Debra Leone
Debra A. Leone, Esq., Principal, is a founding partner of Mountain View Advisors, a consultancy offering offers a full range of advisory services including, Executive and Strategic, Operations and Technology, Change Management, Process and Knowledge Management and Financial and Capital Markets. As a data-driven consultancy, Mountain View guides our clients to make smart strategic decisions, solve complex challenges, streamline operations, improve profitability and accelerate growth. Her regulatory and legal expertise coupled with technological and process acumen enhance her ability to deliver comprehensive insight and guidance to financial service companies seeking to improve or optimize their existing operations. In addition to her extensive experience within mortgage operations, Debra provides a unique blend of assessing compliance challenges against business risk and then integrating system level controls to ensure the desired outcome. Debra works optimally at the intersection of compliance, technology, process and people. Prior to this role, Debra, oversaw day to day mortgage production and loan servicing operations as well as investor relations as COO at CUMAnet, a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) owned by Affinity Federal Credit Union, Greater Alliance Federal Credit Union, New Jersey Community Capital and The Credit Union of New Jersey initially joining as its VP of Legal and Compliance since 2011. Ms. Leone oversaw the development of policies and procedures SOC and external audits and all banking examinations. She has worked with numerous origination and mortgage systems including, Black Knight Empower, BYTE, Genesis and Encompass, MortgageFlex, Prime Alliance Mortgage Cadence, MortgageBot, Blend and FICS as well as the Fiserv DNA core system.
Ms. Leone began her career with the New York Legal Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division and later became the principal law secretary to judges assigned to the New York City Criminal Court. She has served as the Chief of Compliance for mortgage bankers and brokers in the New York City area and has overseen countless federal and state lending examinations and audits. She brings a breadth and depth of experience at the nexus of compliance, technology, people and process. Ms. Leone holds a JD from Brooklyn Law School and a BA in Political Science from Boston University.
