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Kevin Palmer
Head of Multifamily
Kevin Palmer is the head of Freddie Mac Multifamily, leading all aspects of the division’s efforts to provide stability, liquidity and affordability throughout the rental housing market.
A longtime Freddie Mac veteran, Kevin previously led Portfolio Management for the company’s Single-Family Division, including supervision of Freddie Mac's nearly $3 trillion guarantee book of business including servicing, pricing and analytics, and oversight of its real estate-owned portfolio. He also led Single-Family Credit Risk Transfer (CRT). In his more than 20 years at Freddie Mac, Kevin has held various capital markets and risk management positions.
Kevin holds an MBA in Finance from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Weber State University.
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William Buskirk
Senior Vice President, Multifamily Chief Operating Officer
Bill is the Chief Operating Officer of Freddie Mac Multifamily, overseeing the Asset Management, Operations, Business Management, and Accounting and Business Reporting teams. This includes groups responsible for loan administration and servicing, counterparty risk & compliance, marketing, employee engagement, business strategy and management reporting. Bill is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.
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Stephen Johnson
Senior Vice President, Head of Production & Sales
As head of Production & Sales, Steve manages a nationwide team of Multifamily professionals, overseeing the development and implementation of initiatives that improve the supply, speed and flow of capital nationwide, and addresses the rapidly evolving needs of our Optigo® lenders and their borrowers.
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Robert Koontz
Senior Vice President, Multifamily Capital Markets
Robert heads the Multifamily Capital Markets team, which includes loan pricing, structuring and securitization activities for all multifamily loan purchases. He is the senior relationship manager with securities investors, credit rating agencies and the broker/dealer community. Additionally, he leads and ensures the strategic alignment between the portfolio management and the research and modeling teams within Multifamily. Robert, a veteran of the commercial mortgage-backed securities industry, has been instrumental in developing new securities structures and capital markets innovations for Freddie Mac Multifamily.
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Ian Ouwerkerk
Senior Vice President, Multifamily Underwriting & Credit
Ian leads the credit and underwriting teams across all Multifamily business lines, covering Conventional, Targeted Affordable Housing and Small Balance Loans. He works closely with Optigo® lenders, their borrowers and our Production & Sales staff to source a steady flow of high-quality loans to Freddie Mac Multifamily. Ian is an industry veteran and is keen on implementing strategic solutions, maintaining credit discipline and driving business results through strong partnerships.
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Corey Aber
Vice President, Mission, Policy & Strategy
Corey Aber is the vice president of Multifamily Mission, Policy & Strategy at Freddie Mac. In this capacity, he leads the Multifamily division’s mission-focused efforts, which seek to address the needs of underserved markets, encourage a more equitable multifamily housing finance system and enhance the multifamily market’s focus on climate-related considerations. Corey is also the founder and co-host of the Freddie Mac Multifamily Podcast, established in 2019.
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Michael Case
Vice President, Loan Pricing
Michael oversees all multifamily loan pricing for the capital markets division related to both securitized products and the retained portfolio, which is key to our continued ranking as the leader in multifamily finance and strong financial performance. Michael joined Freddie Mac in 2017 and brings over 15 years of investment experience.
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Richard Carlson
Vice President, Portfolio Surveillance
Richard leads our asset management surveillance functions and is responsible for developing, enhancing and executing strategies in this space. This includes overseeing teams that focus on property due diligence, provide timely and quality reporting, and maintain replacement reserves with servicers.
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Pamela Dent
Vice President, Asset Management
Pamela leads the Special Servicing and Surveillance teams. This includes Asset Resolution & REO, post-closing Borrower Transactions, Guarantor Risk, Valuation & Physical Risk, and Risk Ratings. In addition, her team interacts with primary, master and special servicers and Directing Certificateholders to provide a high level of customer service for borrowers.
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Catherine Evans
Vice President, Underwriting & Credit (LIHTC equity, TAH, SBL)
Catherine Evans is vice president of Underwriting and Credit for Freddie Mac Multifamily Small Balance Loans, Targeted Affordable Housing and LIHTC Equity. In this role, Catherine is responsible for the credit nationwide for the businesses and manages an organization of around 100 team members. Working with the Production team, she sets the credit vision for the lines of business and oversees the credit relationships with the Optigo lenders.
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Lauren Garren
Vice President, Multifamily Technology & Operational Risk
Lauren oversees the strategy and advancement of the division’s technology roadmap and operational risk framework. She is responsible for maintaining current technologies while driving investments to transform our platform. Lauren is also the Divisional Risk Officer for Operational Risk and ensures the Multifamily Governance Framework is resilient and aligned with Freddie Mac’s business operating model. She has been with Freddie Mac for over 18 years.
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Jason Griest
Vice President, Securitization
Jason leads the Multifamily Securitization Group, which is responsible for innovative structures and securitization program efficiencies, the Multifamily loan pipeline, and Multifamily credit risk transfer executions, including K-Deals®, SB-Deals®, ML-Deals, REMICs, Multi PCs® and due diligence for Structured Credit Risk Notes. He has played a key role in the development of new credit risk transfer products such as SOFR bonds and impact offerings, as well as the newly reengineered Multifamily Structured Credit Risk (MSCR) Notes. Jason has been with Freddie Mac Multifamily since 2013.
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Angela Jacks
Vice President, Multifamily Chief Financial Officer
Angela is the Chief Financial Officer for Multifamily, leading the financial management and supporting the Multifamily business. This includes being responsible for the accounting, financial planning and analysis, expense management, capital oversight, and internal control design over financial reporting for the Multifamily business. Angela is a certified public accountant.
