Meet Our Team

Gate House Strategies

Brian Montgomery

Founding Partner
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Brian Montgomery

A universally respected veteran of four presidential administrations (both Republican and Democrat), Montgomery most recently served as Deputy Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Keith Becker

Founding Partner
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Keith Becker

With more than 37 years in the mortgage industry, Becker recently served as Chief Risk Officer for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), responsible for implementing the agency’s comprehensive risk governance infrastructure and the independent monitoring and reporting of FHA’s financial, mortgage credit, counterparty credit, and operational risks.
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Dror Oppenheimer

Founding Partner
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Dror Oppenheimer

Over 35 years working in the mortgage industry, Oppenheimer recently served as Senior Advisor to the FHA Commissioner, where he was responsible for advising the Commissioner on updating FHA’s Single Family servicing policies to support sustainable homeownership, aligning FHA with industry best practices for Single Family servicing, and supporting FHA’s technology modernization initiative, FHACatal
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Hunter Kurtz

Founding Partner
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Hunter Kurtz

Considered a leading expert in both Public Housing and Community Development programs, Kurtz has spent his professional career working in the affordable housing industry at the state, local, and federal levels.
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Michael Marshall

Founding Partner
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Michael Marshall

Marshall recently served as Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) at HUD, advising the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on policy matters, research and demonstrations, economic information, innovation, international programs, and philanthropic initiatives.
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Steve Powel

Senior Advisor
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Steve Powel

A highly respected executive with 38 years of extensive experience in the commercial real estate industry, renowned for his business acumen, innovation, and global perspective, Powel serves as a Senior Advisor to the Gate House family of companies providing strategic counsel and industry insights.
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Gate House Compliance

Michael Waldron

Compliance Partner
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Michael Waldron

Michael Waldron is a Founding Partner of Gate House Compliance, LLC. He has over 25 years of helping management teams navigate regulatory, transactional, corporate governance, and litigation matters while mitigating risk and expanding market position.
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Paul Hancock

K&L Gates
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Paul Hancock

Paul’s expertise in fair lending dates back to his service in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led the Department’s fair-housing and fair-lending enforcement program, and extends up through the present.
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Liz Scholz

Senior Advisor
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Liz Scholz

Liz Scholz serves as a Senior Advisor in compliance, risk, and client strategies. Liz served as an executive with FHFA for twelve years where she led activities in examination, regulatory policy, and Board monitoring of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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James Jorgensen

President & CEO At CrossCheck Compliance LLC
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James Jorgensen

Jim is a proven entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in the internal audit and accounting profession.
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Mike Forester

Partner At CrossCheck Compliance LLC
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Mike Forester

Mike is a senior financial services executive with over 45 years of operations, financial and technology experience. The last 25 years he has focused specifically in the mortgage industry, covering conforming and subprime markets, securitization, compliance and fraud.
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Liza Warner

Partner – Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit & Fair Lending At CrossCheck Compliance LLC
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Liza Warner

Liza is a regulatory compliance, internal audit and risk management executive with over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry.
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Gate House Digital

Dain Ehring

Digital Partner
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Dain Ehring

Ehring has over 30 years of executive level leadership, primarily in Fintech. In 1998, he founded Dorado, a leading SaaS company in consumer finance and a residential lending network. He holds several patents in middleware workflow.
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Debbie Hoffman

Advisor
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Debbie Hoffman

Debbie Hoffman is an executive leader, board member and professor in financial services, legal, compliance and technology innovation. She is Professor & Co-Director, Financial Compliance & Risk Management Program at Albany Law School and serves on the boards of Elphi, DomiDocs and ECPI University.
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