Regulatory, compliance, and technology experts

As an entrepreneur, investor, and strategic advisor to the financial services industry, Andy also leads Temerity Capital Partners, the Sandler family office and private investment company, which invests in and advises early-stage FinTech and RegTech companies. He founded Treliant Risk Advisors, a preeminent privately owned and operated financial services industry consulting firm; and founder of The Sandler Family Foundation, which focuses on impact investing and supporting social entrepreneurship. Andy also previously led Buckley Sandler, a premier financial services law firm.

For the past 30 years, Andy has been a trusted legal advisor and counsel in significant litigation and enforcement matters to the financial services industry first as a Partner at Skadden and later as Chairman and Executive Partner of Buckley Sandler. Chambers USA has recognized Andy as “one of the leading stars of the financial services regulatory firmament.”

Andy holds a JD and MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton School of Business; an MA from the University of Warwick (U.K., Rotary Foundation Fellow), and a BA from Union College. He is a fellow in the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. His leadership roles at the American Bar Association Litigation and Business Law Sections have included Chair of the Consumer and Civil Rights Committee and Vice Chair of the Banking Law Committee.

Andy has been named a recipient of HousingWire's 2019 Vanguard Award in recognition of his achievements and influence within the housing industry.

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Luke Wimer is Chief Operating Officer of Asurity. He manages the daily operations of the firm and is responsible for executing its mission, vision, and strategy.

Prior to Asurity, Luke served as EVP of Global Operations and CIO for MoneyGram, International; Principal at Thomas H. Lee Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm; Vice President of Technology at Capital One; and as Director, PwC Consulting. Luke holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Dr. Anurag Agarwal is the president of Asurity's compliance risk analysis and report platform RiskExec.

He is a recognized expert in fair lending, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), and related areas. As the main architect, designer, and developer of the platform, Anurag continues to lead the development of the RiskExec line of compliance technologies.

During his career, Anurag has consulted with and advised large financial institutions in the areas of compliance, fair lending, statistical analysis, and regulatory risk management.

Dr. David Greenwood is the Chief Technology Officer at Asurity. He oversees all aspects of the technology vision, strategy, and execution for the firm, ensuring our innovative compliance solutions meet rigorous standards for quality, security, and resiliency.

David has significant breadth and depth of executive leadership experience in IT management, technical strategy, solution design, and technology planning, development and delivery. Prior to Asurity Technologies, David served as Chief Information Officer at Promontory Financial Group, where he had executive leadership over corporate information systems and business applications. David was also a Managing Director, Technology, in the U.S. tax business of PricewaterhouseCoopers, with a focus on leveraging new technology to deliver innovative products and services. Prior to PwC, David was a senior technology leader and business line CIO at Genworth Financial. He previously served as the Vice President of Architecture and Engineering at Federal Reserve Information Technology, leading a portfolio of application and infrastructure initiatives aimed at modernizing the U.S. payment system. He began his career at IBM, where he held a number of senior management and technology leadership positions.

David holds a Ph.D. from University College London and a Master of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Melissa Hammer is Senior Vice President of Fair Lending Product Management for RiskExec, Inc. and brings over 20 years of broad financial industry risk and compliance expertise to the company. Most recently, she served as TD Bank's Vice President and Senior Group Manager of Compliance, U.S. Conduct Risk and Ethics.

Throughout her career, Melissa has focused her efforts on managing enterprise risk and ensuring regulatory compliance, including CRA, fair lending, and UDAAP. Melissa is a highly credentialed (CRCM, CERP, CCEP) professional, with broad public speaking and publication experience. Prior to joining the Asurity organization, she earned her BBA in Finance from Columbus State University, and her MBA from Auburn University.

David Roell is Vice President of Compliance Products and Analytics. He is responsible for the design, development, and commercial advancement of RiskExec’s business analytics product suite.

