Ellie Mae, a provider of on-demand software solutions and services for the residential mortgage industry, announced on May 27 that Harry Gardner, a former executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and long-time leader of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO), has joined the company as vice president of e-strategies.
In this newly created position, Gardner will be responsible for leading Ellie Mae’s strategy and execution around e-mortgage and e-closing capabilities. Working with industry leaders and internal Ellie Mae product and technical teams, Gardner will develop new strategies on data governance, transfer and delivery of electronic data and images and various other e-delivery initiatives. Gardner will report directly to Joe Tyrrell, senior vice president of corporate strategy.
Most recently, Gardner was president of SigniaDocs Inc., a software as a service (SaaS) provider of legally compliant loan documents and e-mortgage technology. Prior to SigniaDocs, Gardner was the vice president of industry technology for the MBA. In this role, Gardner was responsible for the operation of the MBA’s technology committees, managing industry task forces on e-mortgage adoption, enterprise data management and information security and the management of mortgage industry special projects and task forces, such as the Fraud Prevention Database project and the National eNote Registry Task Force.
For more than a decade, Gardner has held various leadership roles at MISMO, including president and chair of its residential governance committee. He is currently a member of the organization’s board of directors.
Over his 20-plus year career, Gardner has held a variety of management, technology and systems design positions at Internet, computer and electronics companies. Mortgage Banking Magazine named Gardner to its e-mortgage All-Star list, and he received Mortgage Technology Magazine’s Steve Fraser Visionary Award in 2012.
“For more than a decade, Harry has been one of the mortgage industry’s thought leaders on e-mortgage technology and XML data standards,” said Jonathan Corr, president and chief operating officer of Ellie Mae. “His wealth of experience, deep industry ties and strategic vision make him the ideal leader to take Ellie Mae’s e-mortgage vision to the next level.”