GENERAL SESSION: Post-Election Analysis - Impact on the Mortgage Markets and Servicing Policy

Brendan Kelleher

Director, Loan Administration, Mortgage Bankers Association

Brendan Kelleher is Associate Director of Loan Administration at the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) where he manages MBA’s legislative and regulatory strategy for residential loan administration and worked with federal housing regulators, investors, and guarantors to improve and streamline servicing requirements. Prior to joining MBA, Brendan worked at Rocket Central as Director, Public Policy overseeing external relations and mortgage policy advocacy. Before joining Rocket Central and MBA, Brendan began his career at Rocket Mortgage as the FHA Servicing Product Manager managing the implementation of FHA servicing policy.

Steve Schachter

EVP, Head of Growth Strategy, Moder Solutions, LLC

Steve Schachter is a seasoned executive with extensive experience leading growth strategies and building high-performing teams in the mortgage industry. In his current role as EVP and Head of Growth Strategy for Moder Solutions LLC, the company has continued to achieve industry-leading growth, more than doubling its client base and revenues since he joined in February 2024. Previously, Schachter held key roles at Sourcepoint, including President and EVP Sales and Marketing, where the company achieved 10x growth during the 6 years of his leadership. He has been recognized with several industry awards, including the HousingWire Vanguard Award in 2021. Schachter has also led his teams to earn recognition from the Everest Group as a Peak Performer for Mortgage Services and Nelson Hall as a Mortgage Services Provider Leader.

Robert D. Broeksmit, CMB

President & Chief Executive Officer, Mortgage Bankers Association

Robert (Bob) Broeksmit is President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Bob is a senior finance executive and corporate officer with a 35-year career in the mortgage sector. He has directed all aspects of lending activities, including marketing, sales, operations, secondary marketing, loan servicing, and default management. He has also served as a mortgage underwriting expert testifying on many large, high-profile cases. Prior to joining MBA in 2018, Bob served as President and Chief Operating Officer with Treliant, heading the firm’s mortgage litigation support practice and serving diverse financial services clientele including large banks, independent mortgage lenders, community banks, credit unions, and service providers to the mortgage industry. As a Washington-based financial services consultancy, Treliant’s mortgage practice included strategic advisory for executive management and corporate boards; litigation defense, including file reviews, litigation strategy, expert reports, and expert testimony; CFPB examination preparation and implementation of mortgage regulations promulgated by the CFPB and other regulators; and operational aspects of mortgage banking, ranging from origination to servicing and loss mitigation. Before Treliant, Bob held senior leadership positions in the mortgage business, including fourteen years with Chevy Chase Bank (including after its purchase by Capital One), where he was Executive Vice President and President of its B.F. Saul Mortgage Company subsidiary. Bob also was a Vice President at Prudential Home Mortgage for seven years. He has overseen annual originations of $9 billion, a balance sheet of $10 billion in residential mortgages, and a servicing portfolio of $20 billion. He also held positions at Great Western Mortgage, Krupp Residential Mortgage, and The Money Store. Bob has served as the Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Residential Board of Governors and as a member of its Board of Directors. Firms under his leadership have garnered multiple awards for servicing operations excellence, including Freddie Mac’s Tier One and Hall of Fame designations. He is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) and a graduate of Yale University.

Isaac Boltansky

Managing Director and Director of Policy Research, BTIG

Isaac Boltansky is a Managing Director and Director of Policy Research at BTIG. In this role he is responsible for coordinating the firm’s Washington policy analysis and forecasting how potential policy shifts could impact investors, corporations, and other market participants. He focuses particularly on financial services, housing policy, digital assets, cannabis policy, tax legislation, and Congress. Prior to BTIG, Mr. Boltansky was the Director of Policy Research at Compass Point Research and Trading. He also served as a Research Analyst on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Congressional Oversight Panel and as a Research Analyst at EJF Capital.

Faith Schwartz

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Housing Finance Strategies, LLC

Recognized and accomplished industry leader, Faith Schwartz founded Housing Finance Strategies in 2016 to leverage her decades of industry leadership and mortgage experience to modernize the housing finance system. Her work and passion for building out the future of mortgage finance includes advisory services, board memberships and strategy roles in growing organizations. Housing Finance Strategies clients include publicly traded financial services firms, trade associations, Fintechs and non-profits. In times of crisis, Faith has been sought out to create nonpartisan solutions for challenging issues. Over the last two years, Faith has spearheaded the development and roll-out of the NOT OK? THAT’s OK COVID-19 mortgage forbearance borrower awareness campaign. Similarly in 2008, government, industry and trade associations rallied around Faith’s HOPE NOW alliance that saved millions of American families from losing their homes to foreclosure. Today, Schwartz sits on the following Boards: Redwood Trust., Gateway First Bank, RiskSpan, Inc., Class Valuation, QC Ally, Operation Homefront, Advisory board of FundingShield, LLC. Faith holds a BSBA in Accounting from Shippensburg State College and an MBA with a Finance concentration from the University of Pittsburgh

Nanci L. Weissgold, Esq.

MBA's 2025-2026 MORPAC Chair; Co-Chair, Financial Services Group, Alston & Bird, LLP

Nanci Weissgold co-chairs Alston & Bird's Financial Services Group and advises financial institutions and financial service providers on federal and state matters relating to mortgage lending and mortgage servicing, valuation, and other consumer lending issues as part of her national regulatory compliance and enforcement practice. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at legal and industry conferences and webinars, and has published numerous articles on mortgage banking, valuation, and consumer finance related topics. Her pragmatism preparing for, and responding to, CFPB, FHA, state, and other administrative actions is highly valued by her clients. Nanci is co-leader of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Legal Issues Committee, and the 2025-2026 MORPAC Chair.