Prior to joining the Asurity organization, David served as Lead Data Scientist, HMDA Operations at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In that role, he combined his passion for financial markets with extraordinary data analytics skills to develop quality assurance initiatives, testing processes, and reporting dashboards to enable data visualization and the tracking of key metrics. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Diane Jenkins focuses her practice on mortgage banking regulatory compliance, assisting mortgage lenders and brokers in complying with compliance laws and regulations.

She has extensive experience practicing as in-house counsel and compliance officer for both mortgage originations and servicing companies. In addition, she has worked in the corporate law section of a private law firm where her practice included business law, estate planning, and employment law.

Dr. Loc Khuong is Chief Financial Officer at Asurity, where he manages all aspects of finance, leasing, treasury, risk management, financial reporting, financial analysis and audit.

Loc has spent more than 20 years in senior management positions as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Finance and Senior Director of Finance within various industries, including financial services, technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical distribution, manufacturing and services.

Loc is a seasoned financial leader with an accomplished background in building corporate infrastructure, financial systems and controls, financial planning and analysis, and internal, external reporting, audit and private placement. He has been consistently successful as an internal consultant in linking accounting, financial, and analytical skills to executives to deliver solutions. Loc has international experience with successful activities in Merger & Acquisition in the US, Europe, Mexico, Latin America and Asia.

Loc Khuong is an Accounting graduate from Loyola University of Chicago, holds an MBA and a Doctorate in Accounting from NSU.

Chris Gray has 13 years of experience managing partnerships with his clients by providing meaningful solutions to complex problems. Through software, services, and industry insights, Chris has helped his clients make meaningful real-time business decisions while ensuring compliance in their respective jurisdictions.

As VP of Business Development Chris has experience in selling enterprise solutions and advisory services to C-Suite level executives. Chris specializes in HMDA, CRA, Fair Lending, Redlining as well as enterprise ERM/GRC, ALM, Stress Testing, BSA/AML, & Anti-Fraud products, and services.

Katey McBurney is the Director of Client Success & Engagement for RiskExec at Asurity.

Katey has expertise in client experience, building and fostering strong relationships with her customers, collecting feedback, and addressing any questions or concerns that her clients may have. Katey is the former Associate Director of Customer Success at WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company. There she helped build their customer experience program.

Katey’s primary duty is to be the main point of contact to clients that have purchased licenses for Asurity's RiskExec product. RiskExec is a browser-based SaaS compliance analysis and reporting solution that automates HMDA, CRA, and fair lending processes. Katey’s duties include owning the entire client lifecycle, from pre-sale support to implementation and through the client’s lifespan with the product.

Ed Kramer is a Senior Advisor on the Asurity team. Ed brings decades of financial services experience and a wealth of expertise in regulatory and compliance matters, the mortgage and software industries, and business management and development.

Mr. Kramer serves as a Director of the recently created ICE Mortgage Technology (IMT). IMT combines the innovation and expertise of Ellie Mae, Simplifile and MERS, as the only provider focused on automating the entire mortgage process - from consumer engagement through loan registration and every step in between. IMT offers the only digital network that applies robust data connections across the industry to virtually every loan in the market.

Ed is also the Independent Director of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS). He has served in that capacity since April 2011. MERS serves as the mortgagee in the land records for loans registered on the MERS® System, and is a nominee (or agent) for the owner of the promissory note.The MERS® System is a national electronic registry system that tracks the changes in servicing rights and beneficial ownership interests in mortgage loans that are registered on the System.

From April 2016 to March 2020 he was a member of the Senior Advisory Board for Treliant, LLC, a multi-disciplinary compliance, risk management and strategic advisory firm for the financial services industry and consumer-oriented businesses.

Mr. Kramer was Executive Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services from late 2006 to the end of 2015. Prior to this position, Mr. Kramer was Deputy Superintendent of Banks in charge of the Consumer Services Division of the New York State Banking Department, which is responsible for performing consumer compliance and fair lending examinations and administering the Community Reinvestment Act. The division also coordinates economic development and CRA outreach activities with banks and community organizations.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kramer served as First Senior Vice President and Director of Residential Mortgage Lending at The Dime Savings Bank of New York, and was Executive Assistant to the Superintendent of Banks.

