Ellie Mae recently hired Dave Ard as the cloud-based mortgage industry platform provider’s senior vice president of enterprise sales. Ard will oversee the company’s enterprise team of account executives and relationship managers responsible for providing digital mortgage technology to the largest lenders across the country, according to a press release.
Before joining Ellie Mae, he served in various leadership and management positions at First American Mortgage Solutions. Most recently, he was senior vice president of sales and business development, leading First American’s client executive team of representatives across top clients and designed and implemented the “Solution Executive” framework where he hired and led a team of solution and business development representatives to drive solution-level focus and accountability. He also led and integrated the partner and channel sales effort across multiple product lines and acquisitions.
Prior to joining First American, Ard worked at CoreLogic as senior vice president of business development, as a client executive and as senior vice president of mortgage analytics. He began his career at Intel Corporation.
“Dave has a proven history of leading successful sales teams and knows the mortgage market well,” Ellie Mae Senior Vice President of Sales and Client Management Jeff Benjamin said in the release. “Going forward, Dave will be responsible for driving the sales and relationship management strategy with a focus on the largest lenders as Ellie Mae drives toward our North Star of automating everything automatable for the residential mortgage industry. It is an opportunity to help these lenders succeed and grow Ellie Mae’s market share.”
“This is an exciting time to join Ellie Mae,” Ard said. “The digital mortgage is a game-changer for all lenders as they strive to compete in today’s changing market. The Enterprise segment has so much to gain from the efficiencies, cost savings and fast return on their technology investment as they turn to Encompass to close more loans, close loans faster and reduce their cost of origination. I look forward to working alongside a great team to bring the promise of Ellie Mae’s true digital mortgage to the country’s largest lenders.”