics, including home price indices, automated property valuation models, and loan performance models, at DataQuick. He previously served as VP of mortgage research at Fannie Mae for more than 20 years directing loan and property performance research, home price forecasting, property valuation models, and home price index estimation methods.

Sue Allon launched Allonhill with a mission to reinvent the mortgage due diligence industry. Prior to Allonhill, she introduced credit risk management to the mortgage industry when she launched The Murrayhill Company in 1997. At Price Waterhouse, and Coopers & Lybrand she was a manager in the asset resolution practice.

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James B. Lockhart III is Vice Chairman of WL Ross & Co. LLC and member of the Office of the Chairman and Investment Committee. His responsibilities include overseeing financial services portfolio companies and sourcing new opportunities in the financial services industry. Mr. Lockhart previously was the Director of Federal Housing Finance Agency.

Rob Clare is Senior Vice President of Client Development for Banc of Manhattan Capital based in Woodland Hills, California.  Centered in Chicago, Rob has been in the mortgage and real estate industry since 1987 and brings a broad prospective and experience that includes residential origination, mortgage operations, broker/dealer activity and whole loan capital markets transactions.

Jordan Kavana, Founder & CEO of Transcendent Investment joins the broadcast to discuss the REO to rental outlook. In 2009, Mr. Kavana founded Build U.S. Back, a vertically integrated platform that evaluates, acquires, renovates, manages and leases single family homes throughout the United States.

Dean Brown, founder and CEO of Mortgage Capital Management joins the broadcast to discuss effective hedging strategies for secondary market professionals during an environment of rising interest rates. Since 1994 Mortgage Capital Markets has effectively helped mortgage bankers maximize profitability, decrease earnings volatility and manage risk.

Phil Laren, Founder of PB Pacific Partners, joins the broadcast to discuss the risks and benefits of acquiring and/or retaining mortgage servicing rights. Mr. Laren has been involved in mortgage banking capital markets and risk management for over 25 years. He is well known for developing financial models with applications to servicing value, pipeline hedging, optimal use of options for both servicing and pipeline hedging, as well as profitability and best execution models.