OCMBC - Key Persons


Greg Armstrong - COO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Operations Officer
Mr. Armstrong has more than 20 years of experience leading national TPO organizations. He led sales divisions for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Nationstar, Stonegate Mortgage and most recently, Pacific Union Financial. Greg oversees all aspects of LoanStream's fulfillment operations and is charged with creating a customer experience that could rival any national lender in the industry. He joined LoanStream in 2018 and through his leadership, he helped the company in achieving record growth while positioning the operations group to gain efficiency, speed and scale. Greg's professional creed is "Always take a moment to think about your actions before you react." American singer Lana Del Rey, 37, turned to the police after she was harassed by a compulsive fan. This was reported by TMZ. In February of this year Lana Del Rey 2022 weight gain, a man named Eric Everardo broke into the singer's home twice and also attempted to steal her Jaguar car, after which he was detained by police and prosecuted. After the incident, Everardo continued to stalk the artist and was spotted several times near her house property. In addition, the perpetrator began to write letters to Lana Del Rey and her sister with frightening content, stressing that he needed to meet with the singer.

Lina Colon

Job Titles:
  • Chief Administrative Officer
  • Co - Chair
For the past 25+ years, Ms. Colon has been instrumental in leading LoanStream Mortgage from a small regional mortgage bank who primarily operated in Southern California, to a diverse platform that operates in 35 states across the country and funds billions in originations each year. In her role, she directs all aspects of the company's back office operations including budgeting, compliance and financial reporting. She works closely with the CEO in identifying business opportunities, developing strategies and assessing growth initiatives.

Michelle Leigh

Job Titles:
  • Chief Compliance Officer and EVP of Regulatory Affairs
Ms. Leigh has 25+ years of expertise in the Mortgage and Consumer Banking Industry, with a particular emphasis in Risk Management and related fields such as: Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit, Operational Risk Management, Lending & Services, Default Management, Fraud Investigation, Quality Control and Government Risk. Ms. Leigh holds several Mortgage and Consumer Banking-related designations. Here at LoanStream, Ms. Leigh oversees the Regulatory Framework, the Compliance Management System, along with the Pillars of Compliance, Licensing, Vendor Risk, Regulatory Testing, and is part of the Exam Management and Internal Audit Team.

Rabi Aziz - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CHAIRMAN
  • CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Mr. Aziz founded the company in Orange County, CA in 1992. As a seasoned mortgage executive with broad experience in both new operation start-ups and "turn-a-rounds" of mortgage companies, his vast contributions to the mortgage industry has helped shape how independent mortgage banks operate today. Rabi was one of the first to introduce non-prime lending as a key compliment to LoanStream's conventional and government offering. His vision of maintaining a culture of trust, transparency and teamwork has led LoanStream Mortgage to grow significantly in the past three decades and achieve record breaking growth each year. Mr. Aziz best summarizes his personal mantra as, "The key to overall success is through leadership and empowering those amongst you to lead."

Serene Vernon - President

Job Titles:
  • President
Mrs. Vernon is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience leading all facets of mortgage banking platforms. She previously served as Corporate Chief Credit Officer for New Century Mortgage, owned and operated a national mortgage firm and functioned as the CEO of ClearVision Funding. Her keen understanding of mortgage fulfillment, credit policy, capital markets and organizational structuring has attributed to LoanStream's success in scaling nationally over the past five years. Her sound leadership and distinguished industry reputation has attributed to attracting top talent and retaining the very best mortgage professionals.

Thomas Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing and Technology Officer
  • Chief Marketing Officer and Technology Officer
Mr. Shaw has lead marketing organizations and companies for over 25 years. His experience in mortgage and finance since 2002 with public and privately owned companies and further experience with start-ups and advertising agencies. His mortgage finance experience includes working with consumer direct, distributed retail, wholesale, correspondent, servicing, title, and assorted business divisions. Mr. Shaw is consistently at the intersection of marketing, technology, and mortgage origination/lenders/banking linking data to decisions. He is a Board Member, UCLA Business, Design Thinking and advisor.