Michael “Mike” Dubeck is President and CEO of Planet Financial Group, LLC, the parent company of Planet Home Lending, LLC, and Planet Management Group, LLC, a private client and government sub-servicer of residential and small-balance commercial loans. A former Morgan Stanley managing director known for bringing Wall Street smarts to mortgage banking, Dubeck has built Planet into a multichannel juggernaut with a $28 billion servicing portfolio, a best-in-class Retail Retention group, and thriving Retail branches across the country. Dubeck was named a mortgage industry Top 25 Leader and Influencer by MReport and is a HousingWire Vanguard Award winner.

A results-driven leader, Sandra Jarish is known for adapting technology to deliver deep insight to investors and single-point-of-contact loss mitigation to customers. Her ability to turn non-performing borrowers into re-performing borrowers has made Planet a legend among EBO nerds. An expert in M&A, portfolio acquisitions, and efficient onboarding of highly-defaulted portfolios, specialized products, and special servicing assets, Jarish has been with Planet Home Lending from its beginnings in 2007, and was named a HousingWire Vanguard Award winner in 2019.

Teresa McDermott brings more than 25 years of executive financial expertise in the mortgage industry to provide action-based management reporting while overseeing the Treasury and Accounting divisions at Planet Financial Group. As the company’s senior finance executive, McDermott maintains comprehensive internal controls over company assets and financial reporting while leading Planet’s due diligence and modeling as the company identifies expansion opportunities within the industry.

Jim McDonald’s unique combination of industry, technology, and digital marketing expertise drives the creation of modern, customer-focused marketing for Planet. He believes product and marketing are at different ends of the same spectrum and the customer experience is the glue that holds them together. Therefore, his primary objective is to tell the Planet story, via its great customer experience, to as many people as possible. He has been a featured speaker at HousingWire, Customer Experience Leadership Forum, Search Engine Strategies, and AdTech events.

Henry Brandt provides critical data-driven sales and management insight to Planet Home Lending, LLC, branches gleaned from his nearly two decades in the mortgage industry. Brandt joined Planet in 2017 to open one of the company’s first Distributed Retail branches. He was promoted to Vice President, Branch Support Services and Integration, where he helped newly onboarded branches successfully transition to Planet. In his current role, he recruits and supports Planet branches throughout the Central U.S. region and helps steer Planet’s ongoing growth strategy.

Muthu Srinivasan develops and drives technology strategies to support company growth, speed the lending pipeline, and deliver an exceptional experience to customers and business partners. An inspirational leader, Srinivasan’s mortgage IT product knowledge and expertise are exceptional. During his more than two decades in mortgage technology, Srinivasan has been a sought-after subject matter expert known for delivering keen insights and efficient solutions to both technology and business challenges.

John Bosley’s analytic and strategic insights have driven the rapid growth of Planet Home Lending’s Correspondent and Capital Markets initiatives. Known for bringing clarity to complicated analyses and complex transactions, Bosley grew the capital markets department from zero to more than $1 billion per month of funded loan production in just four years. His executions, competitive analysis, and ability to build investor relationships enables the consistent execution, pricing, and turn times Planet’s Correspondent lending partners expect.

Lauren Reames has spent the past decade in the mortgage industry. She began her career in the industry as a mortgage loan originator and went on to work as a processor for People’s Home Equity and CrossCountry Mortgage, Inc. In 2017, she joined Planet Home Lending, LLC, where she rose through the ranks and was recently promoted to senior vice president of national fulfillment.

Michele Kryczkowski knows the mortgage industry from the ground up, having started as an account executive at EquiFirst in 2004. She soon moved on — and up — Aegis Wholesale, before learning the intricacies of processing at Michigan Capital Finance. By 2012, she was VP, National Wholesale Operations Manager at Pacific Union Financial, then took her organization skills and keen insight to First Guaranty before coming aboard at Planet and SVP, National Fulfillment.

Dierk Hohman has extensive knowledge of the mortgage, banking, financial and capital markets sectors. He has advised corporations and financial institutions on compliance and risk management, federal and state regulatory matters, litigation, and corporate and finance transactions.

Prior to joining Planet Financial Group, LLC, Hohman served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Risk Officer of Nexbank Capital, Inc. Throughout his career, he has held positions at leading financial services companies, banks and law firms.

Ben Hughes is a global human resources business executive with a proven, roll-up-your-sleeves approach to leadership. His deep financial services expertise in talent acquisition will continue to attract the best to the Planet family. Additionally, Ben is focused on creating career pathways, so Planet employees have opportunities to grow as the company continues to expand.

Before joining Planet Home Lending, Hughes was CHRO at American Bank, Corpus Christi, Texas. Prior to that, he was Head of Human Resources, Americas for Hudson Advisors L.P. He spent more than a decade at Capital One Financial Corp., where he was Senior Director of Human Resources.

