Leah Sommerville is DocMagic’s Director of Sales, responsible for leading our sales team with nearly a decade of experience in the eMortgage industry. She is a thought leader and frequent speaker on managing digital mortgage transformation, sharing her passion about empowering the mortgage industry towards the future of lending.

Leah has been honored with numerous industry awards, including Mortgage Professional America’s 50 Elite Women in Mortgage, Mortgage Professional Association’s Elite Women Award, National Mortgage Professional’s 40 Under 40 Influential Mortgage Professionals, Progress in Lending Association’s NextGen Leader Award, Progress in Lending’s Trailblazer Award, and the HousingWire Rising Star Award.

Prior to DocMagic, she held sales executive and director of marketing positions in the mortgage technology industry. Leah holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Jonathan Kolodziej represents all types of consumer financial service providers in regulatory compliance, examination and enforcement matters. Through this work, he has assisted bank and non-bank mortgage servicers, mortgage originators, debt collectors, depository institutions, credit card issuers, small dollar lenders, reverse mortgage companies, investment firms, and various industry trade associations.

Jonathan’s regulatory compliance practice centers around helping clients ensure that their operations are in compliance with applicable federal and state consumer financial laws. In this role, he helps clients assess the impact of new rules and regulations and adapt to changes
in the regulatory environment. Jonathan is able to analyze and synthesize complex regulatory changes and then explain the legal and operational impact to business, compliance, and legal stakeholders. When assessing an entity’s compliance or beginning the implementation process for a regulatory change, he leads clients through gap analyses, risk assessments and targeted reviews. He routinely reviews and provides feedback on policy and procedure documents, form notices, and training modules. As necessary, Jonathan also helps develop and execute appropriately tailored remediation plans.

Jonathan understands and appreciates that, in a heightened regulatory environment, the ability to prove your compliance is often equally as important as actually being compliant. As such, when helping financial service providers structure their day-to-day operations, he makes
sure that policies, procedures, training and oversight functions are in place and structured so that an entity can quickly and definitively demonstrate their compliance to state and federal regulators. During examinations and other reviews, Jonathan regularly assists with managing and drafting responses to supplemental requests, developing successful exam strategies, rebutting preliminary findings, and responding to allegations of legal violations. He has helped clients with examinations initiated by various state regulatory bodies, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Multistate Mortgage Company (MMC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Because of his familiarity with clients’ operational structures and applicable law, Jonathan is also able to assist with responding to complaints and allegations of regulatory violations made by borrowers, state attorneys general and other regulatory bodies

As a result of his familiarity with various federal consumer financial laws and regulations, Jonathan has taught regulatory compliance issues at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Schools of Mortgage Banking | and II. He is also a frequent speaker during webinars and trade
association presentations on regulatory compliance issues.

Since 2021, Jonathan has taught Real Property Security as an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

John Wines, Chief Strategy Officer at Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group, leads enterprise-wide innovation in lending, overseeing IT, data, and sales training. His work drives scalable growth at Atlantic Bay.

John earned HousingWire Vanguard honors in 2023 for “moving markets forward” — recognized for launching Atlantic Bay’s AI chatbot, modern POS, and systems architecture that empower both borrowers and staff. With more than 20 years in operations, sales, and mortgage tech, John brings hands-on insight into tech leadership, vendor strategy, and digital transformations in the mortgage space.

Prior to working at Atlantic Bay, John held roles at Homestead Mortgage Corporation and Wells Fargo. He graduated from James Madison University in 2001 with a BBA in Finance.

Jay Promisco brings more than 20 years of executive leadership experience building high-performance mortgage platforms at scale. Known for blending operational rigor with forward-leaning technology adoption, he has led initiatives spanning AI-enabled underwriting, cost-to-originate optimization, digital production models, and enterprise growth strategies.

A mortgage industry partner since 2013, Verse is an AI-enabled communication platform that fully manages lead conversations for you. Verse works by automatically engaging leads via SMS, qualifying them, and booking appointments with qualified leads—and nurturing leads that aren’t ready yet. With Verse, loan officers only receive warm, qualified leads.

Ocrolus is a leading AI-powered workflow and analytics platform for lenders. We automate underwriting workflows across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending, delivering a best-in-class solution for analyzing financial documents. Our platform classifies documents, extracts key data, detects fraud, and delivers comprehensive cash flow and income analysis—all with exceptional precision and reliability. With Ocrolus, lenders can streamline the borrower experience, scale operations efficiently, and manage risk with greater confidence.

Joe Welu is the founder and CEO of Total Expert, the fintech software leader that launched the first customer experience platform purpose-built for modern financial institutions. Since 2012, Joe has led Total Expert’s vision, culture, and growth to more than 300 employees today. The company powers CRM, marketing, and customer engagement for more than 170 financial institutions—from leading community banks and credit unions to 15 of the top 25 U.S. banks and lenders. Total Expert’s growth has skyrocketed since its inception, being named the #1 CRM platform by STRATMOR Group and earning top spots on the Inc. 5000 and HousingWire Tech100.

Alec Hanson is a contemporary leader within the Mortgage Industry.  Constantly striving to improve, he began his career in origination in 2004 funding over $85M and was named Rookie of the Year by Scotsman’s Guide. Every subsequent year, Hanson landed on Scotsman’s Top 200 Originator list finishing his best year at $185M. From there, Hanson began coaching and growing a successful branch network in Orange County with his peak year in 2010 funding over $1B at the branch level. Hanson has received Housing Wire’s Rising Star award both in 2017 and 2019.  Previously he has served as the Senior Vice President of Production for loanDepot for the West Division, overseeing approximately $8B in annual production and as the Chief Marketing Officer for loanDepot. Currently, he serves as the Head of Revenue Development and Growth for the company.  A dynamic coach and thought leader, Hanson believes in leading and coaching within the trenches of the mortgage business.  

He is the author of loanDepot’s Modern Lending Playbook: a strategic and tactical tool designed to equip, train, and evolve the traditional mortgage professional’s skill sets into the modern era. Alec is also the author of “Bypassed: A Modern Guide for Local Mortgage Pros Left Behind by the Digital Customer,” which details a systemic approach to help Mortgage Professionals succeed in the digital world.

Alec is married to his beautiful wife of 20 years, Erica, and is the proud dad of Phoenix (14 years old) and Scarlett (11 years old).  He can be found at @alecthehanson on all social platforms.

UiPath develops AI that mirrors human intelligence, transforming how businesses operate, innovate, and compete. The UiPath Platform advances agentic automation, where agents, robots, people, and models work together to drive autonomy and smarter decisions. UiPath is committed to secure, accurate, and resilient AI that enhances human potential.