Our Team of Experts

Our internal and affiliated industry experts come from the mortgage and real estate finance industries and related academic areas of study at top universities. Some also have backgrounds at housing-related government agencies.

Tom Follain, CFA see more here
Principal, FI Consulting; Litigation Consulting Practice Lead

Michael Lea, PhD see more here
Principal, Cardiff Economic Consulting; Director, Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate at San Diego State University; Director, FI Consulting Advisory Board; former Executive VP for Global Market Development at Countrywide Financial Corporation; former President of Cardiff Consulting Services

James Follain, PhD see more here
Director, FI Consulting Advisory Board; Former Senior VP in the Mortgage Valuation division of Fidelity Hansen Quality; former Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board; former Senior Director of Capital Management and Policy at Freddie Mac; former tenured professor of economics at Syracuse University and the University of Illinois

David Ling, PhD see more here
McGurn Professor of Real Estate and Director, Master of Science in Real Estate Program at the Hough Graduate School of Business, University of Florida;  former Director of the Bergstrom Center for Real Estate Studies, University of Florida

Richard Green, PhD see more here
Professor, Director, and Chair of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate; former Oliver T. Carr, Jr., Chair of Real Estate Finance at The George Washington University School of Business 

Ann Schnare, PhD
Principal, AB Schnare; former Senior Vice President at Freddie Mac