SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (PRWEB)
April 06, 2020

CommLoan, a leading CRE lending tech company connecting borrowers to lenders, just announced John Dorsey as the President of Sales and Business Development. John will be responsible for the leadership of the CommLoan sales team, developing new business opportunities, and working alongside CEO Mitch Ginsberg on strategic direction of the company.

Dorsey has more than 20 years of senior management experience, including 15 years of business relationship development and plan execution at a national multi-family utility billing service company. Most recently, he was Chief Sales Officer of Conservice, LLC.

“I am very excited to have John Dorsey as a member of the CommLoan team,” said Mitch Ginsberg, CEO and founder of CommLoan. As CommLoan continues its rapid growth and focuses on expansion to new US markets, John’s sales leadership and his strong background in building top performing sales teams will accelerate CommLoan’s growth. We are thrilled to have him onboard!” stated Mitch.

“I am honored to be joining the CommLoan team,” said John Dorsey. “I believe CommLoan has a great business model with a talented management team, contributing to its unique position to capitalize on the everchanging commercial lending environment. As technological utilization continually evolves to optimize business transactions, the commercial mortgage industry is being left behind. This is why CommLoan introduced a new way of streamlining the borrowers’ experience through the CUPID (Commercial Underwriting Pricing Index Data) platform. I believe CommLoan is in a position to disrupt the ideology of a fragmented commercial lending market through technology designed to improve the borrowers’ experience with the lenders.”

As one of the original founders and Chief Sales Officer of Conservice, Dorsey successfully grew revenue from 0 to 80+ million. He led the company through strategic partnerships, led them to win numerous notable service awards and industry recognition before exiting through a private equity acquisition of Conservice.

Dorsey earned a BA Degree in Geography from Arizona State University and an MBA in International Business from Grand Canyon University. Prior to his formal education, John Dorsey proudly served his country in the US Army Armored Division.

About CommLoan

Founded in 2014, CommLoan is the true commercial real estate lending marketplace with the innovative platform CUPID. CommLoan has streamlined the multifaceted process of obtaining commercial real estate financing. With the touch of a button, CUPID can sort through hundreds of lenders and thousands of loan programs to find the right loan that fits borrowers’ specific needs. Combined with concierge service throughout the process, leaves the borrower with a world class lending experience. Further information about how CommLoan’s technology disrupts the commercial real estate mortgage industry, please visit https://www.commloan.com

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PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. (PRWEB)
April 03, 2020

Financial services industry provider of outsourced compliance services, ComplianceWorks Inc. has made an unprecedented move to voluntarily reduce its fees to existing and new clients by an average of 19% in response to the COVID-19 health crisis and the economic damage being caused by preventative restrictions on businesses.

In most cases, the revenues of clients of ComplianceWorks Inc. are directly tied to changes in the market because they typically collect a percentage fee of the market value of thier clients’ accounts. Thus with the broad market decline, investment advisory firms can be looking at 20% – 30% lower revenues for the 2nd quarter of 2020. Depending on the ripples in the economy of the COVD-19 restrictions, further unfavorable market reactions are possible.

When asked about the decision to temporarily reduce fees, Jeff Groves, President of ComplianceWorks Inc. responded, “The decision to provide relief to our clients is two-fold: 1) A central part of our service is the relationship with our clients that is more of a partnership due to the central role compliance has within these firms. While it’s easy to talk about being a partner when marketing or when all is well, the true test is will you be a partner when things do not go well? By reducing our fees we are in the same boat as our clients as all of us work towards recovery; 2) Understanding that your client partner is looking at an immediate heavy hit to revenues that will push the cost of compliance to a higher percentage of their cost structure. With some vendors you could just terminate the contract. But the compliance obligations of these firms do not go away with a contract termination. Many of our clients do not have the knowledge and/or resources in-house to affect their compliance program. Thus, terminating compliance assistance will also have the effect of increasing regulatory risk exponentially. As such we consider this our responsibility to continue to aid our clients in working through this difficult period rather than being insensitive their situation.”

Client reactions in addition to being effusively thankful have also had an element of disbelief. They understand ComplianceWorks commitment to being a good partner, but in the words of one client, “I’m almost, but not quite, speechless! This is very thoughtful and extremely appreciated. If only our other industry related vendors did the same life would be so much easier but I’m not holding my breath. In the meantime, I’m actually looking forward to the time when you raise our fee back to normal….” Regardless of industry, the sentiment of looking forward to returning to “normal” provides comfort now and something we all can look forward to.

