Monday, June 30, 2008

MBA Promotes Woodwell to VP of Commercial/Multifamily Research

MBA (6/30/2008 ) Vasquez, Jason
The Mortgage Bankers Association announced promotion of Jamie Woodwell to vice president of commercial/multifamily research.

In this role, Woodwell will continue to lead the research on commercial finance and multifamily finance issues and will be responsible for providing economic and policy analysis of legislative and regulatory proposals. He will also serve as the industry's lead source of information and interpretation on macroeconomic and capital market trends to meet MBA's commercial/multifamily members' needs and the needs of the association.
Prior to joining MBA in 2004, Woodwell was manager of data initiatives for the multifamily group at Fannie Mae, where he was responsible for developing multifamily data standards and for projects consolidating data from various business lines. He also served as the senior director of business development at CapitalThinking in New York, director of market research at the WMF Group in Vienna, Va., and research manager at the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C.

"Jamie's in depth understanding and analysis of commercial and multifamily finance issues has proven invaluable to MBA's membership and the overall industry," said Jonathan Kempner, president and CEO of MBA. "I am proud to have Jamie serve as vice president of commercial/multifamily research and look forward to many significant advances under his leadership."

Woodwell will continue to oversee MBA's surveys on commercial/multifamily production and servicing, and will produce regular and topical reports. He will also continue to serve as the staff representative for MBA's Commercial/Multifamily Research Committee.

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