Eloise Schmitz is an accomplished senior executive with experience in finance, strategy, and corporate finance. Eloise has over 23 years of experience in corporate finance including 11 years in corporate banking and 12 years with Charter Communications (a Fortune 500 company and the 4th largest broadband provider in the US) where she served as SVP of Finance and Strategy and CFO. Prior to Charter, Eloise had a successful banking career in corporate and commercial banking with Mercantile Bank in Saint Louis (now US Bank) and First Union National Bank in Charlotte (now Wells Fargo). During her banking career, she worked on creating asset backed securities for large ticket medical equipment and computer leases similar to the Mortgage Backed Security financing vehicles.
During her tenure with Charter, Eloise provided leadership in all areas of finance and accounting including balance sheet management, portfolio and asset management, the development of financial and business strategy, and risk management. While at Charter, the company grew its customer base 7 fold, primarily through acquisitions. Under her leadership, Charter raised over $75 billion in funding successfully accessing various capital markets funding sources. Eloise is a proven leader with strong relationships with public and private investors, analysts, agencies and Wall Street firms.
Eloise holds a Bachelor of Science in Management with a major in Finance from Tulane University. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of Enterprise Bank and Trust of Creve Coeur, MO and is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Villa Duchesne Oak Hill School, in St Louis, MO. Previously, Eloise was on the Advisory Boards of (i) Palace Capital Management, LLC, an investment management firm focused exclusively on alternative investments for accredited investors; and (ii) the H. Sophie Newcomb College Institute which supports academic and leadership programming for undergraduate women at Tulane University.
Over the past 24 years, Ken Niemann has been one of the nation’s most prolific residential mortgage originators. Starting in 1989 with a small mortgage bank in St. Louis producing first-time home buyer loans, he has grown a loan practice that regularly produces in excess of $200 million per year in closed loan production. His career personal production volume is in excess of $2 billion. His lending practice covers the spectrum of residential loan products, from first-time buyers to super jumbo borrowers.
Ken is an expert in all facets of mortgage origination. His experience in direct origination is supplemented with an established history of helping to grow successful full-service residential mortgage banking operations for several entities in the St. Louis area over the past two decades. He has a wide breadth of experience in secondary marketing, underwriting, regulatory compliance and process management. Most recently as an Executive Vice President for Stifel Bank & Trust, he has been an integral part of the team that developed the mortgage operation from $37 million in production in 2007 into a national operation that produces in excess of $ 1.5 billion in closed volume annually and is widely regarded as one of the Midwest’s highest quality mortgage origination companies.
Ken is a 1987 graduate of Vanderbilt University, with a BA in Economics. He lives in St. Louis with his wife Margee and three children. Ken enjoys playing golf, coaching his son's hockey teams, watching his daughters perform in gymnastics competitions and playing guitar in the infamous Spontaneous Nugent band.
Amir Kundalic is an accomplished senior technology executive with over 17 years of demonstrated career success in start-up, mid-size and Fortune 500 companies. He has extensive experience as a change agent in both established and high-growth businesses with strong ability to bridge the gap between technology and business functions. Amir has an excellent record of achievement in managing rapid organizational growth and building value through expertise in managing technology in mission critical markets. Amir is an expert in strategic planning and tactical execution, enterprise and cloud architecture, complete product and customer life-cycle management and security, compliance and risk management.
Prior to joining LoanNEX®, Amir led the development and implementation of several fraud detection systems for prominent Industry technology leaders including Kroll Factual Data. He was also Technology Leader for one of Industry's most prominent CRM software companies, Mortgage Returns. Amir designed and developed first-in-industry automated business solution to quantify, price and mitigate risk (mortgage fraud, collateral risk, appraisal risk, regulatory compliance, loss mitigation, loss forecasting and automated valuation models). His expertise was instrumental in defining industry standards for the risk assessment, fraud detection, and marketing solution products within the mortgage and financial industry. Amir was a member of the initial focus group that worked on including risk assessment segment in the MISMO Residential Mortgage Specification.
Amir teaches business, marketing, and various IT related courses at Harris-Stowe State University. He is a graduate of Webster University, with BS and University of Phoenix with MBA. He is a former member of Bosnian National Karate team.