John Miller is a senior mortgage executive with demonstrated expertise in Residential First Mortgage Fulfillment, Underwriting, Credit Policy and Lending Authority. An effective, decisive communicator, leader, and team builder, he has 25 years of residential mortgage experience, including 18 years in management. Prior to joining Planet Home Lending, Mr. Miller was a credit risk and policy executive for Everett Financial (DBA Supreme Lending) and a national retail credit lending and signature authority service and enforcement executive for Bank of America Home Loans.

Armed with deep expertise in mortgage recruiting, executive management, and charismatic enthusiasm, Brian C. Miller runs the talent acquisition organization that supports Planet’s growth.

Before joining Planet Home Lending, Miller was Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth at Caliber Home Loans, Inc. During his two decades in the industry, he has held talent leadership and recruiting positions at PrimeLending, Stearns Lending, MetLife Home Loans, and Bank of America.

Miller holds a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications from Waldorf University.

Caleb Mittelstet has more than two decades of expertise leading and profitability growing distributed retail channels while maintaining origination quality. He has developed internal and external business channels through recruitment of regional, area and branch managers as well as the creation of national and regional joint ventures, and marketing and sales agreements that enhance product penetration and capture market share.

Prior to joining Planet Home Lending, LLC, Mittelstet was Executive Vice President of Sales at Summit Funding, Inc. During his career, he has also held retail leadership positions at New American Funding, Pacific Union Financial, LLC, CMG Financial, PrimeLending, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.

Stephanie Gibbons is an experienced credit risk and underwriting leader with a demonstrated history of complex underwriting and credit risk management who manages underwriting for the Eastern and Western Regions. Gibbons has been working to identify areas to improve and streamline underwriting and driving process improvement. She has been with Planet Home Lending since September 2019 and has formed extensive partnerships with sales and operations while helping to build a strong underwriting team.

Michaelene Whyte has been a processor since the beginning of her career, giving her valuable, hands-on insight into every aspect of the job from the ground up. With this knowledge, she not only manages processing for the Eastern and Western regions, she is also standardizing corporate processing for maximum efficiency based on intensely researched techniques. Whyte has been with Planet Home Lending since 2018 and was instrumental in building corporate processing procedures and infrastructure.

Kristen Johnson is committed to delivering exceptional experiences to Planet Home Lending branches. Creator of constructive partnerships that provide superior service and resources, encourage engagement and organizational diversity, promote company culture, and increase branch production and overall profitability, she also leads by example, inspiring the Branch Administration Team to provide highly effective and consistent onboarding and forward growth initiatives.

A seasoned financial professional, Tina Hester has 23 years of experience in the mortgage, banking, and credit union industries. Tina is a compliance SME, and with her expertise in fields as diverse as mortgage lending operations, quality assurance and control, and compliance risk management, she is a great fit for the Planet Home Lending team and natural choice for VP, National Closing and Funding. Her additional in-depth knowledge of business continuity planning helps Planet build on the present and look to the future.

As an Advocate and experienced finance professional in operations and sales with over twenty years of experience in the mortgage industry, Brenda Colter’s passion is to provide an extraordinary experience to employees which correlates into a superior customer experience. This has made her the perfect person to execute the Planet’s Branch Advocacy program that offers ongoing service to branches — day one, week one, and beyond.

An experienced business professional and leader with a background in training, instructional design, curriculum development, DEI, succession planning, budgeting, project management, process improvement, and gap analysis, Starla Sharpe has also mastered video creation, video production, voice overs, mortgage, banking, business leadership & development, and corporate administration. Sharpe is excellent at interfacing with others at all levels to ensure organizational goals are attained. Her effective management skills help direct, train, and motivate staff to their fullest potential.

With nearly a decade of versatile marketing experience in fast-paced, creative production environments and management roles, Katie Kobilarcsik is recognized as a cross-functional team leader, bringing strategic and innovative ideas to marketing-technology projects. Results-driven, adaptable, skilled in teamwork, time management and project organization, with a passion for sales enablement, she is fiercely committed to supporting Distributed Retail branches in their marketing needs both conventional and digital.

Brandon Sorensen’s proactive approaches to problem solving are complemented by his interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills. While no one person can truly specialize in all things Capital Markets, Sorensen comes close with his deep knowledge of product and pricing engines, Compass Analytics, Encompass, Mortgage Cadence Symphony, FICS, Optimal Blue, Blitzdocs, Calyx Point, Prolender, network architecture project planning, and management.

A mortgage professional since 1997, Tricia Souza is an experienced Underwriting Manager, Trainer, and Underwriter with a demonstrated history of success in the industry. With her deep knowledge of Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Jumbo, and Renovation Loans, she ensures Planet delivers a polished and professional customer service experience in all aspects of underwriting and coaches her reports in excellent interpersonal communication skills.

As a seasoned manager with over 15 years of mortgage and operational experience, Cara Passarella Excels at developing and maintaining key business relationships while building high performance teams. Her talent for making rapid assessments of diverse situational challenges then developing and leading the resulting action plans makes her a genuine asset to Planet.