A celebration of the achievements and successes of the real estate community’s best and brightest in the mortgage and finance space.

The 2025 Inman Best of Finance Award Winners

Max Slyusarchuk, CEO, A&D Mortgage

Spencer Dusebout, Founder and CEO, Aidium Mortgage CRM

William Shepro, CEO, Altisource

Tony Eelman, President, Amerant Mortgage

Dustin Sheppard, President, American Pacific Mortgage

Josh Adler, President and CEO, AmeriHome Mortgage Company

Patrick Markert, Founder and CEO, AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation

Michael Schmeiser, President and CEO, Arch Mortgage Insurance Company

Shmulik Fishman, Founder and CEO , Argyle

Jonathon Haddad, CEO, Association of Independent Mortgage Experts

Holly O'Neill, President, Consumer, Retail and Preferred, Bank of America

AJ Barkley, Head of CRA and Neighborhood and Community Lending, Bank of America

Tim Nguyen, Co-founder and CEO, BeSmartee

Vishal Garg, Founder and CEO, Better

Nima Ghamsari, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Blend

Jason Buchanan, Chief Credit and Risk Officer, Blue Federal Credit Union

David Temko, CEO, C2 Financial

Michael Bremer, CEO, Calque 

Sean Grzebin, CEO of Home Lending, Chase

Gary Maughan, EVP, Mortgage Banking Director, CIBM Mortgage

Jane Fraser, CEO, Citi

Bruce Van Suan, CEO, Citizens Bank

Duane Andrews, Co-founder and CEO, Clear Capital

Maria Moskver, CEO, Cloudvirga

Christopher George, President and CEO, CMG Financial

Jay Kingsley, President, Cotality

Jeffrey Walker, Co-founder and CEO, CredEvolv

Ron Leonhardt, Founder and CEO, CrossCountry Mortgage 

Sean Dugan, CEO, Dark Matter Technologies

Robert Karraa, President, DataTrace

Todd Orlando, Co-founder and CEO, Defy Mortgage

Allan Thygesen, CEO, DocuSign

Max Simkoff, Founder and CEO, Doma

Rohit Gupta, President and CEO, Enact

Scott Martino, CEO, Endpoint

Mark Casale, Chairman and CEO, Essent

Andrew Leff, SVP, Head of National Business Development, Evergreen Home Loans

Robert Lipston , Executive Vice President, Head of Production, Evergreen Home Loans

Steve Jacobson, CEO, Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

Mike Nolan, CEO, Fidelity National Financial

Graham Fleming, CEO, Finance of America

Mark Seaton, CEO, First American

Tanya Ceperley, SVP of Mergers & Acquisitions, First American

Keith Canter, CEO, First Community Mortgage

Mike Lyons, CEO, Fiserv

Lee Smith, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, Flagstar Bank

Sofia Rossato, President and General Manager, Floify

Peter Bowman, Co-founder and CEO, Flueid

Tushar Garg, Co-founder and CEO, Flyhomes

Brent Chandler, Founder and CEO, FormFree

Landy Liu, CEO, Foyer

Greg Middleman, Executive Vice President, Freedom Mortgage

Stan Middleman, Founder, President and CEO, Freedom Mortgage

Katie King, Chief Risk Officer, Head of Partnerships, Gateless

Michael Isaacs, CEO, Go Mortgage

Kathryn Amor, SVP, Head of Enterprise Products, Rate

Victor Ciardelli, President and CEO, Rate

Terry Schmidt, President, Guild Mortgage

Peter Norden, CEO, Homebridge Financial Services

Drew Uher, Founder and CEO, HomeLight

Jeffrey Glass, Co-founder and CEO, Hometap

Tim Heyl, Founder and CEO, Homeward

Timothy Bowler, President, ICE Mortgage Technology, ICE

Sean Buckner, President and CEO, Informative Research

Kelley Hailstone, President, Jet HomeLoans

Arvind Mohan, CEO, Kiavi

Sean Black, Co-founder and CEO, Knock

Dawar Alimi, Founder, CEO and President, Lender Price

Chris Martin, Head of Business Development, Lender

Justin Demola, President, Lenders One Cooperative

Carter Zimmerman, President, Lendesk

Doug Lebda, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, LendingTree

Laura Escobar , President, Lennar Mortgage

Anthony Hsieh , President, Executive Chairman and Interim CEO, LoanDepot

Christopher Mayer, CEO, Longbridge Financial

Dan Snyder, Co-founder & CEO, Lower

Ben Madick,Co-founder and CEO, Matic

Rutul Davé, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Maxwell

John Paasonen, Co-founder and CEO, Maxwell

Tim Mattke, CEO, MGIC

Casey Crawford, Co-founder and CEO, Movement Mortgage

Jay Bray, Chairman and CEO, Mr. Cooper 

Paul Sutor, President, myCUmortgage

Valerie Saunders, Chief Executive Strategist , National Association of Mortgage Brokers

