Camilo Escalante

Camilo Escalante serves as Rate’s Executive Director of Diverse Segments, leading the company as it expands its service and marketing in multicultural communities nationwide. Camilo is focused on ensuring that Rate’s loan officers are equipped to serve all borrowers, enhancing access to credit and improving the quality of the lending experience. He focuses on growing Rate's performance in all aspects of multicultural growth including marketing, recruiting, employee culture, loan production, customer experience and community engagement. Since 2020 in his role as an executive for the 2nd largest retail lender in the nation, Camilo has been the Co-Executive sponsor of two key initiatives that have helped the company improve its performance in multicultural communities. The first is the award winning and industry leading Language Access Program, which improves access to credit for the LEP (Limited English Proficiency) community delivering the country’s only “end to end” mortgage experience in Spanish. Since the roll out of the program in 2020 the company has surpassed 15K applications for customers using this innovate Spanish language technology. The second key initiative to improve diversity was rolled out in 2023 and it’s the company’s Community Engagement and Diverse Recruiting strategy, which aims to lead Independent Mortgage Bankers in effective community engagement that will improve loan production and recruitment in underserved communities across the country. Additionally, as of 2024 Camilo is leading the company’s first go to market national strategy to improve brand awareness for Black and Latino communities. Camilo was nominated as the 2024 Chair of the NAHREP Corporate Board of Governors where he works with industry leaders to advance homeownership.