Business Management People on the Move
National Asset Adds 3 to Its Senior Management Team
May 16, 2008

National Asset Direct today announced the addition of Ray Schalk, Melissa Dant and Jill Parker, all formerly of Accredited Home Lenders, to its senior management team.

Schalk joined the company's loan trading team from Accredited Home Lenders, where he sold loans and participated in the securitization of sub-prime and ALT-A loans for the Capital Markets Group. In his new role as a whole loan trader at National Asset, Schalk is responsible for all aspects of loan acquisitions, including maintaining communication with sellers at all levels to ensure smooth and successful transactions, monitoring trends surrounding credit and real estate markets, and managing assumptions of the firm's pricing model.

As National Asset’s general counsel, Dant is a member of the senior management team and responsible for all legal affairs of the entire company and its affiliates.

And Parker, the firm’s director of project management, is responsible for all National Asset's and iServe projects.

 
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