Redwood Trust Appoints Karen Pallotta to Its Board of Directors
December 18, 2014 at 04:15 pm EST
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Redwood Trust, Inc. announced that Karen R. Pallotta has joined its Board of Directors. Ms. Pallotta was employed at Fannie Mae for more than 20 years until her retirement in 2011. At Fannie Mae she served in various leadership roles, most recently as Executive Vice President of its Single Family Credit Guaranty business, a role she assumed during the height of the financial crisis and subsequent to Fannie Mae's government conservatorship.
Redwood Trust, Inc. is a specialty finance company focused on several distinct areas of housing credit. The Company's segments include Residential Consumer Mortgage Banking, Residential Investor Mortgage Banking, and Investment Portfolio. The Residential Consumer Mortgage Banking segment consists of a mortgage loan conduit that acquires residential loans from third-party originators for subsequent sale to whole loan buyers, securitization through its SEMT (Sequoia) private-label securitization program, or transfer into its investment portfolio. The Residential Investor Mortgage Banking segment consists of a platform that originates business purpose lending loans for subsequent securitization, sale, or transfer into its investment portfolio. The Investment Portfolio segment consists of organic investments sourced through the Company's mortgage banking operations. Additionally, through RWT Horizons, its venture investing initiative, the Company invests in early-stage companies.
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