Ellie Mae® (NYSE: ELLI) the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry, today announced that Cathleen Schreiner Gates, Ellie Mae Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, has been selected as one of 20 Women Leaders to Watch by the Sales Lead Management Association (SLMA). Judges selected Schreiner Gates and the other winners for their extraordinary contributions to their companies and communities.

Since joining Ellie Mae in 2012, Schreiner Gates has helped Ellie Mae grow across all customer segments, including strong growth in the enterprise and mega enterprise lender segments. Schreiner Gates’ sales and services organization is responsible for the over 2,400 lenders and mortgage brokers using Ellie Mae’s digital mortgage solutions, including Encompass® and the Encompass Connect suite of solutions built on the Ellie Mae Encompass NG Lending Platform. Today, Ellie Mae processes approximately 35 percent of all residential mortgages in the United States and under Schreiner Gates’ leadership, has taken the lead in offering a truly digital mortgage to the market.

“As a sales professional, it’s quite humbling to be recognized alongside so many talented women who are the best in the business,” said Schreiner Gates. “But I also consider this an acknowledgement of collective efforts of an extraordinary sales and leadership team that works hard every day to help consumers realize the dream of home ownership.”

Nominees were submitted by SLMA members and were judged on their contributions to a combination of C-level management skills, published works, and marketing and sales activities. Additional qualifications, such as board positions, authorships, non-profit experience and relevant activities and presentations, were taken into account.

“We had another strong slate of nominees for this year’s leadership recognition program,” said SLMA CEO James Obermayer. “The 20 women selected have many things in common including strong business accomplishments, serving on business and non-profit boards, advanced degrees, and giving back to their communities and industries. Many are speakers, writers, and authors. They have founded companies, and fulfilled roles in sales, marketing and customer service departments. They work in manufacturing, agencies, software and services.”

About Ellie Mae

Ellie Mae (NYSE:ELLI) is the leading cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry. Ellie Mae’s technology solutions enable lenders to originate more loans, lower origination costs, and reduce the time to close, all while ensuring the highest levels of compliance, quality and efficiency. Visit EllieMae.com or call (877) 355-4362 to learn more.

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