Brian Leland Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reporting to the CEO, accountable for the residential lending business unit P&L and leading the 200+ person team of Sales & Business Development. Underwriting, Operations and Retention & Portfolio Management to achieve established business objectives while ensuring risk and compliance activities adhere to financial services and residential mortgage lending regulations, legal requirements, and corporate policies. Accountable for developing and achieving targeted objectives by leading and enabling the departmental executive team in their execution of targeted objectives and leadership over their respective areas. Key objectives are profitability and business growth within the corporate risk appetite and banking regulatory framework.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reporting to the CEO, accountable for leading a team of senior credit leaders building quality residential and commercial mortgage portfolios while delivering the highest level of service excellence to Canadian mortgage brokers and commercial mortgage originators and lending partners. Focused on growth, portfolio performance, a solutions-based approach and process optimization as well as compliance with banking supervisory and regulatory bodies. Partner with executive leaders to deliver on the corporate vision by creating enterprise-wide energy inspiring others to the highest levels of performance to execute on the vision and goals. Responsible for approving residential and CMHC insured commercial credit exposures up to $10MM and $75MM, respectively.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reporting to the EVP, Enterprise Underwriting, accountable for leading a team of senior credit leaders building a quality residential mortgage portfolio while delivering the highest level of service excellence to Canadian mortgage brokers. Focused on growth, portfolio performance, a solutions-based approach and process optimization as well as compliance with OSFI, FCAC and FINTRAC. Partner with executive leaders to deliver on the corporate vision by creating enterprise-wide energy inspiring others to the highest levels of performance to execute on the vision and goals.

Toronto, Canada Area

Reporting to the CEO, accountable for a team of 300 employees in the Canadian Residential Lending business encompassing Alternative, Prime and Reverse mortgage origination, portfolio management and retention, lending operations and servicing. Focused on growth, P&L, portfolio management, operations and servicing activities as well as compliance with OSFI, FCAC and FINTRAC. Held the Residential Lending Business Unit Compliance Officer (BUCO) position and presented quarterly to the Board of Directors’ Investment Committee. As a member of the Bank’s Commercial Lending Credit Risk Management Committee responsible for approving commercial lending aggregate credit exposures up to $50MM. • Successfully built the Bank’s industry leading $12BB Alternative mortgage business from a nascent, localized offering to a fully national presence with a full suite and range of products• Led a team that was annually awarded top status and recognition amongst leading Canadian mortgage brokers • Achieved the highest employee engagement survey scores, earning the Bank top employer in Canada ranking• Diversified the Bank’s Retail Lending business by launching a national Prime mortgage program and grew the portfolio to nearly $3.5BB in 5 years• Developed and grew alternative delivery channels of the Bank’s reverse mortgage product, further diversifying the Bank’s product suite and targeting a new segment of Canadian mortgage consumers• Led the residential lending business in meeting and exceeding volume growth targets, ROE goals and earnings objectives, consistently meeting or exceeding analysts’ expectations• Managed lending and servicing requirements, including collection and recovery activities on residential originated mortgages, third party purchased mortgages and consumer lending opportunities, overseeing a retail lending portfolio of $20BB+ with industry leading low levels of delinquency and loan losses

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reporting to the CEO and leading a team of 6 VP’s and Directors with a department of 200+ employees, responsible for the strategic direction and management of the underwriting and on-boarding (funding) processes for the Residential Mortgage business, ensuring timely processing of mortgage applications and funding activities, while maintaining an environment focused on operational controls and accuracy, service excellence and efficiency. Accountable for execution of policy, maintenance of underwriting standards and portfolio quality as well as monitoring the application volume and approving/recommending credit facilities within assigned credit limits. • Nurtured external business relationships to generate quality business/portfolio asset growth opportunities while delivering superior customer experiences• Successfully navigated the Residential Lending business through a number of challenging events resulting from the financial crisis in 2008/9, the credit challenges in Western Canada imposed by energy sector headwinds, multiple housing market swings

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Oversaw the daily operations and lending decisions of a 30+ employee credit team ensuring productivity objectives were being upheld while adhering to established policies and procedures and meeting compliance and control requirements. Monitored the residential mortgage pipeline and approved/recommended residential mortgages within assigned credit limits. Relied upon to provide real estate market expertise while guiding staff in making prudent credit decisions within corporate risk appetite limits without compromising on service or profitability.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Joining the company at the time of its IPO, with a mandate to create, build and manage a mobile residential lending sales force, responsible for developing new and nurturing existing, mortgage broker relationships to aggressively drive mortgage origination volumes and grow top-line results. Within a year, mortgage originations had more than doubled.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In this newly created role, responsible for maintaining existing and sourcing new mortgage broker relationships within specified sales regions and increasing revenues based on yearly established targets.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcomm