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Chicago, IL-based Guaranteed Rate has Appointed Martin Logan as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Guaranteed Rate is one of the largest retail mortgage lenders in the United States. Headquartered in Chicago, the Company has more than 5,000 employees in over 700 offices across the U.S., and is licensed in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. Since its founding in 2000, Guaranteed Rate has helped hundreds of thousands of homeowners with home purchase loans and refinances and funded more than $37 billion in loans in 2019 alone. The Company has cemented itself as the Home Purchase Experts® by introducing innovative technology, such as the world`s first Digital Mortgage, by offering low rates and by delivering unparalleled customer service. Honors and awards include: “Top Lender for Online Service” for 2018 by U.S. News & World Report; No. 3 ranking in Scotsman Guide`s Top Retail Mortgage Lenders 2018; Top Lender 2016, 2017 and 2018 by Chicago Agent magazine; Chicago Tribune`s Top Workplaces list for seven consecutive years; and Best Overall Online Lender and Best Lender for FHA Refinance by NerdWallet in 2018.
About the Person
Martin Logan is an experienced technology leader, having joined Guaranteed Rate from Amazon, where he was responsible for managing technology for Cloud Drive and software delivery across multiple platforms, most notably for the company's Kindle and recently-launched Fire TV products. At Guaranteed Rate, he will lead the company's longstanding efforts to completely integrate modern technology into the traditionally paper-based mortgage process and develop the first fully digital mortgage. Prior to his time at Amazon, Logan spent six years at Orbitz Worldwide, where he was responsible for merchandising, SEO, and mobile technology. He began his career as software engineer and remains deeply involved with technology engineering, continuing to write code for open source projects to this day. He is also a published technical author, having written a 400-page book on the Erlang programming language. Logan also has organized technology conferences on the programming language in Chicago, Boston, Nashville, The Netherlands and Spain, as well as one upcoming in Austin, Texas later this year. He was also the driving force behind Camp DevOps 2011, which raised more than $6,000 for Chicago Tech Academy. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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