Biggest climbers in New Jersey in 2022, ranked by total volume. Powered by ChatMMI — the only fully conversational AI experience for mortgage and real estate data.
As of July 13, 2026, the top 3 include Brian Deja (Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association, NMLS #777544), Lorraine Faas (Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, Inc., NMLS #479197), and Cesar Izquierdo Casadiego (Provident Bank, NMLS #1969931).
Updated · Recorded mortgage transactions typically appear in this dataset approximately 22 days after the recording date.
| Rank | Loan officer | LO NMLS | Current Lender / Broker | Lender NMLS | Location | Rank Change | 2022 Volume | 2022 Loans |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Brian Deja | 777544 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association | 663185 | — | ▲ 9341 (#9733 → #392) | $25.7M | 29 |
| #2 | Lorraine Faas | 479197 | Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, Inc. | 1025894 | Sea Girt, NJ | ▲ 9089 (#9902 → #813) | $17.0M | 16 |
| #3 | Cesar Izquierdo Casadiego | 1969931 | Provident Bank | 645602 | Woodbridge, NJ | ▲ 8964 (#9354 → #390) | $25.8M | 195 |
| #4 | Giuseppe Baffaro | 922131 | Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association | 663185 | — | ▲ 8882 (#9850 → #968) | $14.9M | 18 |
| #5 | James Davis | 1924075 | Kiavi Funding, Inc. | 1125207 | Pittsburgh, PA | ▲ 8492 (#9665 → #1173) | $13.0M | 27 |
| #6 | Scott Campillo | 1758306 | Pulte Mortgage LLC | 1791 | — | ▲ 8297 (#9770 → #1473) | $10.9M | 21 |
| #7 | Chase Camarda | 968766 | JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association | 399798 | Houston, TX | ▲ 8064 (#9499 → #1435) | $11.1M | 6 |
| #8 | Mahaz Khalifa | 1872931 | City National Bank | 536994 | — | ▲ 8059 (#8883 → #824) | $16.8M | 21 |
| #9 | John Ruisch | 2153745 | Sturdy Savings Bank | 410428 | — | ▲ 8022 (#9930 → #1908) | $8.8M | 37 |
| #10 | Dontrell Churchill | 2015893 | American Neighborhood Mortgage Acceptance Company LLC | 338923 | — | ▲ 8001 (#9885 → #1884) | $8.9M | 38 |
| #11 | Bhagyashri Sheladia | 1959295 | Guaranteed Rate, Inc. | 2611 | Millburn, NJ | ▲ 7765 (#9408 → #1643) | $10.0M | 22 |
| #12 | Evan Blumstein | 410205 | Bank of America, N.A. | 399802 | New York, NY | ▲ 7618 (#9834 → #2216) | $7.5M | 8 |
| #13 | Hye Li Park | 1727183 | PNC Bank, National Association | 446303 | Leonia, NJ | ▲ 7591 (#9590 → #1999) | $8.4M | 19 |
| #14 | Paul Flynn | 116493 | TD Bank NA | 399800 | Mount Laurel, NJ | ▲ 7571 (#9073 → #1502) | $10.7M | 79 |
| #15 | Thomas Hennessy | 697519 | PNC Bank, National Association | 446303 | Pittsburgh, PA | ▲ 7567 (#9527 → #1960) | $8.6M | 8 |
| #16 | Anthony Umholtz | 377409 | First Horizon Bank | 472329 | Tampa, FL | ▲ 7473 (#8721 → #1248) | $12.4M | 12 |
| #17 | Philip Giangiordano | 135100 | Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB | 417673 | Burlington, NJ | ▲ 7401 (#8867 → #1466) | $10.9M | 16 |
| #18 | Terri Hines | 655093 | Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas | 405572 | Los Angeles, CA | ▲ 7348 (#9297 → #1949) | $8.6M | 3 |
| #19 | Benjamin Smith | 739701 | U.S. Bank National Association | 402761 | Earth City, MO | ▲ 7246 (#9592 → #2346) | $7.1M | 12 |
| #20 | Joseph Antonios | 18064 | U.S. Bank National Association | 402761 | Greenwich, CT | ▲ 7176 (#8991 → #1815) | $9.2M | 9 |
| #21 | Belal Khalid | 2076564 | Guaranteed Rate Affinity, LLC | 1598647 | Mount Laurel, NJ | ▲ 7162 (#9208 → #2046) | $8.2M | 21 |
| #22 | Kenneth Robinson | 1445612 | Loan Factory, Inc. | 320841 | San Jose, CA | ▲ 7116 (#9556 → #2440) | $6.8M | 25 |
| #23 | Michael Catania | 641644 | FREEDOM BANK | 499877 | Maywood, NJ | ▲ 7089 (#9475 → #2386) | $7.0M | 5 |
| #24 | Shprintza Dermer | 65161 | The Everest Equity Company, Inc. | 12484 | Suffern, NY | ▲ 7083 (#9987 → #2904) | $5.5M | 17 |
| #25 | Jamarr Lewis | 721763 | Guaranteed Rate, Inc. | 2611 | New York, NY | ▲ 7081 (#8920 → #1839) | $9.0M | 5 |
| #26 | Justin Lueyen | 1259118 | Citibank, NA | 412915 | New York, NY | ▲ 7080 (#9975 → #2895) | $5.6M | 8 |
