Cloudvirga™ today announced the appointments of Dan Sogorka as chief revenue officer and Kelly Kucera as senior vice president of marketing. Sogorka, a seasoned mortgage technology executive, will drive Cloudvirga's continued revenue growth and oversee the firm's sales and marketing strategy with the help of...
James brings 25 years of experience overseeing technology strategy, product development and service provider partnerships at leading mortgage technology companies. As Executive Vice President of Technology, James executes Cloudvirga’s technical vision, oversees initiatives to strengthen developer talent and collaborates across departments to scale technical initiatives to the company’s explosive growth.
Prior to joining Cloudvirga, Vinci held multiple C-level positions at Equator, an affiliate of real estate and mortgage technology firm Altisource. Vinci spent his early career building business process automation solutions for Xerox Professional Services and other mortgage services providers.
James holds a BS in History and Pre-medicine from Columbia University-New York.
Daniel Sogorka has more than twenty years of experience growing industry-leading technology businesses in the mortgage space. He brings expertise in executive management, consultative sales, and product development to Cloudvirga. Dan works closely with sales and marketing to drive revenue and position Cloudvirga as a leading provider of technology to mortgage originators looking to differentiate themselves in the industry.
Dan joined Cloudvirga from a company named Fidelity National Financial, where he served as President of EXOS Technologies. Prior to Fidelity National Financial, Dan served as President of the RealEC Technologies Business Unit and was an integral executive member of the Black Knight Financial Services team that took BKI public in May 2015.
Dan holds a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Villanova University which he attended on a Presidential Scholarship.
Mark Attaway has more than twenty-five years of executive and hands-on experience in delivering technologies that automate the real estate and mortgage industries. Before co-founding Cloudvirga, he served as chief information officer for Skyline Home Loans, where he played a critical role in creating streamlined online origination processes for consumers and loan professionals. Prior to Skyline Home Loans, Mark co-founded the AQUA title decisioning and workflow system as chief information officer for LSI/ServiceLink, where he worked for ten years.
Early on in his career, Mark demonstrated his entrepreneurial spirit when he co-founded ACS System Associates which later became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fidelity National Title. Mark also served as president of interest transaction intermediary company Escrow.com.
Kyle Kamrooz has nearly 20 years of senior/executive management experience in residential mortgage lending. By age 25, Kyle had built one of the largest direct-to-consumer mortgage lending companies in Orange County. His next venture, a nationwide mortgage company, processed more than $7 billion in loans annually and employed more than 500 people.
Kyle witnessed first-hand the inefficiencies of the home loan process for both consumers and lenders and earned Direct Endorsement underwriting approval from the FHA to better understand the problem. While serving as executive vice president at top-40 lender Skyline Home Loans, Kyle developed the digital mortgage platform that would become Cloudvirga.
Since co-founding Cloudvirga in 2016, Kyle has led the company through multiple rounds of investment funding, set the vision for its flagship POS systems, forged partnerships with leading mortgage service providers, and signed eight of the top 40 non-bank mortgage lenders.
Kyle serves on Fannie Mae’s Technology Advisory Board and is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, where he has served on the Loan Production, Legal and Regulatory Compliance, and State Legislative & Regulatory committees.
Kyle’s thought leadership has been featured in TechCrunch and The Huffington Post. He was named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s inspiring tech entrepreneurs under 40.
A results-driven executive with over twenty years of experience in the consumer financial services industry, both as a practicing attorney and chief compliance officer for technology-based companies in FinServ, Maria Moskver has extensive knowledge of federal and state-specific regulatory issues and a strong track record of establishing cultures of compliance.
Prior to joining Cloudvirga, Moskver was General Counsel and Enterprise Compliance Officer for Covius (formally LenderLive), a group of technology-enabled companies that provide compliance, quality assurance and valuation solutions for the residential and commercial real estate market. She was previously co-chair of the ALFN Collections Group and is a member of its Legislative and Regulatory Practice Group; the State Government Affairs Committee of AFSA; the Legal Issues Committee of the CMBA; and the State Legislative and Regulatory Committee of the MBA. In 2018, Maria was named one of HousingWire Magazine’s Women of Influence.
Maria graduated magna cum laude from Colorado College with a degree in Economics and holds an MBA from the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
Daniel brings vast experience building and guiding teams to deliver high quality software. As an engineer and architect at heart, Daniel brings discipline, thought and creativity to the art of software development.
Daniel comes to Cloudvirga from loanDepot where he managed a large engineering team that supported key business units including personal lending, enterprise CRM, and lead management. Additionally, Daniel provided architectural guidance across the mello platform, leading to the adoption of a microservice based cloud strategy and the delivery of the company’s first native mobile application. Prior to loanDepot, Daniel was a founder and held key leadership roles in multiple startups in the security, software and fin-tech sectors.
Daniel holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
Ashley has spent over ten years building innovative talent acquisition and people operations teams. Her expertise centers around authentic recruitment, finding innovative methods to attract world-class talent.
Ashley joins Cloudvirga from Drip where she led the People Ops team through acquisitions, reorganizations and various stages of growth. Prior to Drip, Ashley served as Manager of Recruiting at Houzz where she built and led their first team of full-cycle recruiters and scaled the organization across multiple locations and functions.
Ashley holds a B.S. from Colorado State University with a specialization in Human Resources.
Tim brings intellectual foresight to Cloudvirga in the form of product development with over twenty years of experience in start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Tim leads develop of our Cloudvirga Enterprise and Consumer POS systems and our Broker POS in partnership with ARIVE.
