Rob Chrisman began his career in mortgage banking – primarily capital markets – 36 years ago in 1985 with First California Mortgage, assisting in Secondary Marketing. After, he ran Secondary for Standard Financial, a sub-prime lender in northern California, and in late 1997 Rob was hired by CrossLand Mortgage to start, and be the president of, a sub-prime company named OnCall Mortgage (a division of CrossLand).  

In November of 2006 Rob left TRMS to become the Director of Capital Markets for RPM Mortgage, leaving there in late 2008 to focus on not only publishing a widely read daily market commentary on current mortgage events.  

Rob is on the board of directors of the California MBA, and is also a member of the Secure Settlements Advisory Board, an associate of the STRATMOR Group, and of the Mortgage Bankers Association of the Carolinas and its membership committee. he has provided expert witness services for mortgage and real estate-related cases, has lectured to groups around the country.

Jack Konyk, Executive Director, Government Affairs at Weiner Brodsky Kider PC has over four decades of experience in mortgage banking, including regulatory compliance, risk management, and public/government affairs. He is a frequent and well-regarded speaker who has presented all over the country, including Indiana many times, and is also an instructor at numerous lending and compliance schools operated by the national and state trade associations, as well as the AARMR and NACCA examiner training schools.

Jack has a valuable, interactive presentation planned that will cover the following bullet points, and more, and in this format, he will be asking for engagement from the audience.

Topics he will be covering include:

• Latest regulatory and legal developments
• Notable recent enforcement actions (who’s getting into trouble, and for what)
• Predictions of likely coming attractions from state and federal regulators, and,
• Whatever else YOU want to talk about!

Becky Epperson is the VP for National sales at AppraiserVendor in Greenwood, Indiana, where she has been for over 12 years.  Reporting directly to the Chief Operations Officer, Becky is responsible for maximizing growth through effective leadership and management of the day-to-day operations for the company. This includes the implementation of company strategy for both short- and long-term projects in an effort to optimize workflow and productivity. Review and collaborate with the executive board to properly manage labor efficiency, material efficiency, and customer service efficiency, while providing optimum service levels to our clients. Review performance against operating plans and approve changes in plan direction as needed.

Dave Nuerge has over fifteen years of real estate experience and is one of only a handful of residential appraisers in Northeast Indiana to have attained the SRA Designation from the Appraisal Institute. The SRA designation is earned by completing graduate-level appraisal curriculum including a written demonstration appraisal report and by attaining 3,000 hours of qualifying experience requirements.

Dave is an expert at appraising vacant residential land, residential single unit dwelling properties, residential manufactured homes, residential 2-4 unit properties, REO (Foreclosure), FHA, FHA 203K, new construction, and appraisal reviews. He covers the following 10 Indiana counties: Allen, Adams, Wells, Huntington, Whitley, Noble, Steuben, DeKalb, LaGrange, and Kosciusko.

Kaye Flanagan manages the underwriting Help Desk, and underwrites files for Hallmark Home Mortgage.  She began her career at Norwest Mortgage where she was a processor, and then worked for Waterfield Mortgage where she became a VP of Operations, managing up to 20 employees.  She then moved to Hallmark in the closing and post-closing area, before moving into Investor relations, and then realizing she loved the review of guidelines and updating them, led her to her current position with Hallmark Home Mortgage.

Debra Pedzinski is a graduate of Indiana University Kelly School of Business with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance. She currently is the Vice President of the Retail Lending Underwriting team and her responsibilities include managing a staff of 18 underwriters in addition to supporting 39 mortgage loan officers. She has obtained her FHA DE and VA LAPP SAR designations in addition to being recognized as one of Horizon’s top performers; she was also a member of Horizon Bank’s Presidents Club and the recipient of the Horizon Bank Robert C Dabagia Leadership Award.