Leadership

Joe is a highly accomplished Senior Executive Leader with over a quarter decade years of sales, marketing, and general management experience ranging from start-ups to $900M business units. He has deep domain experience in software and financial services industries, and excels at building and motivating cross-functional teams to exceed goals. As Chief Operating Officer, Ellie Mae Inc., Joe directed all business operations with management and P&L responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Education, Support, and Professional Services, and was responsible for the go-to-market strategy and execution of their flagship product, Encompass. Later, he successfully executed Ellie Mae’s 2011 initial public offering (NYSE: ELLI) with Barclays Capital, William Blair & Company, Piper Jaffray, and Morgan Keegan.

Steve’s career is marked by successful design, development and delivery of complex and innovative mortgage lending and transaction management systems in financial services. He puts a strong focus on on product design, customer needs analysis and enterprise class IT performance. He is a practical, results-oriented individual with extensive mortgage banking industry experience and utilizes motivational style leadership to drive results with his staff and peers, to deliver client value. Steve joined Blue Sage Solutions as their CTO in early 2016 to help drive growth and technical innovation projects. Steve has worked with this core team within several prior organizations. Before Blue Sage, Steve spent nine years with IBM’s Global Business Services responsible for IBM’s Lender Solutions platform architecture and technical business strategy.

Brian has been working in the mortgage industry for over thirty years, starting as an Account Executive for some of the most prestigious mortgage bankers and banks, Carteret Savings Bank, Paine Webber Mortgage, Columbia National and Fleet Mortgage. In 1998 he moved into IT joining Harland Financial Services where he was promoted from Business Analyst to System Analyst to serve as the primary point of contact for Harland Financial Services largest customer funded development projects. Since then, Brian has gained experience in all phases of project life cycle, including conceptualization, business analysis design, development, implementation, project management, training budgeting, and resource management. In 2014 Brian joined Blue Sage Solutions as a Project Executive with a focus on Mortgage Project Implementations, Software Development, Business/System Analysis, and Sales.

With a strong knowledge of both mortgage fulfillment and back operational guideline and process flows, Scott has been actively involved in large financial call center environments including Ditech.com, closing up to 22,000 monthly units at the height of the refinance market. With a bachelor of arts in Business Management from Loyola Marymount University, Scott has been involved, either directly or indirectly, in mortgage management and training for approximately fifteen years. He has experience in all aspects of processing fulfillment, product guidelines, and mortgage industry segments allowing him to successfully transition to lead software development cycle projects. At Blue Sage, Scott serves as Project Executive, collaborating with clients to deliver system design, business requirements, project plans, and installing effective management information protocols for predictive iterative system releases.

With close to three decades experience as an entrepreneurial technical manager, Gregg’s strong organizational, budget, planning, logistics and development capabilities make him well-equipped to handle all phases of system and technology development, including analysis, design, testing and implementation. In 2017, Gregg joined Blue Sage Solutions as a Project Executive with a focus on Mortgage Project Implementations, Software Development, Business/System Analysis, and Sales.