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Peter Lillestolen
Vice President, TAH Production & Sales
Peter Lillestolen oversees the Targeted Affordable Housing (TAH) retail business, Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Equity, Structured Transactions for both TAH and Conventional, as well as Seniors Housing. He and his team drive Multifamily’s affordable business with innovative, strategic decision-making. Peter’s team works closely with our Optigo® lenders and Syndicator Network, building relationships and providing financial solutions that help to address the affordable housing crisis.
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Steve Lineberger
Vice President, Conventional Production & Sales
Steve leads the Western and Central regions for the Conventional Production & Sales business. He works closely with our network of Optigo® lenders, building relationships and supporting the multifamily market by providing financial solutions through our Conventional loan products. Steve is based in our Irvine, California office and has been with Freddie Mac since 2012.
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Nicholas Makrigiorgos
Vice President, Operational Risk
As Vice President of Operational Risk, Nick leads the first line of defense risk management for financial crimes, information security, business resiliency, vendor management and compliance with regulatory requirements. Nick and his team establish the risk direction by aligning the Multifamily Governance Framework with the business operating model. He continually improves governance by understanding the multifaceted drivers that effect risk environment.
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Meg McElgunn
Vice President, Conventional Production & Sales
Meg leads the Northeast and Southeast regions for the Conventional Production & Sales business. She manages originations and works closely with our Credit & Underwriting teams, Optigo® lenders and borrowers, bringing stability and liquidity to the multifamily market. Meg has over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate lending.
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Carl McLaughlin
Vice President, Loan Servicing
Carl McLaughlin is responsible for loan servicing operations and loan administration for Multifamily. He joined Freddie Mac as a mortgage purchase analyst in the Single-Family Division in 1999. Over the years, he supported Single-Family Purchase and Acquisition, Single Family Data Quality and Mission/Affordable Housing. He later became an operational risk manager, where he helped manage, and eventually directed, operational risk across various Single-Family and Multifamily operational risk types and internal organizations, identifying risks and controls, measuring and reporting on the risks, monitoring and holding capital for these risks, and establishing sound governance over operational risk. Since 2011, Carl has led the Multifamily division’s servicing of various new loan and securitization offerings and oversees the division’s role of Master Servicer for certain K-Deals®.
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Adam Monti
Vice President, Underwriting & Credit (Conventional)
Adam leads the Conventional Underwriting & Credit teams across the nation for Freddie Mac Multifamily. He and his teams work closely with Optigo® lenders and borrowers to secure a steady flow of high-quality loans that adhere to our credit standards. Adam is known for his commitment to stakeholders, addressing challenges and improving processes. He has been with Freddie Mac for 14 years.
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Caitlin Myhre
Vice President, Underwriting & Credit (Structured and RDC)
Caitlin leads the teams responsible for underwriting structured transactions, supporting investor credit due diligence and managing credit policy, part of Risk Distribution & Credit. In collaboration with Production, her team executes innovative portfolio-level financing solutions for lenders and borrowers and works with the Capital Markets team to provide collateral information and analysis to credit bond investors. The credit policy team works across the Division to provide a framework for managing risk associated with purchasing loans and provisioning credit enhancements. In partnership with the Mission, Policy & Strategy team, Caitlin also oversees the development of multifamily supply focused activities in the Equitable Housing Finance Plan. Caitlin has over 15 years of experience in commercial real estate underwriting and credit investing.
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Tim O'Neill
Vice President, Multifamily Real Estate Law
Tim heads the team of multifamily lawyers who support the purchase and securitization of our loans. Tim and his team work directly with our lenders and Borrowers on the contractual terms of new loan purchases. The Legal team also is responsible for ensuring compliance with securities law for our mortgage securities, and they provide strategic counsel to management on business and regulatory matters.
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Deep Sheri
Vice President, Multifamily Business Technology Office
Deep leads the Multifamily Business Technology Office, which handles functions across application development, operations, architecture, agile/modern delivery, and technology risk and compliance. The team's core responsibility is to manage applications and critical systems that support the quote, credit, Capital Markets and servicing lines of business.
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Erlita Shively
Vice President, Multifamily Counterparty Risk & Compliance
Erlita and her team are responsible for managing counterparty relationships as they relate to Seller/Servicer applications, scheduled audits, organizational change approvals, annual certifications, counterparty credit risk management and Seller/Servicer terminations, as well as AMO relationship management associated with the servicer network. The Multifamily Seller/Servicer Guide also falls under her purview. Erlita’s group frequently collaborates with Enterprise Risk Management and FHFA about seller/servicer oversight to ensure scorecard objectives and other mission goals are met.
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Rama Subramanian
Vice President, Multifamily Modeling
As vice president of Multifamily Modeling, Rama oversees teams that develop models and quantitative approaches, enhance the tools our Capital Markets teams use to analyze risk, and incorporates model risk control and governance into our everyday decision-making.
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Ling Xu
Vice President, Investments & Portfolio Management
Ling leads our Multifamily portfolio management functions including funding, hedging, security investments, and all aspects of our back-end credit risk transfer programs including Multifamily Structured Credit Risk (MSCR) notes, Multifamily Credit Insurance Pool (MCIP) transactions, and other types of innovative and unique transactions. Ling also oversees the Multifamily Analytics team building or enhancing analytical functions to support portfolio risk, capital, return-on-equity reporting, forecast and scenario analysis. Ling advises on our business strategy for senior management and the board of directors and works closely with teams across Multifamily to create a cohesive view of our risk and return.
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