About ComplianceWorks

ComplianceWorks was born in 2007 out of the need for small to medium-sized investment advisers and broker-dealers to have access to professional compliance help at a reasonable cost. Typically, principals of firms trying to grow their businesses soon discover that keeping abreast of compliance regulations and their compliance obligations is onerous and falls by the wayside in favor of revenue producing tasks.

ComplianceWorks’ consultants have learned compliance in real-time corporate environments, on the job as CCOs and other high-ranking compliance professionals which gives them an understanding of where compliance fits into the bigger business picture.

For more information, contact info@cwicompliance.com

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http://www.cwicompliance.com

ComplianceWorks Inc.

P.O. Box 6

Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB)
April 02, 2020

Life insurers now have a faster, more cost-effective way to digitize distribution: with the right technology and strategic guidance from a resource that has successfully launched a D2C experience in-market.

Sureify, the leading digital platform for life and annuity insurance companies, has partnered with Craig Simms, former CMO of a niche life insurance company and now Principal of Forest Lake Consulting. Simms led his company from agent-only distribution to a modern multi-distribution platform. Using the Sureify Lifetime platform, Simms played a critical role in building, testing, and launching the first multi-product direct to consumer (D2C) online quote and apply experience in the U.S.

“Most insurers know that they need to modernize and integrate distribution, but they really don’t have a direction,” Simms said. “I’m happy to work with Sureify clients to accelerate their digital D2C/agent-facing strategy using Sureify’s best-in-class platform.”

The Sureify Lifetime platform is built for life and annuity insurers to acquire, service, and engage customers. Now Sureify customers can tap into Simms’s digital insurance expertise in these areas:

Life insurance distribution strategic planning

• transforming customer engagement for digital age consumers
• creating a D2C plan that can also support existing agent distribution
• understanding and leveraging Sureify’s tools to satisfy A.M. Best’s new carrier innovation expectation

Implementation guidance for life and annuity companies that have engaged Sureify to bring products to market digitally

• reducing time to market and costs
• creating an initial D2C plan (targets, integration with current distribution, digital marketing strategy, branding, etc.)
• assembling internal and external resources to build out the plan

“My team and I were in the trenches with Sureify,” Simms said. “I can help companies shorten the timeframe and the cost of deploying a direct-to-consumer or digital agent experience because I’ve been there. With Sureify’s Lifetime platform, I can help steer them away from the challenges they might face in building out the process.”

The typical Sureify Lifetime platform implementation takes three to six months.

“Time is money, and we’re glad that our customers can rely on Forest Lake Consulting to guide them through their transformation,” Sureify Senior Vice President Bryan Padgette said. “Skip the tedious RFP process and get a clear roadmap from an expert who’s done it before.”

About Sureify

Sureify’s mission is to modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping carriers acquire, service, and engage their customers with one enterprise platform: Lifetime. We enable omnichannel sales with LifetimeAcquire, a product that drives placement rates via quoting, e-application, automated underwriting, and new business transmission. With LifetimeService, insurers are offering their in-force customers comprehensive self-service portals and native applications. Lastly, the product that started it all, LifetimeEngage, fosters a lifelong relationship between carriers and their policyholders with multifaceted engagement programs and analytics, leading to greater lifetime value of each policyholder.

Learn more about http://www.sureify.com.

About Forest Lake Consulting

Forest Lake Consulting helps life insurance companies create direct-to-consumer and agent distribution in a contemporary, digital ecosystem. This ecosystem drives organizations forward and attracts new, younger customers while respecting the role of traditional distribution. With 30 years of life insurance distribution experience, Principal Craig Simms is known for his expertise in building the first multiproduct direct-to-consumer (D2C) online quote and apply in the U.S.

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
April 02, 2020

VC News Daily, one of the leading web sites for news on Venture Capital, is excited to announce the launch of its revamped Celebrity VCs feature: https://vcnewsdaily.com/Celebrity_VCs.php, which profiles the biggest celebrities investing in startups.

Celebrities of all types—actors, athletes, and singers—are grabbing the VC bull-by-the-horn, and investing in early stage companies. From Justin Timberlake to Snoop Dogg, Kevin Durant to Will Smith, celebrities are taking stakes in the hottest startups.

And some celebrities aren’t just stopping at the occasional investment. Celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher, Aaron Rodgers, and Joe Montana even have their own Venture Capital firms.

