People Movers of the Week: May 27

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CALIFORNIA

IRVINE

CoreLogic has named James Balas as chief financial officer.

Balas, who has been the company's senior vice president finance, controller and principal accounting officer since September 2012, assumes the role from Frank Martell.

Martell, the company's chief operating officer since June 2014, has also been chief financial officer since August 2011.

Balas joined CoreLogic in March 2011 as senior vice president, controller and principal accounting officer.

Martell, in his capacity as COO, will continue to lead CoreLogic's core operating segments as well as its enterprise data management, information technology and corporate development organizations.

NEBRASKA

OMAHA

Terry Connealy has been named president of the newly formed Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, a joint venture of Mutual of Omaha Bank and Dallas-based residential mortgage lender PrimeLending.

Connealy has more than 15 years of experience in the mortgage banking industry, most recently serving as executive vice president of mortgage banking at Mutual of Omaha Bank.

NEW JERSEY

MOUNT LAUREL

PHH Home Loans, a joint venture between PHH Mortgage and Realogy Holdings Corp, appointed John Porath to the role of regional executive for the Southeast.

Based in Clearwater, Fla., he will be responsible for the production, profitability and overall performance for the Southeast Region, encompassing seven states and the District of Columbia.

In his most recent role as vice president, regional sales manager for Citizens Bank, he held direct oversight and responsibility for retail mortgage lending in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

NORTH CAROLINA

CHARLOTTE

MiMutual Mortgage has hired John Stevens as national vice president of business development.

In his new role, Stevens will be responsible for advancing MiMutual's national retail growth.

Having more than 12 years in the mortgage industry, he was previously with Mountain West Financial and Bank of England.

TEXAS

HOUSTON

Envoy Mortgage has hired Joel Cambern and Joe Tako as regional vice presidents for the Northwest and Southwest retail lending regions, respectively.

Cambern is based in the Seattle area and manages the Northwest region, which includes Envoy's Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana branches.

He joins Envoy from Bank of America, where he served as vice president for home loans.

Tako is based in Irvine, Calif., and is responsible for Envoy's presence in Southern California, Arizona and Hawaii.

He has been in mortgage lending since 1991, when he joined Home Savings as a loan originator.

VIRGINIA

TYSONS CORNER

First Guaranty Mortgage Corp. said that Van Evans has joined the company as regional sales manager in the correspondent division.

Evans brings to the firm 17 years of mortgage industry experience.

Prior to joining FGMC, he was the division vice president of correspondent sales at Finance of America Mortgage, and a correspondent rural housing account executive at Chase.

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