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Elevate 2026: Day 1 Panel Takeaways
By Uriel Fleicher, Co-Founder & Editor in Chief at The Elite OfficerMarch 5, 20264 min read
In our previous article, Elevate 2026: Where Limits Feel Smaller, we explored the powerful energy James Lawrence brought to the stage. Now, we turn to the rest of the conversations and panels from Day 1 of Elevate 2026, where industry leaders shared practical insights on strategy, growth, and the evolving landscape of private lending.
Valerie Saunders, Chief Executive Strategist at NAMB, and Kendra Rommel, Principal and Co-Founder at FUTURES Financial, opened the conversation by highlighting a reality that many in the room immediately recognized: in mortgage and private lending, we often use the same terminology while operating in completely different regulatory and structural worlds.
From forward mortgages to bridge loans, DSCR products, business-purpose lending, and consumer-purpose transactions, the panel made it clear that vocabulary in our industry is not interchangeable. What sounds identical in conversation can carry dramatically different compliance obligations depending on licensing requirements, foreclosure frameworks, and whether the transaction is borrower-credit driven or asset-based.
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Co-Founder & Editor in Chief at The Elite Officer
Uriel Fleicher is the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of The Elite Officer. Originally from Argentina, Uriel is an attorney with a strong academic background, holding a Master’s degree in Business Law and currently pursuing an MBA. Today, through The Elite Officer, his mission is to educate, empower, and connect loan officers, lenders, service providers, and real estate investors while creating meaningful visibility for the people driving the industry forward.
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