Founder
Origna8
Mike Fawaz is one of the mortgage industry's most influential leaders and the founder of Origna8, a company reimagining how independent mortgage brokers build, manage, and grow their businesses. After spending 15 years leading one of the nation's premier wholesale lending organizations, Mike set out to create a better model for the broker channel. Origna8 brings industry-leading technology, lending, operations, marketing, and business resources together in one connected ecosystem, giving brokers the control, flexibility, and choice to compete at the highest level while remaining fiercely independent. Today, Mike is helping define the future of independent mortgage lending by putting the power back where it belongs, with the broker.