LERETA Promotes McGurer To Operations SVP

Keith Griffin

Jul 25, 2020

LERETA, a national real estate tax and flood services provider, promoted Jim McGurer, a 27-year mortgage industry expert, to senior vice president of tax operations. In his new role, McGurer will continue to transform LERETA’s tax line audit service and lead the teams that focus on managing tax agency intelligence and system synchronization.

Jim McGurer LERETA SVP

McGurer joined LERETA five years ago. Prior to LERETA, he was a vice president at Chase Home Lending for 19 years and previously spent five years in escrow administration at Huntington National Bank. He helped LERETA’s operations team enhance quality control measures as well as restructure agency system teams and build a tax line audit product that ensures constant data integrity between loan servicing systems and tax servicing platforms.

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Jul 25, 2020

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