May/June 2022 Reverse Mortgage Magazine

Scribes Meet This Month’s Contributors Steve Irwin (Moving Forward, p. 5), president of NRMLA, oversees the association’s initiatives to serve as an educational resource, policy advocate and public affairs center for consumers, lenders and related professionals. His background includes experience with strategic planning, organizational design, portfolio acquisition, risk management and quality control. He received his B.A. from Grinnell College and his MBA from the University of San Francisco. M. Diane McCormick (CRMP: Across the Kitchen Table, p. 16) is a freelance journalist and former legislative press secretary. She covers issues involving a variety of national business associations, as well as basic and higher education. Her 2017 book, Well-Behaved Taverns Seldom Make History, explores Pennsylvania pubs where rabble-rousers stirred up trouble, from the American Revolution to Prohibition. Alex Pistone (Board Room, p. 6) is president of Mutual of Omaha Reverse Mortgage. Before that, he was president of Retirement Funding Solutions, which was acquired by Mutual of Omaha in 2018. He has been in the reverse mortgage space for 14 years. He is responsible for all aspects of Mutual of Omaha’s reverse mortgage business, from sales and marketing to operations, growth strategy and business development. Thomas A. Barstow (In Reverse, p. 3, Saving Increases Nationwide, p 24, and Funding Healthcare Costs, p. 28) is the senior editor for Reverse Mortgage magazine. Barstow has had a 37-year career in journalism that includes being a reporter, writer and editor in Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York. He currently teaches journalism at Gettysburg College and writes for various business publications. He is a former president of the Pennsylvania Society of News Editors and a former president of the Associated Press Media Editors in Pennsylvania. Joel Berg (Understanding the Older Americans Act, p. 20) has been a business-to-business reporter and editor for more than 20 years, both in-house and freelance, covering finance, healthcare, environmental regulation and general business news for local, regional and national publications. Most recently, he was editor of the Central Penn Business Journal and Lehigh Valley Business in Pennsylvania. He also taught writing and communications at York College, Millersville University, Gettysburg College and Harrisburg University. Darryl Hicks (From the Top, p. 12, and Those We Help, p. 32) joined NRMLA in May 1999 and currently serves as vice president of communications. Hicks writes the Weekly Report newsletter, administers NRMLA’s social media accounts and websites and manages the CRMP designation. HighTechLending, Inc. All Rights Reserved. NMLS #7147 (nmlsconsumeraccess.org). For more information on licensing please visit www.hightechlending.com/compliance-information 2 REVERSE MORTGAGE / MAY- JUNE 2022

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