Shawn Malhotra is Chief Technology Officer of Rocket. He has held this position since May 2024. In this role, Shawn oversees the development and implementation of technology across the entire Rocket Companies’ ecosystem.
Shawn is especially focused on increasing the rate of innovation and execution in the organization along with amplifying Rocket’s AI initiatives – driving the company toward its goal of AI-fueled homeownership. In addition, he has oversight of the company’s data science, product engineering, technology operations and information security.
Prior to joining Rocket Companies, Shawn worked at Thomson Reuters Corporation, serving as Head of Engineering from September 2020 to May 2024, Chief Technology Officer of the Corporate Technology business unit from August 2018 to September 2020 and Vice President of the Toronto Technology Centre from February 2017 to August 2018. Previously, Shawn served as the Site Director, Software Engineering for Intel Corporation from August 2013 to February 2017. Prior to Intel, Shawn served as Manager of Software Engineering at Altera Corporation from 2005 to 2013. He began his career in technology at Qualcomm Incorporated as a software engineer in 2000.
Shawn earned a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Toronto. He is credited with five issued U.S. patents and two published papers.
Shant Banosian, the #1 Loan Officer in the U.S. for nine consecutive years, is first and foremost a devoted husband and father of three. Family is the foundation of everything he does, and that same commitment carries into his work with clients, agents, and teams. Over the past 20 years, Shant has helped thousands of buyers achieve homeownership, funding more than $10 billion in loans and earning a 95% referral-driven retention rate built on trust and results.
In 2025, Shant was named President of Rate Mortgage, where his focus is empowering loan officers to grow scalable, successful businesses while maintaining balance and impact. He remains fully engaged in production with Team Banosian, continuing to deliver world-class speed, certainty, and execution for agents and homebuyers nationwide.
Along with her signature passion for people, Sue Woodard brings over thirty-five years of financial services and fintech experience to her roles as an independent consultant, Strategic Advisor with both STRATMOR Group and Housing Wire, and industry “Evangelist At Large!”
Sue started her career at the ground level in banking, became a top producing loan originator, then leveraged her knowledge to become a highly acclaimed industry speaker, subject matter expert and fintech executive.
Raised in Phoenix, Arizona, Shawn Malkou started his entrepreneurship journey at the age of 14 when he began uploading videos to YouTube. Through consistency, persistence, and quality… he generated over 100,000,000 video views before the age of 18. Fast forward, Shawn entered the mortgage industry in 2018 and eventually founded X2 Mortgage in 2021 as local mortgage brokerage with about 20 employees. Focusing on consistently being a top producer, Shawn was named #1 Mortgage Broker in the Country Under the Age of 30 for 2024. To Shawn, it’s all about finding not only what works – but what works better each and every day.
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.
Joel Kan serves as Vice President, Deputy Chief Economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association. In this role, he is responsible for MBA’s macroeconomic and housing market forecasts and oversees the production of MBA’s industry surveys, including the Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, Builder Applications Survey, and Mortgage Credit Availability Index – three of the association’s high-profile surveys. Mr. Kan presents regularly on the economy and housing market at MBA and industry events, and is interviewed and quoted frequently in national, local and industry media outlets.
Prior to joining the MBA, he worked in Ernst & Young’s Quantitative Economics and Statistics (QUEST) group. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Jason Bressler is UWM’s Chief Technology Officer. He has been with the company since 2016 and is responsible for leading a team of over 1800 IT professionals. With more than two and a half decades of IT experience in the mortgage banking industry, Jason excels in application development and enterprise implementation and scaling. He is constantly developing intuitive technology platforms that help both UWM team members and independent mortgage brokers grow their business. Under Jason’s leadership, UWM has developed the tools and platforms clients need to grow quickly, efficiently and with scale. Prior to joining UWM, Jason served on multiple mortgage and CIO advisory boards and held positions as Chief Technology Officer for The Federal Savings Bank and Chief Information Officer for Guaranteed Rate. Jason earned his bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University.