Awards & Recognition
★2025 HousingWire Vanguard award winner
★National Mortgage Professional's 2025 Best Military Lenders recognition for PennyMac
★HousingWire Tech100 winner recognition for PennyMac
Notable Facts
→Chairman & CEO of PennyMac Financial Services, a major US mortgage lender
→Led company to #2 overall lender position, #1 correspondent aggregator
→Previously co-head of Global Residential Mortgages at Morgan Stanley
→Senior managing director at Countrywide Financial for 16 years (1990-2006)
→Co-founded PennyMac in 2008 with Stanford Kurland
→Total compensation of $10.6M in 2024
→Owns 1.21% of PennyMac Financial Services
→UCLA graduate with BA in History
→Secured PennyMac's sponsorship of 2026 and 2028 US Olympic teams
→Co-leads Stanford L. Kurland Memorial Golf Classic, raised $4.6M for brain cancer research