| #27 | STEPHEN DIGIOIA | 816153 | RIDGEDALE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION | 422379 | East Hanover, NJ | ▲ 7052 (#9068 → #2016) | $8.4M | 21 |
| #28 | Tyler Dunn | 1864169 | Mortgage Research Center, LLC | 1907 | Columbia, MO | ▲ 6979 (#9343 → #2364) | $7.0M | 15 |
| #29 | Edward Karpinski | 152429 | ORNL Federal Credit Union | 471708 | Oak Ridge, TN | ▲ 6952 (#9014 → #2062) | $8.1M | 16 |
| #30 | Susan Peck | 460293 | Citibank, NA | 412915 | New York, NY | ▲ 6945 (#8472 → #1527) | $10.6M | 10 |
| #31 | Hayden Hendrick | 2037569 | SOFI BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | 696891 | Cottonwood Heights, UT | ▲ 6930 (#7492 → #562) | $21.6M | 44 |
| #32 | Glensy Brizuela | 1316464 | Bond Street Mortgage, LLC | 191351 | Paramus, NJ | ▲ 6928 (#8987 → #2059) | $8.1M | 21 |
| #33 | Michelle Schultz | 140414 | NVR Mortgage Finance, Inc. | 1127 | — | ▲ 6854 (#7294 → #440) | $24.3M | 69 |
| #34 | Malgorzata Lapinski | 1656442 | Polish & Slavic Federal Credit Union | 460285 | Clifton, NJ | ▲ 6848 (#9603 → #2755) | $5.9M | 18 |
| #35 | Edmund Ellsworth | 1858702 | Cherry Creek Mortgage, LLC | 3001 | — | ▲ 6845 (#9610 → #2765) | $5.9M | 18 |
| #36 | Richard Bimonte | 1652189 | Mutual of Omaha Mortgage, Inc. | 1025894 | Sea Girt, NJ | ▲ 6843 (#9972 → #3129) | $5.1M | 7 |
| #37 | Timothy Thomas | 480782 | Bank of America, N.A. | 399802 | Syracuse, NY | ▲ 6838 (#9062 → #2224) | $7.5M | 6 |
| #38 | Jasen Bellamy | 353199 | Rate House Mortgage Company | 1611117 | Middlesex, NJ | ▲ 6789 (#9803 → #3014) | $5.3M | 12 |
| #39 | Bruce Eppinger | 145635 | TD Bank NA | 399800 | Mount Laurel, NJ | ▲ 6769 (#9312 → #2543) | $6.5M | 44 |
| #40 | Samantha Fountaine | 2091586 | Legacy Home Loans, LLC | 1131833 | Nashville, TN | ▲ 6769 (#9629 → #2860) | $5.6M | 16 |
| #41 | Imran Abbas | 1788597 | Guaranteed Rate, Inc. | 2611 | Chicago, IL | ▲ 6763 (#9274 → #2511) | $6.5M | 13 |
| #42 | Linda Fenichel | 530040 | Citibank, NA | 412915 | — | ▲ 6726 (#8983 → #2257) | $7.4M | 4 |
| #43 | Violeta Bulatovic-Turanjanin | 423837 | Baxter Credit Union | 476905 | Vernon Hills, IL | ▲ 6725 (#9611 → #2886) | $5.6M | 6 |
| #44 | William Fagan | 698497 | TD Bank NA | 399800 | Boston, MA | ▲ 6710 (#9920 → #3210) | $5.0M | 9 |
| #45 | Meixu Duan | 1272375 | Citibank, NA | 412915 | Rockville, MD | ▲ 6650 (#9878 → #3228) | $5.0M | 7 |
| #46 | Brandon Shilling | 1993387 | Allied Mortgage Group, Inc. | 1067 | Voorhees, NJ | ▲ 6641 (#8490 → #1849) | $9.0M | 40 |
| #47 | Robert Jarvis | 1095239 | City National Bank | 536994 | Los Angeles, CA | ▲ 6585 (#8947 → #2362) | $7.0M | 9 |
| #48 | Marsha Morency | 418894 | Go Rascal Inc. | 2072896 | Brooklyn, NY | ▲ 6581 (#9735 → #3154) | $5.1M | 11 |
| #49 | Thomas Figlioli | 6458 | NewRez LLC | 3013 | Fort Washington, PA | ▲ 6565 (#9633 → #3068) | $5.2M | 14 |
| #50 | Connie Pierre | 2055180 | CMG Mortgage, Inc. | 1820 | Freehold, NJ | ▲ 6549 (#9682 → #3133) | $5.1M | 12 |
These rankings are powered by MMI's nationwide residential mortgage public record dataset. MMI collects mortgage transaction data from recording jurisdictions across the United States, with an average data latency of approximately 22 days from the recording date.
Transactions are matched to NMLS identifiers for loan officers, lenders, and brokers where applicable. MMI then deduplicates, normalizes, and validates this data to create an authoritative mortgage production dataset that powers MMI's analytics, recruiting, marketing, and intelligence products.
Rankings reflect recorded mortgage transactions available to MMI at the time of the last data refresh. Recent activity may continue to update as additional transactions are recorded and processed.
TopMortgageOriginators.com. Biggest Climbers by Volume — New Jersey (2022). Powered by MMI public record mortgage production data, accessed July 13, 2026. https://topmortgageoriginators.com/lo-leaderboard/new-jersey/top-climbers-by-volume/2022
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