John leads the implementation of the Board of Directors' strategies and policies. He also serves as
a liaison coordinating the activities of the Advisory Board. As an industry leader, John is a
frequent contributor to trade publications and actively participates on panels, as a key note speaker
and company spokesperson.
John has over 22 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience in the financial services industry
with regards to launching new enterprises and successfully managing their rapid subsequent growth.
Prior to founding ComplianceEase in 2001, Mr. Vong co-founded Integrated Capital Group, Inc. (ICG)
headquartered in San Francisco, CA in 1986. ICG both advised and invested in several portfolio companies
developing leading technologies in the digital signature and web-based broadcasting spaces. In 1997, ICG
merged with the Money Store, Inc. (NYSE: MON) and was subsequently sold to First Union Bank, now Wells Fargo
Bank (NYSE: FTU, WFC) in 1998.
Mr. Vong has been very instrumental in the development of regulatory automation initiatives with the
Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) by creating an electronic examination (e-Exam) solution
for regulatory agencies.
John received the 2015 Vanguard Award from HousingWire magazine for extraordinary leadership in the housing
economy. He was also named the Technology All-Star by the Mortgage Banking magazine in 2010 for his
overall success and contribution to the industry. Mr. Vong was awarded the designations of Certified
Mortgage Banker (CMB®), the industry's highest achievement, in addition to the Certified Mortgage
Technologist (CMT) from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
John holds a BS in Business Administration from Berea College.
Michael Jackman, a distinguished veteran in financial services technology, is the newly appointed CEO of
ComplianceEase, bringing over 30 years of successful software management and advanced technology
companies serving the financial services industry. Michael, a member of the ComplianceEase advisory
board since 2004, is an industry visionary having played a key role the adoption of advanced technologies
such as AI and BPM by mortgage lenders and settlement service providers. He was CEO of INTERLINQ software
and guided the company through its sale to Harland (D+H) in 2002. Before INTERLINQ he was, President of the
easyLENDER division at Fiserv. In 1997 Jackman was President of the Financial Services Division of HNC
Software (Fair Isaac) and helped to take the company through its successful IPO. He was also CTO of
Accredited Home Lenders and Director of Development for TRW Real Estate Loan Services.
Michael holds a BEE degree from CUNY, was head of the MBA electronic data appraisal standards committee
and has been awarded the TRW Chairman's Award for Innovation and the USCF Connect Award for Falcon,
and AI based Fraud Detection Platform.
Chris brings to the team 20+ years of senior financial executive experience. His expertise
includes establishing financial strategy, building infrastructure to support growth, financial
analysis and reporting, as well as capital raising, venture capital, and M&A. He has worked with
businesses ranging from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to ComplianceEase, Chris served in senior financial roles for multiple companies in the financial
services, technology and industrial industries. He has also founded two companies, one of which completed
an IPO. Earlier in his career, he spent 8 years as an investment banker, where he executed over $40
billion of transactions.
Chris holds an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and a BS in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Eakman has been the Company's General Counsel since 2006, having previously served as outside
counsel to ComplianceEase from 2002-2005. He is responsible for all of the Company's legal matters.
Steven heads our Legal & Compliance Department, supervising the staff attorneys that perform the
legal research underpinning ComplianceEase's suite of automated compliance products. His team
also assists with the development of the Company's products to ensure that rule implementation
properly reflects applicable regulatory requirements. Steven also coordinates and supervises our
extensive network of outside regulatory counsel, who assist us by providing substantial expertise
in all areas of mortgage regulation, especially with respect to jurisdiction-specific issues.
Steven's prior experience includes a substantial background in providing strategic legal and business counsel
to emerging growth and established companies. He has worked on a variety of business matters, including secured
lending and debt finance, venture capital investment and securities, mergers and acquisitions, privacy issues,
intellectual property protection strategies, corporate organization and governance, and employment matters,
including structuring equity-based employee benefit arrangements. He also has substantial experience with
development and licensing agreements, domestic and international distribution of technology and products
(including ASP and other service-based software and content distribution, as well as conventional distributorship
agreements), and the formation of joint ventures and strategic partnerships.
