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

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