NRMLA Southern Regional 11 Speaker Biographies Gail Balettie, Celink Gail Balettie is the Senior Vice President of Borrower Care and Client Satisfaction for Celink. Prior to Celink, she spent 12 years at Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corp. where she initially served as First Vice President, National Production Operations Manager, before moving over to servicing in 2011. Her reverse mortgage servicing experience includes leading borrower-facing functions, such as the call center, line of credit draws, payoffs, and payment plan changes, as well as end-of-loan functions, like HUD claims and assignments. Balettie has over 30 years of mortgage operations and management experience, including 17 years in the reverse mortgage space. Balettie co-chairs NRMLA’s Servicing Committee and she is also active on the HUD Issues Committee. Balettie attended the University of Texas in Austin, majoring in Business Administration. Jim Brodsky, Weiner Brodsky Kider PC Jim Brodsky is a founding member of the Washington, DC law firm of Weiner Brodsky Kider PC, who advises clients on strategic business initiatives, federal compliance and regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, and secondary mortgage market transactions. As a former HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary, he has deep experience in FHA and Ginnie Mae (as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) requirements, issues, and opportunities, and also is Co-General Counsel of NRMLA. Jim is a Director of Enterprise Community Development, the nation’s fifthlargest affordable housing developer and community owner with well over a billion dollars of investments in almost 13,000 homes with more than 21,000 residents in 112 communities in four mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia. Jim also formerly served as a director (and as initial lead director and as chair of the Compensation Committee) of MFA Financial, Inc., a multi-billion-dollar NYSE-listed REIT that invests, on a leveraged basis, in residential mortgage financial assets and that is the owner of Lima One Capital. Richard Burke, Longbridge Financial LLC Richard Burke, SVP, Head of Servicing, Vendor Risk Management and Post Closing, has over 20 years of mortgage servicing experience in both forward and reverse mortgages, which covers a full gamut of activities and oversight. His experience ranges from customer service to bankruptcy and foreclosure through Vendor Risk Management. Rick was tasked with reviewing and responding to audits from GSEs, private investors, SOX, Federal Reserve Board, OCC, CFPB, and internal audits while at HBSC, OneWest Bank, and BNY Mellon. Prior to Longbridge, Rick was with BNY Mellon’s Home Equity Retirement Solutions business taking it to market and running the Servicing and Operation functions.
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