LoanCraft's Team

LoanCraft is uniquely positioned to help servicers with the loan modification challenge. Because of our experience in working with large banks, we are an "institutional company." We understand industry sensitivity about confidentiality, information security, and accuracy and quality review. Our leaders have strong experience working with servicers, but we also have the customer contact and transaction execution associated with bank origination. We bring an experienced team to the most pressing problem facing the industry.

Brian Brizard, Director of Loan Modification Services

Brian Brizard is a 16 year veteran of the home loan industry. Most recently, he was President of Sallie Mae Home Loans, where he managed a retail and wholesale origination operation with 200 employees charged with marketing and cross-selling home loans to Sallie Mae’s 10 million student loan customers.  Brian joined Sallie Mae after selling it Pioneer Mortgage, which he founded in 1991 -- Pioneer grew to a $1 Billion annual originator of home loans. InIn July 2007, Brian helped Sallie Mae exit the business of directly providing mortgage financing by negotiating a private label origination agreement with QuickenLoans. Brian has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University at Sacramento and an MBA with Finance Concentration of Wayne State University in Detroit.

Ron George, President

Ron founded LoanCraft, LLC in late 2002 and serves as its President. Prior to forming LoanCraft, he was Group VP of Operations at Trans Union Settlement Solutions, Inc. from 1999 to 2002. Trans Union provided outsourced vendor management activities for appraisal, flood, title, automated valuation services, document preparation, recording and closing services. Its 1,500 clients included top lenders Bank One, US Bank, and Wells Fargo. Prior to joining Trans Union, was at Proctor Financial from 1988 to 1999, serving as VP, Flood Compliance and President of Western Flood Inc. Proctor Financial is a 100-year old company focused on bringing specialty insurance and outsourcing services to mortgage servicers. He holds a BA in Economics and Management from Albion College, a Masters in Philosophy from Wayne State University, and a Masters in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.

Mitch Boxberger, Business Development

Mitch Boxberger has over 20 years of experience working with global and community banks, insurance companies and investment bankers. Most recently he ran a wholesale mortgage origination platform to acquire loans from mortgage brokers/bankers and community banks for HSBC Mortgage Services. As a Divisional Manager at HSBC, Mitch's responsibilities included working directly with HSBC's problem loan group, mortgage brokers and borrowers to facilitate refinances, forbearance agreements, loan modifications, short sales and deeds in lieu of foreclosure. His experience working on distressed assets at HSBC give him the unique ability to understand how to analyze risk, develop exit strategies and execute the correct action to mitigate losses in a problem loan portfolio. Mitch is a graduate of North Carolina University in Raleigh NC and his banking and financial background is extensive, working in management for such large institutions as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Long Beach Bank, The Holden Group and First National Bank of Arizona.

Sherri Starr, VP, Lending Manager

Sherri Starr has been a lending manager at LoanCraft since 2005, and has managed the loan consultant group. From 2001 to 2005, she was Sales Director at CitiMortgage, managing a team that produced mortgages in all 50 states. Prior to that she held a similar position at Superior Financial. Sherri also worked for twenty years at First of America in Royal Oak, MI, at positions ranging from Teller to Operations Manager of all Check Processing Functions.

Thomas W. Proctor, Chairman

Tom Proctor was President and CEO of Proctor Financial from 1990 to 2007.  Proctor Financial is a long-time provider of outsourcing and insurance programs to large and small mortgage servicers.  In 2004, he sold Proctor Financial to Brown & Brown, Inc. of Florida. Tom has over twenty years of experience in developing specialty insurance programs for financial institutions. Beginning as a marketing representative for Proctor Financial, he later moved to National Marketing Director and Special Risk Division Manager. Tom has grown Proctor Financial into a nationally recognized provider of financial services, building its premium from $5 million annually to more than $60 million during his tenure. Tom has served on the INSITE Subcommittee, Data Standards Task Force and the Loan Administration Committee of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. He is a member of the Professional Insurance Agents, NAPSLO and the Young Presidents Organization. Tom holds a business degree from the University of Michigan and is a Certified Property and Casualty Underwriter.