Management

Willie Newman has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Home Point Capital since 2015. In addition, Willie has served as a member of the board of directors of Home Point Financial Corporation and Home Point Mortgage Acceptance Corporation since 2015. Prior to joining Home Point, Willie held a variety of leadership roles within the mortgage industry, including at Cole Taylor Mortgage, ABN AMRO Mortgage Group and InterFirst Wholesale Mortgage Lending. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Michigan and a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Business Economics from Wayne State University.

Phil Shoemaker has served as Home Point Capital’s President of Originations since 2018. Prior to joining Home Point, Phil was one of the founding members of the originations business at Caliber Home Loans where he served in multiple roles on the executive management team from 2009 to 2018, including Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Production, Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Vice President of Operations. From 1997 to 2009, Phil served in various leadership positions at Stonewater Mortgage Corporate and First Magnus Financial. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona.

Mark Elbaum has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Home Point Capital since December 2020. Prior to joining Home Point, Mark served as Chief Financial Officer of Marlette Funding, LLC from 2018 to 2020 and Chief Financial Officer of Merrill Lynch, Bank of America’s Wealth Management business, from 2011 to 2017. Mark’s prior roles included 20 years in the mortgage industry as Chief Financial Officer of Bank of America’s mortgage lending division and Chief Financial Officer of the Residential Lending Division at Countrywide Financial Corporation. In addition, Mark served as Senior Vice President of Finance at Aames Financial Corporation and as an Audit Manager at Price Waterhouse. He holds a Master of Accounting from the University of Southern California and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Jean Weng has served as Home Point Capital’s General Counsel since 2021. Prior to joining Home Point, Jean was the Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at New York-based Voya Financial, Inc., a Fortune 500 company that provides retirement and asset management solutions. There, she oversaw the company’s Board and Committee operations and advised the company’s Board of Directors on corporate governance practices and trends, headed the company’s government relations function, and led the company’s privacy, procurement and intellectual property team. Prior to Voya, Weng had a 12-year career at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York, where she advised companies and underwriters on capital raising transactions within the firm’s Capital Markets Group. Jean obtained her Bachelor of Science in History from Columbia University and a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School.

John Forlines has served as Home Point Capital’s Chief Risk Officer since 2021. Prior to joining Home Point, John enjoyed a 33-year career at Fannie Mae, where he oversaw the age. ncy’s enterprise risk management including credit and operational risk management for its $3.5 trillion book of single-family and multifamily loans. Also, during his time at Fannie Mae, Forlines held titles of Chief Audit Executive and Chief Credit Officer, roles in which he maintained a comprehensive view of corporate functions as well as credit risk related to underwriting and servicing risk management activities. John obtained his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina and a Master of Business Administration in Human Resources Management from the University of Dallas.