Industry veterans held senior roles at their ex-firm
Mortgage solutions firm LenderLive has announced the appointments of Rob Clements as new CEO and John Surface as new COO, effective immediately.
The new appointees are banking-industry veterans who previously worked for more than 20 years at EverBank. They have been credited with playing roles in taking EverBank public in 2012, as well as its $2.6 billion-acquisition by global financial-services firm TIAA. They helped raise more than $1.2 billion in growth capital for their former firm, said LenderLive.
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Clements was EverBank’s chairman of the board and CEO from 1997. He completed a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree from Harvard Business School.
Surface joined EverBank in 1994 and served as senior executive vice president for the company. He received a bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University and a master’s degree from Harvard Business School. “Over the last few years, LenderLive has diversified and strengthened its product offering, expanded its client base and built a business with considerable expansion possibilities. This is an ideal situation that allows us to bring our experience building and transforming EverBank to another ascending company with significant momentum and growth potential,” said Surface.
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LenderLive founder and ex-CEO Rick Seehausen remains with the company and moves into the role of vice chairman. "Rob and John are well-respected, talented professionals who I trust will accelerate LenderLive’s upward trajectory and carry out the growth plans that we’ve put in place over the last few years,” said Seehausen.