Adam Pollitzer, President and CEO, National MI

Mary McDuffie, President and CEO, Navy Federal Credit Union

Rick and Patty Arvielo , Co-founders and CEOs, New American Funding

Baron Silverstein, President, Newrez

Adi Pavlovic, Co-founder and CEO, Newzip

Mike Kortas, CEO, NEXA Mortgage

Brian Webster, President, NotaryCam

Sam Bobley, Co-founder and CEO, Ocrolus

Andy Peach, EVP and Chief Lending Officer , Onity

Glen Messina, Chair, President and CEO, Onity

Laura Mowrer, EVP, Orion Technologies, Old Republic Title Tech

Joe Tyrrell, CEO, Optimal Blue

Erin Wester, CPO, Optimal Blue

Court Cunningham, Co-founder and CEO, Orchard

Patrick Boyaggi, Co-founder and CEO, Own Up

Neil Fraser, Director of U.S. Operations, Paradatec

Doug Jones, President and Chief Mortgage Banking Officer, Pennymac

Zach Perret, Co-founder and CEO, Plaid

Michael Dubreck, President and CEO, Planet Home Lending

Alex Overstrom, EVP, Head of Retail Banking, PNC Bank

Eddie Lim, Co-founder, Point

Matt Ellis, SVP, PointServ

Adam Carmel, Founder and CEO, Polly 

Steve Thompson, President and CEO, PrimeLending

Pat Kinsel, Founder and CEO, Proof

Rick Thornberry, CEO, Radian

Raunaq Singh, Founder and CEO, Roam
Nicole Beattie, CEO, Rocket Close

Shawn Malhotra, CTO, Rocket Companies

Bill Emerson, President and COO, Rocket Companies

Varun Krishna, CEO, Rocket Companies

Dan Sogorka, General Manager, Rocket Pro

Robert Palmer, Owner and CEO, RP Funding

Geno Paluso, CEO, Sagent

Jaime Gow, CFO, Sagent

Ben Rubenstein, President and Co-founder, Setpoint

Randy VandenHouten, SVP Joint Venture and Retail Lending, Shelter Mortgage

Brian Cullen, CEO, SingleSource

Aaron King, Founder and Executive Chairman, Snapdocs

Patrick Burns, Vice President Product Management, Spruce

Frederick Eppinger, CEO, Stewart Title

Owen Lee, Co-ow, CEO, Sun West Mortgage Company

Steve Majerus, CEO, Synergy One Lending

Anita Padilla, President and CEO, Take3Tech and MegaStar Financial Corp 

Scott McCall, President and CEO, Title Resources Group

Chris Cartwright, President and CEO, TransUnion

Dontá Wilson, Chief Consumer and Small Business Banking Officer and member of the Truist Operating Council, Truist

Kirill Klokov, CEO, Truv

Bill Cosgrove, CEO, Union Home Mortgage

Thomas Sponholtz, CEO, Unison 

Jason Bressler, CTO, United Wholesale Mortgage

Mat Ishbia, Chairman, President and CEO, United Wholesale Mortgage

James Riccitelli, CEO, Unlock Technologies

Sarah Petteway-Dib, SVP, Product and Data Operations, Veros Real Estate Solutions

Mike Yu, Co-founder and CEO, Vesta

Nathan Long, CEO, Veterans United Home Loans

 Chris Trujillo, Trujillo Partner, Viant Eye

Kristy Williams Fercho, Head of Diverse Segments, Representation and Inclusion, Wells Fargo

Kevin Reen, CEO, Wells Fargo Home Lending

Steve Ozonian, CEO and President, Williston Financial Group

Patrick Stone, Chairman and Founder, Williston Financial Group

Shelley Leonard, President, Xactus

Lane Hornung, Co-founder and CEO, zavvie

Rian Furey, President, Zillow Home Loans