CEO & CO-founder
eschmitz@loannex.com
Principal & Co-Founder
kniemann@loannex.com
Chief Technology Officer
akundalic@loannex.com
VP Product Development
awalther@loannex.com
SVP Business Development
rparekh@loannex.com
VP of Engineering, Distinguished Engineer
ckrueger@loannex.com
VP National Sales
ncarter@loannex.com
QA Manager
skrueger@loannex.com
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Over the past 27 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 homebuyer 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. Ken is an expert in all facets of mortgage origination and 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.
Amir Kundalic is an accomplished senior technology executive with over 22 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).
Andrew Walther has more than ten years’ experience in product development and implementation. He started his career with LoanNEX in 2013 and has been a constant during LoanNEX’s growth from a startup to Industry Leader. Andrew has been instrumental in client onboarding process, data analysis, and LoanNEX’s User Experience. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from Vanderbilt University.
Raj Parekh has more than 15 years senior sales & entrepreneurial executive experience in building startup companies, managing sales, marketing, and operations. Most recently Raj was the Vice President of New Market Development at CreditXpert. Prior to CreditXpert, Raj was the Managing Director of LoanScorecard, a cloud based automated underwriting system and product, pricing, and eligibility solution designed specifically for non-agency (Non-QM) lenders and investors. He has also held executive positions at Insellerate, ActiveProspect, LeadPoint, and was the founder and CEO of LeadROI one of the first lead management and CRM solutions for consumer direct lending. Raj holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Kansas, and a Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of Tulsa College of Law.
Chris Krueger’s tenure as a Principal Software Engineer began almost 3 decades ago in the gaming industry, starting and later selling his own company. Chris then continued his journey by transitioning to the mortgage fraud teams with First American then Kroll Factual Data. He has spent the last 9 years at LoanNEX implementing solutions, creating the rules and eligibility engine, building out APIs and integrations with Encompass, Equifax, TransUnion, and Kroll just to name a few. Chris holds a Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering from Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville.
Nancy is an accomplished leader with over thirty years of experience encompassing wholesale & correspondent production, sales & marketing, MBS trading, retail lending management, loss mitigation and REO. Well-versed and experienced in structured transactions and capital markets. Nancy has been instrumental in developing top notch, best-in-class mortgage banking platforms with Lehman Brothers, UBS, Morgan Stanley & others. Most recently she led the Non-QM efforts for the correspondent channel at Caliber Home Loans. She holds a BA from Texas Tech University.
