Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Gulfside Bank, of Sarasota, has hired five senior banking professionals over the last two months, effectively creating an entire department focused on residential mortgages.
The addition of the residential mortgage team complements the bank’s existing commercial, private banking and wealth management offerings and positions the bank to capitalize on the red-hot local residential real estate market.
The five new employees are two residential lenders and one loan processor focused on conventional residential mortgage loans and a dedicated lender and a processor for nonconventional residential portfolio mortgage loans.
Mark Moore joins Gulfside Bank as a residential lender. His prior experience includes four years at Sabal Palm Bank, 20 years at Peoples Community Bank, two years at Accredited Home Lenders and 14 years at Northwest Financial, which later became Wells Fargo.
Robert Wright is also a residential lender. He was previously a residential loan specialist at Sabal Palm Bank. Before that he spent six years with Movement Mortgage, 13 years with Embrace Home Loans and four years with Wells Fargo.
Chris Blanchard joins Gulfside Bank as a mortgage loan processor. Blanchard worked at Sabal Palm Bank as a loan assistant for six years. Before that, he was an assistant branch manager at Cadence Bank. Blanchard has a total of 28 years’ experience in banking.
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