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Vice President Sales

Location:
Parker, CO, 80134
Posted:
June 28, 2011

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James R. Manion, III

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**** ****** ***** ***** ? Parker, CO 80134 ? Telephone: 214-***-****

Email: *********@***.***

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General/Senior Counsel, Corporate, Finance & Financial Services

Corporate, Finance and Regulatory Expertise/ Financial Services/Mortgage

Banking/Joint Ventures/Mergers & Acquisitions/Revenue Generation Strategies

Product Development/Risk Management/Business Process Reengineering/Creating

Investor Value/Asset Sales/Building Strategic Alliances

JD, BA, Senior business lawyer with more than 20 years of senior-level

management experience, combining legal skills with a strong business

acumen.

Senior-level management acumen gained over the past 20+ years encompasses:

. Selected at the age of 34, to act as General Counsel & Secretary of a

NYSE company as part of a 6-member management team, charged with

turning around a bank holding company in serious financial trouble.

Within an 18-month time period, jettisoned losing business lines,

reduced financial exposure, and raised capital in the first U.S. bank

recovery not requiring federal assistance.

. Grew in 7 years, GreenPoint Mortgage, from a $1 billion mortgage

operation to $60 billion, including the creation of subsidiaries in

Bangalore, India and BPO joint venture with Progeon a subsidiary of

InfoSys. Also formed an NASD joint venture with the Winter Group to

facilitate sales in the securities markets

. Turnaround in 2 years, a $100,000 a year net income financial

services company, into a $100,000 a month net income company, with

gross revenues increasing from $1.3 million to $9.5 million.

Core competencies: Creating a Shared Operational Vision; Forming &

Leveraging Strategic Alliances; Managing Outsourcing Providers; Leadership

by Example; Board-Level Presentation Skills; Turning the Business Plan into

a Legally and Ethically Compliant Strategy; Contract Negotiations/Deal

Structuring; P&L Improvements; and Restructuring Underperforming

Businesses. Turning corporate vision into reality.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

W.J. BRADLEY MORTGAGE CAPITAL CORP., Denver, CO 2009 to Present

(A closely held retail conforming mortgage company)

Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary - As the Company's first

in-house lawyer, primary responsibilities focused on risk assessment and

navigating the

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organization through the most significant statutory and regulatory changes

in the mortgage industry in the last 30 years.

CONSULTANT, Dallas, Texas 2006 to 2008

Advise and counsel public and private organizations on all issues of

corporate law and finance. Engagements include international organization

and contractual arrangements, reorganization and reengineering, mergers and

acquisitions and risk mitigation.

DIGITAL DOCS, INC., Dallas, Texas 2004 to 2006

(A mortgage lending, financial services, and technology company providing

integrated and automated loan closing solutions that tripled loan closing

productivity. approximately 50 loans per day)

President & Principal - Primary duties focused on growing Digital Docs into

a national application service provider for automated mortgage compliance

solutions. Hired at Digital Docs, to take a outsourced compliance services

provider from a small company with minimal cash flow to the next level. In

less than 3 years, transformed the Company into a viable competitor in the

national ASP compliance marketplace.

GREENPOINT MORTGAGE CORP. & FUNDING, INC. 1995 to 2003

Novato, California & Charlotte, North Carolina

(A $60 Billion Mortgage subsidiary of an NYSE Bank Holding Company

providing mortgage loans through a network of more than 30 offices in the

United States)

Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary (1999 to 2003) -

Scope of duties consisted of providing legal services in connection with

wholesale, retail, and correspondent originations exceeding $10 billion

annually with a servicing portfolio in excess of $10 billion.

Senior Vice President, Legal, Human Resources & Corporate Services General

Counsel & Secretary (1995 to 1999) - Responsible for the provision of

legal, HR, and corporate services for a national banking operation with

wholesale, retail, telemarketing, servicing, and commercial businesses.

BARCLAYSAMERICAN MORTGAGE CORP 1993 to 1995

Charlotte, North Carolina

(U.S. Mortgage Subsidiary of UK Headquartered Barclays Bank)

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Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary - Selected as executive

officer tasked with assessing the financial condition of a failing company

and developing and implementing strategies to ameliorate losses.

. Financial and Risk analysis to uncover losses exceeding $600 million

with substantial ongoing risk.

. Implemented Strategy for asset sales, selling servicing assets to one

buyer and production assets to another buyer.

EQUIMARK CORPORATION, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1987 to 1993

(A $3 Billion Diversified Bank Holding Company offering banking services

through multiple banking, credit and insurance subsidiaries.)

Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary (1991-1993); Deputy

General Counsel (1987-1991) - Selected as the only employee of the old

management structure who was promoted to serve as one of 6 executive

officers tasked with saving the organization. As corporate secretary,

responsible for counseling the Board of Directors and shareholder relations

and reporting.

Prior 1987 Professional Experience

Dollar Bank, Federal Savings Bank, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1983 to 1987

Counsel (1983-1987), Attorney (1983-1984)

Federated Investors, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1981 to 1983

Associate Corporate Counsel

EDUCATION & HONORS & AWARDS

Juris Doctor, Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

1981, (Class Rank 8/104)

Honors: Brennan Scholarship, second in class; Law Review; Appellate Moot

Court Board

Awards: Clerkship with the Honorable Ruggero Aldisert, United States Court

of Appeal for the Third Circuit

BA., Political Science & Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, Washington and

Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1978, (Class Rank 25/232)

Honors: Dean's List; James Clyde McGregor Prize in Political Science, Pi

Sigma Alpha

Awards: Distinguished Military Student



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