Mr. Kramer is a member of the Northeastern Regional Board of Directors of Operation Hope, Inc. and serves on the Advisory Board of Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City (NHS). He is a lecturer at Pace University Center for Governance, Reporting & Regulation.

Mr. Kramer received his MBA in Management, with distinction, from Pace University.

Michael Garcia is the Director of Compliance for RiskExec, Inc., bringing almost 20 years of banking and mortgage industry experience to the company. Most recently, he worked as a Compliance Examiner in the Department of Depositor and Consumer Protection for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Over the years, Michael has gained technical expertise in a myriad of consumer protection laws and regulations, as well as CRA, fair lending, and UDAP.  Michael is a highly credentialed professional, receiving his appointment as a Commissioned Examiner in 2015 and serving as the Mortgage Banking SME of the Austin/Houston territories from 2017-2021.

Arielle Gilman is the Director of Implementation and Training for RiskExec, Inc. at Asurity. Arielle brings extensive knowledge and experience relating to collection, analysis, and validation of data collected under HMDA, CRA, and other fair lending regulations. Throughout her career as a Compliance Officer and Compliance Consultant, Arielle has developed a deep understanding of both the compliance and operational challenges facing banks and credit unions related to HMDA and CRA data and has served as a subject matter expert in these areas for the past decade. In addition, Arielle is currently working towards obtaining her Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) designation.

Brett Lewis is the VP of Software Development, RiskExec. He leads design, development, implementation, and support of the RiskExec line of compliance technologies in addition to providing innovative, custom solutions for RMS clients. He has continually sought to improve the offering by listening to the needs of clients, taking advantage of new technologies, and integrating cutting edge statistical and geospatial tools and services.

Brett has spent 15 years providing software tools, service, and support to the regulatory compliance industry. In addition to his work in technology, he has worked with a broad range of institutions in gathering, managing and submitting HMDA and CRA data. He has also operated as a consultant and manager on numerous large-scale loan review projects for some of the nation’s largest lenders. As a programmer analyst for ERS Group he developed a work order management system for a major energy provider and a real-time simultaneously ascending auction system for commodities trading in addition to his work on multiple compliance products. He has also served as an IT consultant for numerous businesses in various industries providing guidance and support as well building and maintaining custom solutions for property management, energy trading, and retail point of sale.

Brad McFarling is Vice President, Forms Development for Asurity.

Mr. McFarling has been with AsurityDocs since 1987 and has been working in the legal software industry since graduating with a B.S. Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics in 1985.

Besides his duties with the Forms Development team, he is also the Senior IT Director for AsurityDocs, the senior software developer and systems architect for the legacy AsurityDocs’ document preparation system. Mr. McFarling pioneered many of today’s mortgage industry technologies such as remote document delivery, dynamic document templates and business to business integrations before they became the industry mainstays they are today. Mr. McFarling has also published articles in various trade journals.

As director of administrative services, Yvette oversees the long-range planning, direction and day to day management of all administrative operations and functions at Asurity.

Yvette has more than 30 years of experience working with C-Suite Executives and Senior Government Officials in various administrative roles. She has more than 20 years of experience working for various law firms including Gaston & Snow, Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Mayer Brown. Yvette has worked with Managing and Senior Partners on corporate mergers and acquisitions, registration statements, litigation, employment law and real estate. She worked for more than 8 years at the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) both on Wall Street in NY and in Washington D.C. Her role in New York included serving as the right arm to the Executive Vice President and General Counsel and working closely with the CEO, Board of Directors and Management Committee members. While at the NYSE in Washington, D.C. she served as the Budget Administrator, the PAC (Political Action Committee) Administrator and the right arm to the Chief Lobbyist and Head of the office. In that role, she worked daily with senior lobbyists and was the direct liaison for schedulers and staff on Capitol Hill and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and handled all public affairs matters and administrative logistics. Most recently, Yvette served as Practice Administrator for the Chief Operating Officer and as Executive Assistant to the CEO and Founder of Promontory Financial Group in DC.