Advisory Board
Cary G. Burch
Cary Burch has 20+ years of Leadership, Business and Information Technology experience in the mortgage and financial services industries. He has an MBA from Pepperdine University and has completed graduate studies at Harvard Business School and Oxford University, UK.
Cary was acknowledged as one of the TOP 20 IT Executives in the financial services industry for 2002/03 by the Financial Services Executive Forum in May of 2003.
Mr. Burch is a managing/investment member of Excape Partners, LLC. He is a mentor and coach, serves on company boards, provides contacts, and assists portfolio companies with execution, operations, strategic planning and fundraising. Excape Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on strategic investments and acquisitions in the mortgage lending technology space. The company acquires, provides seed and early-stage capital in the range of $250K-$2M, an investment range not generally served by VCs. Mr. Burch is currently President and CEO of Lender Support Systems, an Excape Partners portfolio company.
Recently, Mr. Burch was EVP/GM of Technology Solutions for (FNIS) Fidelity National Information Solutions a wholly owned subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial. Mr. Burch had business development and P&L responsibility for the solutions division that employed 500 professionals and generated $160M+ in revenues. The division provided software products, E-mortgage solutions, M&A analysis and professional services to the real estate industry and Fortune 500 customers.
Mr. Burch was previously an executive of The First American Corporation. He held the positions of CIO/GM of First American's Consumer Information Service Bureau Group and President of First American CreditNet. He also served as a board member of the First American Corporate Technology Strategy Board. Mr. Burch has had revenue/profit responsibilities, in addition to, operational responsibilities.
Mr. Burch is considered to be a highly reputable individual in the technology and business arenas with a keen business acumen and a strong management expertise. He has experience from "start up" operations to re-tooling existing companies and making them more profitable and competitive.
Prior to joining The First American Corporation, Cary was SVP/CIO of Advanta Mortgage from 1993 - 1998 and held operational responsibilities while managing Advanta's Technology Service Bureau Group. From 1989 - 1993 he was Vice President of Strategic Technologies and CIO for First Franklin Financial a start up full service mortgage banking operation.
Mr. Burch is an industry advocate and professional presenter on the advancement of Technology within the mortgage lending industry. He is a polished presenter and has been published in several industry and trade magazines.
Mr. Burch has held various board advisory and board director positions throughout the industry. He is viewed as a strong technology business executive with strong business development and executive relationship management expertise.
Prior to working in the financial services industry, Mr. Burch has held top technology management positions at, Advanta Corporation, Lyon's (a Sara Lee subsidiary) and Global Media an international marketing firm. At each position, Mr. Burch made significant contributions that made positive impacts on the financial profitability, competitive positioning and operational stability of each organization.
Cary Burch has developed a respectable reputation, numerous industry contacts and a tremendous track record in the areas of leadership and technology successes. He is viewed more as a business executive with a strong technology leadership background. Mr. Burch's team orientation, reputation, technology experience, business background, key industry relationships and proven leadership in the business environment will supplement any company's goal to become a world class enterprise and provider of products and services.
Steve Pavlos
Steve Pavlos has over 20 years experience primarily implementing technology infrastructures and solutions that support company growth. An extensive percentage of his experience is based in the mortgage industry, and Steve has a genuine understanding of the mortgage business, which provides him with tremendous insight into using technology to enhance lending operations.
Currently, Steve is the Chief Information Officer of Pinnacle Capital Mortgage Corporation, a wholesale mortgage banker that places high value on the use of forward-thinking technology to make workflow processes more efficient across the value chain. His responsibilities at PCM include day to day operations and overall strategies of the Information Technology Department, which covers managing PCM infrastructure systems and the relationships with vendor providers, as well as strengthening business processes that address employee and customer needs. Before PCM, Steve was the SVP Information Technology at Central Pacific Mortgage in Folsom, California.
Steve is an active member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. He brings a wealth of mortgage technology experience to Loan-Score's advisory board.
Mike Parthasarathy
Mike Parthasarathy served as Executive Vice President of Capital Markets at Lime Financial Group in Lake Oswego, Oregon. While with Lime, Mike has overseen growth in closed loan sales from $25 million to $120 million, per month.
When Mike began his mortgage career in 1998 at EquiFirst Mortgage Corporation, the company was funding $25 million per month in wholesale, non-prime lending. By analyzing and making changes in loan level execution and through the creation of a Pricing and Analytics Department, he developed a more sophisticated system of loan allocations. When he left the company, its wholesale, non-prime lending business had grown to $150 million, per month.
In 2001, Mike worked with the secondary marketing team at Decision One Mortgage. In 2002, Mike became Vice President of Secondary Marketing at Homeowners Loan Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, where he created wholesale guidelines and pricing, allowing the company to begin bulking its product and build on its investor relationships.
Mike graduated Cum Laude from the University of Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in English.
