Sagent hires two execs to drive market share and Dara growth
In
a
move
to
grow
market
share
for
its
mortgage
software
platform,
Sagent
on
Thursday
announced
the
appointment
of
Art
Calhoun
as
vice
president
of
strategic
partnerships
and
Kim
Warnica
as
vice
president
of
product
marketing.
“As
we
accelerate
our
phased
rollout
of
Dara
by
Sagent
in
2025,
we
need
top
talent
to
articulate
Dara’s
value
and
integrate
all
the
best
partners
into
our
Dara
servicing
systems
of
record,”
Sagent
CEO
Geno
Paluso
said
in
a
statement.
“That’s
what
Art
Calhoun
and
Kim
Warnica
are
here
to
help
us
do.
Dara
by
Sagent’s
real-time
data,
unified
UX
for
servicers
and
consumers,
and
open
ecosystem
across
core,
default,
and
consumer
mortgage
servicing
powers
America’s
top
servicers,
and
is
the
industry’s
only
modern
end-to-end
servicing
platform
that
can
handle
every
servicing
scenario
at
the
largest
scale.”
Calhoun
joins
Sagent
from
Wells
Fargo,
where
he
served
as
executive
director
of
vendor
oversight,
supervising
vendor
operations
in
mortgage
servicing
—
including
scorecards,
contracts,
spend
management
and
risk
assessments.
At
Sagent,
Calhoun
will
lead
the
partner
program,
ensuring
that
technology
partner
integrations
match
what
customers
need.
His
work
will
support
Dara’s
vision
of
an
open
ecosystem,
where
servicers
can
connect
all
their
preferred
vendors
directly
into
Sagent’s
core
systems.
Warnica
joins
Sagent
after
senior
product
marketing
roles
at
New
American
Funding,
Homepoint
and
Rocket
Mortgage.
Her
new
role
will
involve
overseeing
product
marketing
across
Dara’s
core,
default
and
consumer
mortgage
servicing
platforms.
Calhoun
and
Warnica
will
report
to
Perry
Hilzendeger,
Sagent’s
executive
vice
president
of
strategic
growth,
who
oversees
all
strategic
growth,
customer
success
and
customer
implementation
teams.