Steven is a former partner in the Seattle, Washington office of Foster Pepper PLLC, one of the largest law
firms in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to joining Foster Pepper he was associated with Seattle-based Lane
Powell PC (in its Portland, Oregon office), and Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston, Massachusetts.
Steven holds a J.D. magna cum laude from Boston College Law School.
Frank has over 20 years of software design and development experience in mortgage banking.
He is the creator of the first regulatory compliance auditing system, author of the patent Loan
compliance auditing system and method and lead founder of Mavent. His many technological accomplishments
include the design, development and sales of the Foresight Loan Origination System, a fully automated document
generation and secondary marketing system Semanak XML rule engine, IPInteract technology, and a
very sophisticated loan product development and modeling system and regulatory compliance studio.
Frank has consulted with many lenders, loan origination systems and service providers across the country
in the finance industry. He is an expert with mortgage finance math, APR, TIL, auto finance and leasing,
payment stream calculations, reverse mortgage calculations and mortgage calculations and requirements.
Just prior to ComplianceEase, Mr. Tuttle consulted with several nationwide lenders and both domestic and
international technology providers including several LOS systems, industry Pricing Engines, Document
Vendors and Auto Dealer Platforms.
Frank holds a BEEE from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Sanjay Tibrewal is the Senior VP of Product Management at ComplianceEase. He has over 25 years of experience
in Engineering and Product Management. He started his career as an engineer, building early versions of
digital personal assistants. Sanjay spent the first half of his career managing large software products
at engineering organizations spread across the globe. The last 12 years, Sanjay has been in various
Executive roles heading up Product Management. Most recently he was heading up Product Management,
Engineering, Biz Dev and Data Science Teams at the Ads division in Tivo. Sanjay is also very entrepreneurial
and has started a couple companies, one of which was in the Mortgage Space, where he built a Pricing Engine.
Sanjay received his Bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology — Roorkee, and Masters from Boston University
in EE, specializing in Machine Learning. He received his MBA from Wharton Business School majoring in Finance
and Marketing.
As Senior Vice President of Sales & Client Success, Meagher leads the company's sales and client success teams.
A proven sales, client service and marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience, Meagher was
previously Vice President of National Sales at Pro Teck Valuation, a provider of residential real estate
property valuations for mortgage originators, servicers and investors. Prior to Pro Teck Valuation, she
held senior-level sales & marketing positions at EdgeMAC, provider of due diligence & document management
solutios, and UHS America, a provider of post close quality control solutions. Sheila was a founding team
member of LoanPerformance (now part of CoreLogic), who built the mortgage industry's first cooperative database
and predictive analytics software suite. For several years, Meagher ran a successful marketing agency,
counseling leading financial data and technology companies. Sheila holds a Bachelor of Science, Psychology
and Biology from Santa Clara University.
Daniel Smith is the senior vice president of Government Relations for ComplianceEase. In his role,
he works with regulators, vendors and lenders and furthers the adoption of the nation's leading provider
of risk and compliance solutions.
Smith is responsible for many company-wide initiatives, serves on the steering committee, and chairs the annual
Risk & Compliance Summit. Prior to his current role, Smith managed the sales team and previous to that engaged
in enterprise sales, bringing on many bank and non-bank clients. In his time with the company, Smith has fostered
collaborative relationships with many of the largest, leading lenders and strategic partners.
Prior to joining ComplianceEase in 2005, Smith managed a consultative team at Fiserv that aided lenders in valuing servicing portfolios.
Daniel holds a BA in Philosophy from Calvin College and an MBA from Duke University, where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.
Sarah Baker is a Technology Director who works to empower staff and design, deploy and maintain innovative technology
solutions of ComplianceEase.
She is responsible for both the corporate IT, the production operation and the security
of both. With 20 years in operations experience in a wide range of industries and organizations Sarah is passionate
about developing technical operations teams and implementing innovative technologies.
Sarah's notable accomplishments include the worldwide launch of Samsung's Milk Music, the design, deployment and maintenance of the Webvan nationwide network (the first large e-commerce grocery), the first operations manager of PAIX (the first telecom neutral Internet exchange) and network manager of the AltaVista search engine and Digital Equipment Coporation NSL Internet Gateway.
Sarah Baker holds a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Iowa.
