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Jim A. Jorgensen - President & CEO


Jim A. Jorgensen
President & CEO

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Jim is a proven entrepreneur with over 32 years of experience in the internal audit and accounting profession. He founded CrossCheck Compliance in 2008 to provide financial services organizations access to highly talented regulatory compliance, lending and internal audit professionals. Prior to CrossCheck Compliance he co-founded Jefferson Wells a professional services firm providing business solutions and process improvement to its clients in the areas of internal audit, accounting, tax, and technology risk management. Jefferson Wells was one of the fastest growing private companies in the mid to late 1990’s growing to 25 offices with 1,600 employees and achieving annual sales of $131 million. Prior to joining Jefferson Wells, Jim held various leadership positions in internal auditing for Kraft Inc. and Tenneco Inc. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Internal Auditor, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Jim is a graduate of St. Norbert College and holds an MBA from the University of Houston.



Michael M. Forester - Managing Director

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.



F. Todd Krell - Director

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.



Heidi A. Wier - Director

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.



Jim Shankle - Director

Jim Shankle
Director 

 

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Jim Shankle is a regulatory compliance and internal audit professional with 30 years of experience in the financial and professional services industries. He is currently a Director in our Chicago office at CrossCheck Compliance, LLC. Prior to CrossCheck, Jim provided regulatory compliance and internal audit expertise for clients as a Financial Institutions Services Director at Jefferson Wells - a provider of internal audit, accounting, technology risk and tax services. Jim has been a Chief Audit Executive at an Ohio based thrift and spent 3 years in the former Soviet Union assisting with banking privatization efforts in the newly formed independent states. Jim began his career at Banc One Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase) and spent 12 years where he was responsible for the financial audit and regulatory compliance functions of the corporate audit division. Jim has proven skills in leadership, communications, policy and procedure development and implementation and is a Certified Financial Services Auditor.

Jim is a graduate of The Ohio State University.