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Oakleaf Adds Senior Business Development Manager

Mar 01, 2022
The Oak Leaf Group

Eric Christensen has extensive industry experience, including positions at FICO and Fannie Mae.

The Oakleaf Group, a provider of mortgage loan due diligence, data analytics, financial modeling, and advisory services for the mortgage & financial services industries, has appointed Eric Christensen as senior managing director of business development. 

Christensen will lead Oakleaf's efforts to expand its service offerings to new clients across the mortgage industry, the company said. He will work closely with the executive management team to promote new products and support growth as Oakleaf continues to advance its solutions.

He has more than 25 years of business development experience in predictive analytics and credit risk management in the global retail lending business and mortgage industry. Before joining Oakleaf, Christensen served as executive in product management for CoreLogic, a supplier of U.S. real estate, mortgage, consumer, and specialized business data. His extensive experience includes several other executive roles at various institutions, including LERETA, provider of comprehensive, technologically advanced tax and flood services to the financial services industry; Credit Data Solutions; UHS America; Fair Isaac Corp. (FICO); Fannie Mae; LoanPerformance, and E*TRADE.

Chris Milner, Oakleaf's president & CEO, said the company is pleased to welcome Christensen aboard. “His experience in digital transformation, his leadership in product development and management, and his strategic approaches for growth will be invaluable to Oakleaf," Milner said.

"Oakleaf has a premier reputation that has been built by veterans within the mortgage industry who bring a rock-solid understanding to support a wide array of client needs,” Christensen said. “With the challenges the mortgage industry is facing in 2022, Oakleaf is responding by expanding its sales distribution of products and services focused on mortgage servicers and mortgage originators. I'm thrilled to be a part of it."

The Oakleaf Group is a mortgage advisory firm providing a diverse set of services, solutions, and outsourced business processes to all mortgage industry segments. Founded in 2007 by mortgage industry veterans, its clients include originators, servicers, trustees, investors, aggregators and securitization sponsors, government entities and agencies, mortgage insurers, law firms, capital markets firms, banks, fintech firms, and industry service providers.

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