All borrowers can achieve
financial freedom

We accomplish this mission by reimagining the lending experience completely.
What if, instead of a borrower looking for the best loan, the best loan finds the borrower.

Our Executive Team

Meet the TrustEngine leadership team. By combining deep mortgage expertise with big data and technology approaches from outside the industry
— including household names in packaged goods, big pharma and technology — we are paving the way for the future of lending.
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Rich Harris

Chief Executive Officer

Rich Harris

Rich is a data-driven leader with a passion for building and scaling SaaS companies that leverage data and analytics to optimize performance. Before taking the helm of TrustEngine in 2022, Rich was CEO at SparkPost, an email infrastructure platform which was acquired by MessageBird for $600 million in 2021. Rich was also Group Vice President at Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), where he led international operations for the Oracle Data Cloud.. Before that, Rich was CEO at AddThis, a digital ad personalization startup, where he rapidly scaled revenues and orchestrated its acquisition by Oracle. He holds J.D. and MBA degrees from the University of Maryland.

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Taylor Roberts

Chief Financial Officer

Taylor Roberts

Taylor oversees TrustEngine’s finance and accounting departments, leveraging 20 years of financial management experience to scale revenue and organizational growth. Most recently, Taylor served as CFO for enterprise knowledge graph (EKG) platform provider Stardog. Prior to that, he was CFO of restaurant management software MarginEdge, where he helped the startup raise over $20M of equity and rapidly scale both headcount and revenue. Prior to that, he helped lead the successful exits of AddThis to Oracle in 2015 and VividCortex to Solarwinds in 2019. Taylor earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance from the University of Richmond.

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Dave Savage

Chief Innovation Officer

Dave Savage

Dave is an innovator and change agent known in the mortgage industry for reinventing how loan officers quote rates and turn mortgage advice into a competitive advantage. Since founding Mortgage Coach in 2009, Dave has recorded over 1,000 interviews with top mortgage professionals, garnering his YouTube channel a reputation as “Netflix for loan officers.” He remains passionate about leveraging technology to help LOs provide consultative service that ensures borrowers receive the best home financing outcomes available. Dave is a frequent speaker at lender sales rallies and conferences including MBA Tech, Digital Mortgage, HousingWire, Sales Mastery and the Mastermind Summit.

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Shelli Holland

Chief People Officer

Shelli Holland

With nearly two decades of experience developing people strategy at leading SaaS companies, Shelli manages the culture, policies and people strategy that motivate TrustEngine’s teams. Her priorities include fostering an employee-led company culture, driving strategic business objectives through technology adoption and developing a transparent internal communications strategy. Before joining TrustEngine, Shelli guided the people function of Phone2Action as it acquired two companies, rebranded and completed a successful acquisition by Quorum. She also held human resources leadership positions at technology developers Frontpoint, Ellucian and Rosetta Stone and served as a people and change consultant at multinational professional services firm KPMG.

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Rich LaBarca

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Rich LaBarca

Rich is an enterprise technical product executive and startup veteran whose decades-long career has left an indelible mark on the Data & Insights SaaS space. As VP of product at AddThis, he, alongside future TrustEngine colleagues Rich Harris and Casey Martin, bootstrapped and scaled the behavioral marketing firm's growth resulting in a successful acquisition by Oracle (NYSE: ORCL). Before joining TrustEngine in 2022, Rich led data, insights and identity-focused products as an executive at Oracle Data Cloud and grew Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Customer Data Platform as its partner general manager.

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Mike Spotten

VP of Product

Mike Spotten

With nearly 15 years of experience leading product, user experience (UX), and engineering teams within ad tech, gaming, commercial real estate, and mobile apps, Mike is a powerhouse at building and maturing products that deliver superior results. His ability to build motivated teams and innovative products that align with overall business goals has helped shape and drive the TrustEngine culture. Prior to joining TrustEngine, Mike was co-founder of Grumble Interactive, a Baltimore-based mobile app developer that was featured by Apple on multiple occasions. He earned his bachelor’s degree in interactive design from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Yuesong Wang

VP of Engineering

Yuesong Wang

Yuesong is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience in multiple disciplines including software design, distributed systems, big data, and cloud. As VP of engineering, he collaborates with cross-function stakeholders to define and execute TrustEngine’s near-term product roadmap and long-term vision. Prior to TrustEngine, Yuesong was senior director of software development at Oracle Advertising, where his work focused on aligning numerous teams to accelerate product time-to-market. Prior to Oracle, he led the platform engineering team at audience-tracking firm AddThis in the role of director of software architecture.

