Jim Park
CEO, The Mortgage Collaborative and Past Chairman, Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA)
Jim Park is the co-founder and CEO of the Mortgage Collaborative – an organization that works to make independent mortgage banks and community banks more competitive and profitable. The organization is made up of more than 200 top lenders in United States with an annual origination volume exceeding $250 billion. Park was the Chair of the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) in 2013 and previously served as the association’s President and CEO from 2005 to 2012. AREAA is currently the largest Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) membership organization in the country today.
Over nearly three decades, Park started several real estate and financial services firms as well as worked at Freddie Mac and FHA. He has dedicated much of his career on policy issues impacting the Asian American community and various affordable lending matters throughout the country.