By AAPL|2022-02-04T19:48:53-06:00January 28th, 2022|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

Jasen Miller came to our private lending world courtesy of a property development history that spanned countries (we're lucky to have you, Jasen)! If you have an opportunity to sit down with Jasen, ask him about his years in Mazatlan Mexico and his resulting enthusiasm for spear fishing. Read on to learn more about Jasen [...]

By AAPL|2021-12-06T21:03:22-06:00December 1st, 2021|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

This self-proclaimed "Most Huggable Person" (Editor's note: We second that!) loves to travel. So while giving him a bear hug at our upcoming Annual Conference, be sure to ask him about recent adventures, or his all-time favorite destination, Instanbul. He says he also loves Mercedes, but we're pretty sure he's talking about the car brand, not [...]

By AAPL|2021-10-04T19:07:10-05:00August 18th, 2021|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

When asked to tell us about his hobbies, Saurabh Shah, co-founder of InstaLend, told us he loves playing sports and eating ice cream. For a second we thought he said playing sports while eating ice cream — we are definitely now disappointed to realize this isn't the case. Anyway, when you run into Saurabh at [...]

By AAPL|2021-08-18T16:21:45-05:00August 18th, 2021|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

When asked what he does for fun, Chris Baggett, Director of Business Development at Essex Financial Services (new members as of July 2021!) will tell you fun is relative, but that he likes to stay active with cycling, hiking and lifting weights nearly every day of the week. So we guess Chris isn't into fun? [...]

By AAPL|2020-11-09T20:50:29-06:00November 9th, 2020|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

"Whatever you do today ... do it with the confidence of a four-year-old in a Batman Cape." - Unknown If ever there were words to live by, this modern take on confidence and self-motivation is it; and words that Kendra Rommel, sales manager at Civic Financial Services, takes to heart. This high-powered fitness enthusiast brings [...]

By AAPL|2020-07-22T18:31:33-05:00July 22nd, 2020|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

Fun Fact #1: Vermont, the 14th state admitted to the union in 1790, gets its name from "montagne verte" (French for green mountain) after the state's gorgeous Green Mountains. Fun Fact #2: We learned this because Jacob Therrien, a business development specialist at Bridge Loan Network, grew up around Vermont's mountains. Those origins gave him [...]

By AAPL|2020-04-06T13:34:36-05:00April 6th, 2020|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

During a workout cool-down (we're not quite sure Loren knows what that actually means), what started as an attempt to "see how fast [he] could go" on the indoor rowing machine led Loren Howard, founder and president of Prime Plus Mortgages to break the 20-year world record for indoor rowing (well, three world records, but [...]

By AAPL|2019-12-03T16:24:00-06:00December 3rd, 2019|Member Spotlight|0 Comments

Go on, we dare you to ask this self-proclaimed "car nut" what his all-time favorite automobile is. You'll enter a world of detail, and if you have a serious interest, can embark on an hours'-long conversation that will vary from rant (what the heck is a four door grand coupe?!), to fanboy (did you know [...]