“As they build their brands across business and entertainment platforms, celebrities are finding a natural symbiosis with startups,” stated Editor, Mike Stern. “By enticing celebrity investors, startups gain instant cache and credibility. For their part, the celebrities obtain equity positions at prices typically reserved only for institutional investors.”

Household corporate names such as Uber, Airbnb, Spotify, WarbyParker, and Slack are just a handful of the companies that have tapped celebrities as investors.

About VC News Daily

VC News Daily is the #1 daily digest of Venture Capital financings, originally launched by Massinvestor in the Summer of 2011. Massinvestor https://massinvestor.com/ is the leading publisher of Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Family Office Databases https://familyofficedata.net/.

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SALISBURY, England (PRWEB)
April 02, 2020

Hetti Barkworth-Nanton joins Ploughshare from Vodafone where she led the transformation of the UK Enterprise Business. Hetti has spent the last 25 years in financial, transformation and commercial leadership roles across major blue chip organisations, often working with leading edge technologies. She is renowned for her highly creative, collaborative and engaging approach with teams and partners, and her skills are going to be crucial to lead Ploughshare into the next phase of its evolution.

On her appointment, Hetti commented:

“The work Ploughshare do is tremendously exciting. It has the potential to be fundamental to the future of UK plc and society as a whole, and drive both commercial value and broaden the use of innovations funded by taxpayers’ investment in science and technology.

“I am privileged to lead Ploughshare into the next stage of their evolution. I very much look forward to working with their fantastic team, Simon and the Board, and our partners including Dstl, AWE and MOD to make the world a better place.”

Ploughshare’s Chairman, Simon Devonshire OBE, on appointing Hetti remarked:

“From climate change to the growth of an ageing society; from obesity to the emergence of new diseases, we now live in an era that is unprecedented in its opportunity for science to deliver a positive impact for people and planet.

“I am delighted to announce the appointment of Hetti Barkworth-Nanton as CEO of Ploughshare. Hetti’s leadership of delivering transformational innovation for globally significant corporates such as British Airways, BT and Vodafone will be a huge asset to Ploughshare Innovation’s mission to commercialise innovation born in Government owned scientific laboratories such as Dstl.”

Hetti’s role is effective today and succeeds James Kirby who is retiring having led Ploughshare for the last six years.

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ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (PRWEB)
April 01, 2020

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Hodnett Cooper Real Estate today announced its Brunswick office location is the recipient of the prestigious Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Round Table Award for residential units in 2019 for the US South Region. In addition, the Brunswick office location was recognized for outstanding 4th quarter performance, placing first in the number of residential units sold in the region.

The Round Table Award honors the top three network member offices from each U.S. region, ranked among offices of similar size. Hodnett Cooper Real Estate was recognized during a special ceremony at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices’ annual Sales Convention in Nashville earlier this month, where Missy Neu, Vice President of Development, accepted the award for the Brunswick office location.

“We are thrilled to have earned our spot as one of the top-producing network offices within our region. Our team works hard and are so committed to their clients. The credit for this achievement belongs to those dedicated agents in our Brunswick office location,” shared Pat Hodnett Cooper, owner and broker.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Hodnett Cooper Real Estate, which is independently owned and operated, became a member of the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices brokerage network, operated by HSF Affiliates LLC, in 2017. Since that time, the company and several of its Realtors have earned a host of honors and awards.

About Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Hodnett Cooper Real Estate

Hodnett Cooper Real Estate is a family-owned and operated company with four offices throughout the Golden Isles offering a full range of real estate services including real estate sales, residential rentals, property management and commercial sales. The brokerage is the premier real estate company in southeast coastal Georgia with a professional and diverse team of agents. Visit http://www.BHHSHodnettCooper.com.

About Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, based in Irvine, CA, is a brand-new real estate brokerage network built for a new era in residential real estate. The network, among the few organizations entrusted to use the world-renowned Berkshire Hathaway name, brings to the real estate market a definitive mark of trust, integrity, stability and longevity.

About HSF Affiliates LLC

Irvine, CA-based HSF Affiliates LLC operates Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Prudential Real Estate and Real Living Real Estate franchise networks. The company is a joint venture of which HomeServices of America, Inc., the nation’s second-largest, full-service residential brokerage firm, is a majority owner. HomeServices of America is an affiliate of world-renowned Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Contact:

Catherine Maybank

(912) 638-5450

catherine@hcrega.com

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