Gateway Mortgage Group, a privately held mortgage company offering originations, servicing and correspondent lending, announced the hiring of Barbara Burton as new regional sales manager. She will serve the existing and prospective clients in Southern California and Arizona.

Burton has over 15 years of experience in correspondent sales; prior to joining Gateway, she has worked with several national Mortgage Banks and Correspondent Investors – JP Morgan Chase, Macquarie USA, Impac Mortgage and Ditech Financial. During her career, she has gained extensive experience in the correspondent lending space which has contributed to her success in understanding and meeting a wide array of client needs and challenges.

“Our Correspondent Lending Division is continuing to grow as we add more passionate, dedicated regional sales managers,” said Jared Edmonds, vice president of national production for the correspondent lending division at Gateway Mortgage Group. “Barbara’s decade and a half in the business has shown she is uniquely adept at building new territories and creating impressive professional relationships. We are excited for Barbara to lead our division into new markets in the Southwest.”

“Our team has experienced terrific growth in 2016,” said Scott Henley, Chief Production Officer at Gateway. “Gateway looks forward to expanding its client base further in the upcoming year, and we believe Barbara’s mix of expertise and commitment will help us achieve and surpass our goals.”

Gateway’s Correspondent Lending Division, an arm of one of the largest privately held mortgage bankers in the country, offers a wide array of programs, competitive pricing and a unique alternative to the correspondent channel for small and mid-sized financial institutions; as well as independent mortgage companies.

About Gateway Mortgage Group, LLC

Founded in 2000, Tulsa, Okla.-based Gateway Mortgage Group LLC is a complete end-to-end mortgage banking firm that specializes in originations, servicing, and correspondent lending. The company services over $11 billion in residential mortgages. For more information about Gateway, visit www.GatewayCorrespondent.com.