Key hirer to support increased demand of client growth and market share in mortgage recruiting
MISSION VIEJO, CA – February 7, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Hammerhouse LLC, an expanding national recruiting and strategic growth firm for the financial service industry with mortgage sales and leadership placement at its core, announced today the hiring of Grant Lupo as Strategic Growth Partner. Mr. Lupo, an experienced mortgage professional with years of experience in servicing, hiring and training mortgage production professionals, is being hired to help manage Hammerhouse’s client growth and expand the Company’s national mortgage recruiting market share. Mr. Lupo will report directly to Drew Waterhouse, Managing Director of Hammerhouse and be based in Mission Viejo, CA.
“We are extremely pleased to have someone of Grant’s knowledge, integrity and track record join the Hammerhouse mortgage recruiting team. Grant’s brings impressive mortgage credentials, which can be leveraged to help our national and regional clients grow their production teams and branch networks,” commented Drew Waterhouse, Managing Director of Hammerhouse LLC. “Hammerhouse is experiencing very high demand from depositories and non-depositories lenders for originators that focus on purchase business and have transferable referral and customers relationships. This is creating a significant opportunity for high quality producers and well-respected leaders to be heavily recruited in 2011 and well into the future.”
Mr. Lupo joins Hammerhouse with over 12 years of experience in servicing, hiring and training mortgage production professionals within the wholesale and retail channels. Most recently, Mr. Lupo was employed as a Wholesale Account Executive at Bay Equity LLC, servicing mortgage brokers and loan officers throughout Southern California. Previously, Mr. Lupo held the position of Wholesale Account Executive at both Security National Mortgage and AmericanHomeKey, Inc. Prior to these positions, Mr. Lupo held various positions at BrokerSource Mortgage, most recently as Sales Manager, where he was responsible for hiring and training new account executives, facilitating their production and delivering key profitability metrics to executive management. Mr. Lupo started his mortgage career at AccuBank Mortgage/National City Mortgage.
Through its unique model-matching process, Hammerhouse helps both mortgage bankers and depositories expand top line revenue by adding experienced mortgage professionals. Since inception in late 2008, when the Company was founded by a core group of search professional with over 30 years of combined experience of developing strategic partnerships with mortgage bankers and the financial services sector, Hammerhouse has helped its clients bring on board what equates to approximately $6.5 billion in annualized production volume.
About Hammerhouse LLC
Hammerhouse LLC is an expanding national recruiting and strategic growth firm for the financial services industry with mortgage sales and leadership placement at its core. Founded in 2008, Hammerhouse partners with clients to source, attract, model-match, hire and retain revenue-generating human capital at all levels of an organization—- from production to executive leadership. Through its unique model-matching process, Hammerhouse helps mortgage bankers and depositories as well as private equity firms entering and expanding in the market, expand top line revenue by adding experienced mortgage professionals that focus on purchase business and have developed transferable relationships from referral partners and past customers. For more information on Hammerhouse LLC, please visit http://www.teamhammerhouse.com.
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