{"id":31572,"date":"2017-12-14T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=31572"},"modified":"2018-07-30T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:09:31","slug":"mortgage-automation-trailblazer-cloudvirga-hires-jim-portner-as-chief-product-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/mortgage-automation-trailblazer-cloudvirga-hires-jim-portner-as-chief-product-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Automation Trailblazer Cloudvirga Hires Jim Portner as Chief Product Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, Calif.,\u00a0Dec. 14, 2017\u00a0(SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudvirga.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cloudvirga&trade;<\/a>, developer of intelligent mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platforms, has hired Jim Portner as chief product officer. Portner will report to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/mortgage-automation-pioneer-hires-veteran-tech-entrepreneur-michael-schreck-as-ceo\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cloudvirga CEO Michael Schreck<\/a> and will oversee product strategy, development and marketing for the company\u2019s digital mortgage automation platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Portner, Cloudvirga Chief Product Officer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/17-1214-jim-portner-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Portner, Cloudvirga Chief Product Officer\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/17-1214-jim-portner-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/17-1214-jim-portner-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/17-1214-jim-portner-696x522-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/>\nThe addition to Cloudvirga\u2019s executive leadership team comes on the heels of the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/five-top-30-lenders-choose-cloudvirgas-digital-mortgage-platform-in-last-100-days\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent announcement<\/a> that it added five top-30 lenders to its digital mortgage platform in the last 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Cloudvirga, Portner was senior vice president of products and strategy for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstam.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">First American Financial Corporation<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.financialcontent.com\/stocks\/quote?Symbol=FAF\" rel=\"nofollow\">NYSE: FAF<\/a>). In that role, Portner oversaw strategy, management and marketing for the firm\u2019s Database Solutions products, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datatracetitle.com\/home\" rel=\"nofollow\">Data Trace<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datatree.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">DataTree<\/a>. Portner has also held senior management roles at Interthinx, a mortgage fraud solutions provider acquired by First American in 2014, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corelogic.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CoreLogic<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.financialcontent.com\/stocks\/quote?Symbol=CLGX\" rel=\"nofollow\">NYSE: CLGX<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Portner has made a career focus of innovation and disruption in the financial space. For more than two decades he drove product strategy within the professional accounting products division of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intuit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Intuit<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.financialcontent.com\/stocks\/quote?Symbol=INTU\" rel=\"nofollow\">NASDAQ: INTU<\/a>). Following Intuit, he served as product line general manager over enterprise resource planning and accounting product lines for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-us\/\">Sage<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.google.com\/finance?q=LON:SGE\" rel=\"nofollow\">LON: SGE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim has a remarkable pedigree developing and leading product lines for some of the world\u2019s largest financial services and SaaS firms,\u201d said Schreck. \u201cHe is the perfect fit to lead Cloudvirga\u2019s talented product team and take our market-disruptive digital mortgage platforms to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCloudvirga combines a unique approach to mortgage automation with powerful data insights to deliver a perfect loan every time,\u201d said Portner. \u201cI look forward to shaping the future of our product line that lets borrowers and loan officers take the guesswork out of selecting the best available loan option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portner holds a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Emory University; a master\u2019s degree in business taxation from the University of Southern California; and a real estate finance degree from California State University, Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Cloudvirga&trade;:<\/strong><br \/>\nCloudvirga\u2019s intelligent mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platforms uniquely combine a world-class borrower experience with a truly digital lender platform that radically cuts overall loan costs, increases transparency and reduces the time to close a loan. Founded by top fintech veterans with a track record of building successful mortgage technologies, Cloudvirga\u2019s initial customer roster includes eight of the top 40 non-bank mortgage originators. To date, Cloudvirga has raised over $25 million from some of the country\u2019s top lenders and venture capital firms. For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudvirga.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cloudvirga.com\/<\/a> or follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/7577062\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cloudvirga on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*PHOTO for Media: Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/17-1214s2p-portner-300dpi.jpg<br \/>\n*Photo Caption: Jim Portner Joins Digital Mortgage Automation Trailblazer Cloudvirga as Chief Product Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 14, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Cloudvirga(TM), developer of intelligent mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platforms, has hired Jim Portner as chief product officer. Portner will report to Cloudvirga CEO Michael Schreck and will oversee product strategy, development and marketing for the company&#8217;s digital mortgage automation platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6993,"featured_media":31568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1,10,38,10163,317,554],"tags":[205,9608,9527],"class_list":["post-31572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mortgage-news","category-business-news","category-california-news","category-finance-news","category-irvine-business","category-career-news","category-orange-county-news","tag-depthpr","tag-digital-mortgage-automation","tag-intelligent-mortgage-point-of-sale","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":9539,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}