Michael M. Forester 
Managing Director

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Mike Forester has spent nearly 30 years in the mortgage and financial services industries. Prior to co-founding CrossCheck, he was associated with The Prieston Group, a firm he helped launch that provides fraud prevention, and indemnification services to the mortgage industry. Prior to joining The Prieston Group, he spent 16 years with Household International. During his career with Household, he served in a variety of positions, including national sales director of Household's correspondent mortgage business and chief financial officer of Household's consumer finance business, Household Finance. Mike began his professional career with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young and is a Certified Public Accountant.

He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Liza Warner
Managing Director

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Liza Warner is a regulatory compliance and internal audit professional with 25 years of experience in the financial and professional services industries. She is currently Managing Director at CrossCheck Compliance, LLC. Prior to CrossCheck, she provided regulatory compliance and internal audit expertise for clients as an executive at Jefferson Wells - a provider of internal audit, accounting, technology risk and tax services and Baker Tilly USA (Virchow Krause & Co., LLC) - the 17th largest U.S. public accounting firm. Liza spent 13 years at Bank One Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase) where she held key executive roles in both internal audit and regulatory compliance. She has proven skills in leadership, communications, policy and procedure development and implementation. Liza began her career at Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin and is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Financial Services Auditor.

Liza is a graduate of Marquette University.

Elizabeth Healy
Director

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Beth Healy is an experienced professional services business development executive. Before joining CrossCheck Compliance, Beth spent much of her career at Jefferson Wells. She joined the internal audit, accounting, tax, and technology risk management firm in its infancy and was a critical part of its early development to what is now a major international firm. She also served as Director of Client Solutions at The Novo Group; a firm focused on providing custom recruiting solutions and has held various operations and sales positions in at regional banks in Wisconsin.

Beth is a graduate of Marquette University.

F. Todd Krell
Director

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Todd Krell has over 15 years of experience in mortgage lending with an emphasis on quality due diligence services, including underwriting, compliance, client relations, fraud detection, quality control, and collateral review. Before joining CrossCheck, Todd worked at Heartland Wholesale Funding and HSBC. Todd has designed and implemented procedures with an emphasis on quality control, fraud detection, and collateral review. While at Household/HSBC he performed onsite due diligence and oversaw completion of numerous due diligence projects which consisted of full credit, compliance, fraud, and collateral reviews. He directed his staff to decreasing quality control and compliance error rates as well as increasing fraud and inflated collateral detection results.

Todd is a graduate of Illinois State University.

James Whittemore
Director 

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Jim Whittemore is a financial services executive with nearly thirty years of mortgage banking experience. Jim has held many positions in the industry including front end and back end operations, underwriting and front end sales management. Jim has managed on-site due diligence and training through-out the US for Securitizations, Whole loan purchases, Quality Control and Servicer Audits. Prior to joining CrossCheck Compliance, Jim worked at RBS Greenwich Capital where he was SVP and Chief Underwriter for Securitizations and whole loan purchases for 5 years and then led the servicer audit functions the last 2 years of his tenure. Mr. Whittemore also headed wholesale mortgage due diligence underwriting during his five years at HSBC and managed the front end regional mortgage originations for Firstar Bank (now US Bank) for 10 years prior to HSBC.

Heidi A. Wier
Director 

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Heidi Wier is a regulatory compliance and internal audit professional with over twenty years of experience in the financial and professional services industries. Prior to joining CrossCheck, her responsibilities included leading the internal audit and controls practice of the Milwaukee office of Jefferson Wells International, providing compliance support throughout the Midwest region of a twelve-state $90 billion bank holding company, managing and performing comprehensive internal audits and regulatory compliance reviews, and managing all aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance implementation projects for companies of various sizes and industries. Heidi has proven skills in project management; development and implementation of solutions; team leadership and communications; and is a Certified Financial Services Auditor.

Heidi is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.