Founder and CEO
RetroRate
After a long career in the Bay Area, including time at Electronic Arts, Apple, and Redfin (where he led the product team), Andy started his first company, Approved, in the mortgage tech space while an Entrepreneur in Residence at the renowned VC firm, Social Capital. After raising a seed round and spending a few years building the company, the product, and the team, Approved parlayed a potential customer, Credit Karma, into a potential acquirer when he sold the company. He ran the Mortgage and New Business teams as a VP & General Manager at CK for four years, and now he's back at building another company at RetroRate, leveraging assumable loans to get more buyers into homes, and unlock the market for sellers, agents and other real estate professionals alike.
He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Stanford, and hopped across the bay for an MBA from Berkeley. When he’s not busy on the startup, he can be found most days chasing his children around sunny San Diego.
Stop Waiting for the Fed: Push Rewind with Assumable Loans
If you’re waiting for the fed to lower rates to stimulate business, you’re wasting time. This keynote dives into how a new buyer can still get a 4%, 3% or even 2.5% loan, -right now-, with an assumable mortgage. We’ll dive into the mechanics, policy, and give a report card on how the industry has handled an affordability crisis.
Introduction by Holly Sraeel, SVP, Strategy and Content, National Mortgage News Live Media