Brian began his career 17 years ago with Prudential Home Mortgage in Minneapolis, where he spent 5 years in retail operations and sales. Following the Minnesota experience Brian and his wife Gina relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Gina took a job with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brian took a position with Charter Bank. Brian developed a corporate affinity program where he focused on regional associations and corporations in New Mexico.

After almost 2 years, Brian's wife Gina seized an opportunity in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia and took a job as a Professor at James Madison University. Consequently, Brian followed his wife to Virginia and took a job with Freddie Mac. As an Account Manager, Brian managed the relationships between community bank seller/servicers and Freddie Mac.

In 1999, Brian left Freddie Mac and took a job with CitiMortgage as a Regional Sales Manager for all credit and lending products in the Citigroup arsenal. As the Regional Sales Manager he managed relationships with Solomon Smith Barney, Travelers Insurance, and Primerica Financial Insurance.

In January 2000, Brian moved to Wells Fargo Home Mortgage where he led an operations retention team of 60+ team members as an overflow mechanism in the face of huge refinance volume. Following that 8 month project he took a month in Malaga, Spain and participated in a Spanish submersion course to work on his Spanish diction. Upon his return, Brian returned to Wells Fargo's Sales Delivery Connection as the National Business Development Manager and managed the internal wholesale sales initiative.

Upon completion of the Wells Fargo project, Brian joined Silvergate Bank in September of 2003, where he was the SVP of The Mortgage Banking Group. His responsibilities included all things necessary to create a profitable and saleable mortgage; to include Secondary Marketing, Sales and Operations. In August of 2005, Silvergate Bank decided to exit the wholesale lending business in Southern California.

In October of 2005, Brian traveled to Cairo Egypt with the Mortgage Bankers Association and participated in the Egyptian Financial Services Project where he and a team of industry professionals worked in concert to develop the framework from which Egypt will begin to create an evolving Mortgage Banking industry.

In December 2005, Brian accepted another mission with Wells Fargo in the Institutional Lending channel as a VP-Division Sales Manager. He leads a team or Regional Account Managers that focus on mid size lenders that sell loans to Wells Fargo on a correspondent basis.

Brian, his wife Gina, and their 2 hounds, Tucker & Zia, live in Harrisonburg, Virginia.