Most recently, Tim drove technology strategy for loanDepot’s digital platform. Prior to loanDepot, Tim led multiple start-ups through early phase work in financial services, software and wireless broadcast sectors resulting in many acquisitions and two public offerings.
Tim holds both a B.A. in Economics and an MBA from The University of California, Irvine.
Bringing proven leadership skills of over twenty years across the private, public and non-for-profit sectors, Jesse brings a proven track record of customer success and engagement in leading industries. Jesse leads Cloudvirga’s customer success division, working with our product development and engineering teams to help customers realize the most value from their usage of our products.
Jesse joined us from a prior position at Roostify where she was Vice President of Services A role in which she oversaw implementation at several banks and mortgage lenders. Previous to Roostify, Jesse delivered advisory services to clients in sectors including financial services and Telcom fields for consulting firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton.
Jesse holds an MPA from Princeton, and a B.S. from Northeastern University.
With over twenty years of experience building and marketing top brands, Kelly brings to Cloudvirga deep expertise in helping companies attain global market leadership for cloud technology solutions. Kelly works closely with our sales and product teams to successfully bring our growing line of products to market.
Kelly joins Cloudvirga from Arcules where she established the strategic and programmatic commercial foundation to build a global market leadership position in the Video Cloud IoT category. Prior to Arcules, Kelly was the Head of Global Marketing for 1WorldSync.
Kelly holds a BS in Accounting with a minor in International Business from University of Dayton and a Masters in Management & Leadership from Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business.
Steve DeSantis joined Cloudvirga as CFO on November 1, 2017. Steve has over 30 years of financial management experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Cloudvirga Steve was CFO of ShiftPixy and took the company public on Nasdaq in 2017. Steve co-founded Predixion Software, Inc., in December 2009 and served as its Chief Financial Officer; the company was sold in February 2017. Steve also served as CFO of DATAllegro from February 2007 to December 2009. DATAllegro was acquired by Microsoft in August 2008 for $280M.
He also served as EVP of Operations and Corporate Secretary of Nexiant, Inc., and served as its CFO from June 2005 through January 2007. In addition, Steve served as CFO and Corporate Secretary of TCI Solutions Inc.
Steve is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in business and an MBA from the University of Southern California.
As Chief Customer Officer, Sean is responsible for cloudvirga’s customer leadership, implementation, account management and support functions. With 20+ years of experience driving change and strategy to enhance the customer experience, he has built world-class customer success organizations at FileNET, IBM, Quest and Dell.
His career accomplishments include establishing a $200 million renewal global sales channel as a business unit executive for IBM; overseeing six acquisitions and launching offshore delivery centers as vice president of support and services for Quest Software (acquired by Dell in 2012); and serving as global leader of technical consultancy services while vice president of technical operations for FileNET (acquired by IBM in 2006).
He holds a master’s degree in international business administration and a bachelor’s degree in software engineering.
Jim is a career product professional who has been focused exclusively on customer-centered innovation in the fintech industry. From prior executive product leadership positions at Intuit, Sage Software, ADP, First American and CoreLogic, he possesses a broad understanding of customer needs as well as the knowledge and expertise necessary to deliver products and services that meet and exceed those needs.
His unique background stemming from world-class software companies combined with a decade focused on the mortgage data and analytics space provides Cloudvirga with a product leader with the ability to not only understand the complexities of the mortgage marketplace, but the skills and expertise necessary to turn those opportunities into disruptive solutions.
Jim holds an MBA from Emory University in Atlanta, a Masters of Business Taxation from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance from California State University, Long Beach.
For over 20 years, Michael Schreck has built and led pioneering companies whose innovative technologies enable the world’s leading brands to better engage with their customers. Prior to his CEO role at Cloudvirga, Michael served as the Managing Director of Altisource Labs, an innovation center within mortgage software provider Altisource Portfolio Solutions. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing more than 1,000 employees across four next-generation software and analytics companies, including leading software-as-a-service providers Equator and Mortgage Builder.
Michael previously held CEO positions at digital publishing firm Zmags and government service provider Corrective Solutions. He also co-founded General Catalyst Partners, a multi-billion-dollar venture capital firm where Michael helped develop successful startups including Upromise, SmartBargains, m-Qube and CoreMetrics. Collectively, these companies were acquired for over $1 billion by SLM, GSI Commerce, VeriSign and IBM, respectively.
Michael started his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and Monitor Company. He holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University.
Bill Dallas is a visionary in the fintech industries, responsible for founding and managing more than a dozen mortgage startups and financial tech companies over the past 40 years. His first venture, First Franklin, grew to be one of the nation’s largest lenders and eventually sold for $330 million. Other hugely successful ventures include risk management solution Interthinx and lending process automation software company Mindbox, which Bill sold for $27 million and $20 million, respectively. Most recently, Bill sold a minority stake of Own It to Merrill Lynch for $500 million.
Although technology has disrupted and improved many industries, the antiquated mortgage lending process remains manual, slow and costly. Along with his co-founders, Bill created the intelligent Mortgage Platform (iMP), the enabling technology behind cloudvirga’s mortgage point-of-sale platforms which leverages data and an intelligent workflow to drastically cut the time and cost associated with closing a loan. The proven system, which has already processed more than $7 billion in loans, is successfully transforming home lending by digitizing, automating and simplifying the process for consumers, lenders and Realtors®.
Currently CEO of Skyline Home Loans, a top-50 mortgage lender, Bill serves as chairman of cloudvirga’s board of directors. He holds a law degree from Santa Clara University School of Law as well as an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
