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First Option Mortgage Adds Two Industry Vets To Its Ranks

Jun 10, 2020
First Option Mortgage named Fobby Naghmi executive vice president, national sales manager, and James Carroll as retail operations director

First Option Mortgage named Fobby Naghmi executive vice president, national sales manager, and James Carroll as retail operations director.
 
Fobby Naghmi executive vice president, national sales managerNaghmi (pictured right) previously served as senior vice president of the Eastern Division of Planet Home Lending. Additionally, Naghmi started his own mortgage company in 2000, Horizon Mortgage Corporation. He grew the company to four locations across the D.C. metro market with an emphasis on assisting first-time homebuyers in emerging markets.
 
James Carroll as retail operations directorBefore joining First Option, Carroll (pictured left) was EVP and owner of The Carroll Mortgage Group. He started at the company as an assistant to his father in 1996, moving up through the ranks to the positions of loan officer, underwriter and operations manager. Carroll managed loan originators, processors and underwriters, as well as operations at the firm, before joining First Option.

 
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