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Management Team

 

Carmine Cacciavillani

Director, Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM Company
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Carmine has over 30 years experience developing and implementing software-based mortgage business solutions for top lenders. In 1980, he founded Input Creations, Inc. Under his leadership, the company successfully created and marketed a windows-based Client/Server Mortgage Loan Processing System. The company was sold in 1996 to a competitor. In 1999, he founded Palisades Technology Partners, LLC. In November 2006, Palisades was acquired by IBM, to deliver ever more unique value to the lending industry. Carmine continues as the executive in charge of IBM/Palisades, the now wholly owned subsidiary.

David Aach Chief Operating Officer, Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM Company Read more
David joined Palisades in 2003 and has focused on direct sales and strategies to support Palisades continued growth. He has over 30 years of mortgage technology and sales experience. Prior to joining IBM/Palisades , he served as national sales manager for John Harland Financial Solutions, and strategic account manager for Corillian. In his position at Harland, Aach generated mortgage origination systems sales to more than 30 leading banks and mortgage companies, including Citicorp, GMAC, and Nations Bank. While at Corillian, he earned over $13 million in sales for the company. Aach also served as vice president of mortgage systems for Citicorp Mortgage, where he was instrumental in rolling out the first loan origination system to use laser printed mortgage documents.

Steve Octaviano Chief Technology Officer, Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM Company Read more
Steve has been working with Carmine Cacciavillani for over 20 years designing and developing systems for the Mortgage industry. In the late 80's Steve was a major contributor to several custom LOS applications including the LaserPro Mortgage product, a fully comprehensive Loan Origination System which is still in use at several Fortune 500 organizations. During the 90's Steve focused on the technology side of development within such areas as object oriented design, multi-tier architectures, and business components. He developed most of the internal building blocks for various other LOS systems and lead the company's Architecture Group. Upon joining Palisades in 1999, Steve became responsible for implementing the industry's first true browser based POS/LOS system presently running at Ditech.com. Today, as CTO, Steve is focused on delivering IBM/Palisades's vision for a Services Oriented Architecture and fully integrated end-to-end solutions, providing complex mortgage organizations the ability to upgrade their functional enterprise in a more cost effective manner.

John Buscema Manager, Mortgage Operations, Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM Company Read more
John joined Palisades in 2002, and provides strategy, oversight and planning for the Mortgage Practice. Specifically, John has been instrumental in creating the core pieces of our Services Oriented Architecture approach to the industry. In 1982, John joined Morbank Systems, Inc., where he built mortgage servicing modules and a distributed loan origination/ inventory control system. During his tenure, he grew the business to over 20 customers, with the largest client originating in excess of $2B annually.From 1995 to 2000, he served as EVP, Development/ IT for Mortgage.com, where he was the principal architect of CLOser, their mortgage banking solution and managed a staff of over 100 professionals. In 2000, he returned to Morbank Systems, Inc. as President. While there, he was engaged by a mortgage software solution provider to design their Product Pricing engine, and managed the Retail Mortgage Web Initiative of a federally chartered bank. Today John heads up product delivery and innovation to assure IBM is best positioned to drive new solutions to market.

Mario DiBenedetto Manager, Engagement and Operations, Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM Company Read more
Mario joined Palisades in 2001 as the VP of Quality Assurance and Operations. Mario has over 20 years experience in project and operations management as well as the design and development of complex mission critical applications. Prior to joining Palisades, Mario was COO of software consulting firm Blueflame where he helped grow the organization from 8 to 250+ employees over a 10 year period. Prior to Blueflame, Mario worked at Relational Strategies and Andersen Consulting. Mario holds a BS in Industrial Management from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Today Mario leads a team of 20 professionals to deliver key solutions to Wachovia Bank.

Rob Strickland Leader, Sales/Marketing, Palisades Technology Partners, an IBM Company Read more
In charge of Sales and Business Development, Rob uses his diverse background to develop new business models and distribution channels for IBM/Palisades's software solutions to continually grow the business. A veteran entrepreneur with significant experience managing high growth companies, Strickland brings 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development to his role at IBM/Palisades. Prior to joining IBM/Palisades, Rob was a Director of Sales for the application development firm, Blueflame where he developed and executed sales/marketing plans that helped the company grow 100% over a two year period. Rob was successful at developing profitable relationships with Merrill Lynch, CSFB, Scholastic and HW Wilson to name a few. Strickland has also worked for AT&T Global Accounts, Grey Advertising and Young & Rubicam.

Mortgage business thought leadership combined with exceptional technical skill allows IBM/Palisades to consistently deliver high performing software solutions.

   
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