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Joshua Scarpino

VP of Information Security

Joshua Scarpino

Josh is passionate about cybersecurity and ethical technology, implementing controls to ensure critical lender and borrower information is protected, and unifying teams and business objectives. Before joining TrustEngine, Josh spent nearly two decades driving change across IT and security initiatives at leading firms including Diebold-Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), CrossCountry Mortgage, Westfield Insurance, and HRTech innovator Harver. Josh is a veteran of the United States Air Force. An active researcher in the field of responsible technology, Josh holds a D.Sc. in cybersecurity from Marymount University. He earned his master’s degree in cybersecurity and a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Excelsior University.

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Casey Martin

Chief Revenue Officer

Casey Martin

Casey has over a decade of executive-level experience leading sales and go-to-market strategies for tech startups. As chief revenue officer, he is responsible for aligning TrustEngine’s sales and client services teams to drive adoption and penetrate new markets. Previously, as head of U.S. sales for SparkPost, Casey helped the email-sending platform become the world’s largest deliverer of commercial email and attract a $600 million strategic acquisition. Before joining SparkPost, Casey was head of sales at audience-tracking firm AddThis, where he helped future TrustEngine CEO Rich Harris manage the successful sale and transition of the company to Oracle (NYSE: ORCL).

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Rachel Cunningham

VP of Customer Success

Rachel Cunningham

As VP of customer success, Rachel oversees TrustEngine’s customer success, implementation, and support teams. With the client experience front-of-mind, she provides personalized support that helps lenders build revenue by leveraging automation to find the mortgage-ready consumers in their databases. She also spearheaded the development and execution of the Sales Boomerang customer advisory board in 2022. Before joining TrustEngine, Rachel served eight years at fiber-optic internet provider DQE Communications, where she oversaw sales engineering, sales operations and sales support.

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Anthony Ward

Director of Marketing & Demand Gen

Anthony Ward

Anthony is a seasoned marketing professional with a passion for generating demand through marketing automation and data orchestration. As the Director of Marketing Operations & Demand Generation, he brings a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm to the role. Anthony's love for his family is evident in the pride he takes in being a father to his son, Bransen, and his loyal lab-whippet mix dog, Toffee.  In his personal and professional life, Anthony brings a can-do attitude and a commitment to excellence. With his expertise, enthusiasm, and dedication, Anthony inspires the team to go above and beyond, being an inspiring figure to those around him.

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Our Story

TrustEngine’s category-leading solutions put data in the driver’s seat of every customer engagement.
We’ve been pushing the boundary of what’s possible in the mortgage realm for more than a quarter-century — and we’re still innovating. Here are some highlights from our journey:

2009

Dave Savage founds Mortgage Coach

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2011

Mortgage Coach launches award-winning

YouTube channel

2012

Mortgage Coach introduces native iOS and Android apps

2016

USA Today names Mortgage Coach a must-have app for homebuyers

2017

  • Alex Kutsishin founds Sales Boomerang
  • Mortgage Coach launches MBS monitoring app RateWatch for iOS and Android.

2021

  • Sales Boomerang launches quarterly Mortgage Market Opportunities (MMO) report
  • Mortgage Coach adds debt-consolidation strategies to the Total Cost Analysis (TCA)
  • Sales Boomerang named one of America’s fastest-growing companies, ranking #101 on the Inc 5000 and #49 on the Deloitte Tech Fast 500

2022

  • Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach merge, appoint Rich Harris as CEO
  • TrustEngine named to HousingWire TECH100
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2023

Sales Boomerang and Mortgage Coach rebrand as TrustEngine and announce the launch of the Borrower Intelligence Platform (BIP)