Sig Anderman

Sig Anderman is a serial entrepreneur, having founded, run, invested in and advised numerous real estate and mortgage services and financial technology companies over a 50-year career. He was CEO of American Home Shield Corporation, the pioneering home warranty company that he helped found in 1973.

After American Home Shield, the dominant home warranty company in the country, was sold in 1982, Sig started CompuFund, Inc., a computerized mortgage origination company, founded in 1982; and Inspectech, Inc., a computerized home inspection service, founded in 1992.

In 1998, Sig founded Ellie Mae, Inc., now the country’s leading provider of automation software for the mortgage industry. He was president and Chief Executive Officer of Ellie Mae from 1998 to 2015, and until April 2019 was Executive Chairman of the Board.

Ellie Mae’s digital mortgage solution, Encompass, is used by 3,000 lenders and mortgage brokers to originate and fund approximately 50 percent of all residential mortgages in the United States.

Ellie Mae has been recognized as not only one of the best performing and fastest growing companies in its industry, in the software business, among all companies in the United States (Fortune’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies in 2017) and on the New York Stock Exchange (“ELLI”), but also as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco and Silicon Valley Business Times top 20) and the United States (Glassdoor Top 40).

In 2011 Ellie Mae went public, with a market cap of $140 million, and in 2019, it was purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $3.7 Billion. Sig was named one of the “Ten Most Influential People in the Mortgage Industry” in 2005, named an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist in 2014, and received the Distinguished Career Award from the Executive Roundtable for Mortgage Finance in 2019. He is the subject of several books and articles relating to entrepreneurship, including The Eight Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs by New York Times’ writer Brent Bowers, Small Business Growth Strategies, and Leadership Plans for CEOs: Top CEOs on Building a Team, Achieving Goals and Delivering Value,” by Aspatore, and Tom Peters’ “Re-Imagine!: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age,” and the 2005 Tom Peters’ PBS Special on Business Excellence and Innovation.