President of Mortgage Scholars.com
About John L. Ondrick
John L. Ondrick graduated from Georgetown University in 1965 with an International Economics degree. After serving in the Army as an Armor officer, he sold computers for IBM. John was a Top Producer loan originator for many years. Later he became a Regional Manager for two National Mortgage Banker firms before moving over to the “teck” side of the equation. Mr. Ondrick is credited with conceptualizing and creating the first CLO [Computer Loan Origination network] in the country for non-Freddie/Fannie paper. Mr. Ondrick may be reached at info@mortgagescholars.com.
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Former President Contour Software
About Scott Cooley
Scott Cooley was past President of Contour Software, a Silicon Valley, California-based provider of mortgage loan software systems for the financial industry. With a customer base of 40,000 active seat licenses nationwide, Contour is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ellie Mae. An expert in mortgage technology, Scott is an author of numerous articles in such industry publications as Mortgage Banking, Mortgage Originator, National Mortgage Broker and National Mortgage Technology Review. He also is a consistent source of information for articles in American Banker, National Mortgage News, Origination News, Real Estate Finance Today and Secondary Marketing Management and many others. Scott enjoys Board seats of “dot com” companies, advisory seats and consulting in the areas of E-Commerce. Visit the Contour Software website at http://www.contoursoft.com.
Managing Director Wholesale Access
About Tom LaMalfa
For the past twenty-two years, Tom has worked as a mortgage finance researcher, secondary market analyst, money market economist, journalist and consultant. He spent eleven years with MGIC, three with North American Mortgage and two with the ABC Group, before setting out his own shingle a decade ago. Since December 1990, Tom has managed TSL Consulting, a survey research firm. TSL Consulting provides survey research services to wholesalers. He is a managing director at Wholesale Access, a publishing and mortgage studies company. Economists David Olson and Larry Pearl are Wholesale Access’ other managing directors. Both firms specialize in research. Please visit the Wholesale Access website at http://www.wholesaleaccess.com.
Aptus Corporation
About Roger P. Farano
Roger P. Farano managed the development of the MortgageScholars.com portal. Roger’s firm designs and implements websites for e-commerce, education and business infrastructure. For MortgageScholars.com, Roger used state of the art digital processing techniques that enable high quality, low bandwidth media to be transmitted over the Internet. Mr. Farano graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science Degree and from Old Dominion University in 1984 with a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science. Roger has worked and consulted for many top firms and government agencies including IBM, FAA, FBI, Department of Defense, Cable and Wireless, Dynatech and many others. Contact Mr. Farano at Roger.Farano@aptus-corp.com.