About
I have spent more than 20 years working in mortgage capital markets, with responsibility across pipeline risk management, hedging, pricing, liquidity, secondary-market execution, investor strategy, and capital-markets operations.
Throughout my career, I have overseen mortgage pipelines ranging from approximately $1 billion to $2 billion and managed more than $100 billion in cumulative securities and hedge activity. My experience includes the global financial crisis, COVID-era volatility, major interest-rate shifts, merger integration, rapid production growth, and an FDIC-directed institutional wind-down.
I founded Regehr Capital Markets Advisory to provide mortgage lenders, financial institutions, technology companies, and executive teams with experienced support when they face a complex decision, an operational problem, a leadership gap, or a period of market disruption.
My approach is practical and grounded in operating experience. I focus on how pricing, hedging, liquidity, technology, controls, and execution work together—and where they stop working together. The objective is not to produce a generic consulting report. It is to identify the real issue, explain it clearly, and help the organization implement a workable solution.
Engagements may include focused advisory, operational assessments, interim or fractional leadership, mortgage-technology evaluation, and support during special situations.
I am also the author of Project Mortgage: The Life of a Mortgage — A First Principles Guide, which explains the mortgage system from origination through capital-markets execution using clear, practical language.
Services
Capital Markets Advisory
Independent guidance on pipeline risk, hedging, pricing, liquidity, best execution, investor strategy, reporting, and governance.
Interim & Fractional Leadership
Experienced senior coverage during leadership vacancies, executive searches, organizational transitions, growth, or market disruption.
Operational Assessment & Improvement
End-to-end reviews of capital-markets processes, controls, staffing, technology, performance, and revenue leakage.
Mortgage Technology Advisory
Operator-informed evaluation of hedging, pricing, eligibility, execution, workflow, data, and automation platforms.
Special Situations & Execution Support
Immediate support during volatility, liquidity pressure, hedge underperformance, wind-downs, and other critical transitions.
Capital Markets Advisory
Strategic and operational advice involving:
Pipeline risk management
Hedge strategy and performance
Pricing and margin management
Liquidity and warehouse exposure
Best execution
Investor and counterparty strategy
“Capital-markets performance depends on how pricing, hedging, liquidity, operations, and controls work together—not on any one decision in isolation.”
Interim & Fractional Leadership
Short- or long-term support when a company:
Has an unexpected leadership vacancy
Is searching for a permanent executive
Needs experienced oversight during a transition
Is launching or rebuilding a capital-markets function
Requires senior expertise without a full-time hire
Titles could include:
Interim Head of Capital Markets
Fractional Secondary Marketing Executive
Interim Trading or Hedging Lead
Capital Markets Adviser to executive leadership
“The problem is not that the models are wrong. The problem is that the models are often answering a different question than management is trying to solve.”
Operational Assessment & Improvement
Lock desk
Pricing
Hedge execution
Loan sales
Investor allocation
Reporting
Controls
Technology
Staffing
Policies and procedures
“There is often a significant difference between maximizing volume and optimizing performance. A lender operating beyond its capacity may produce more loans while simultaneously delivering worse outcomes.”
Special Situations & Execution Support
Capabilities
Severe rate or volatility events
Hedge underperformance
Liquidity stress
Margin compression
Failed models or weak controls
Counterparty and investor problems
Merger integration
Operational remediation
Business wind-downs
Rapid changes in origination volume
Board or executive decision support
“A strategy must be economically sound. It must also be operationally executable, strategically aligned, and compliant with applicable regulations.”
Mortgage Technology Advisory
Capabilities
Hedging and pipeline-management platforms
Pricing and eligibility engines
Best-execution and loan-sale technology
Vendor and product evaluation
Workflow and data architecture
Implementation readiness
Product strategy and roadmap input
AI and automation use cases
User and lender requirements
Independent evaluation of platform capabilities and performance claims
Research & Publications
Independent research papers and executive briefings focused on strategic decision-making, financial systems, housing finance, liquidity risk, and long-term industry trends
• Project Mortgage: A First Principles Guide to Mortgage Capital Markets
• The Psychology of Mortgage Pricing: Why the Best Price Is Rarely the Perfect Price
• The Coming Wave of Mortgage Industry Consolidation
• Institutional Risk in Warehouse Lending Networks
• Managing Pipeline Risk During Elevated MBS Volatility
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