Management:
Contact MBI Financial's senior management team via email or by calling our headquarters at 214/468-0000.
Patrick A. McGeeney - Chief Executive Officer & Board Member
patrickm@mbifinancial.com
John M. Farkas - President, MBI Mortgage
john@mbimortgage.com
Bob Currier – Chief Financial Officer
robertc@mbifinancial.com
Greg Block – Executive Vice President & CIO
greg@mbimortgage.com
Paul Bennett – Vice President, Corporate Development
paul@mbimortgage.com
William Marshall – Director of Sales
Eric Conner – Vice President, Sales & Marketing
eric@mbimortgage.com
Seamus Donohoe – Director of Sales
seamus@mbimortgage.com
Larry Weisinger – Director of Sales
larry@mbimortgage.com
Patrick A. McGeeney - Chief Executive Officer & Board Member
patrickm@mbifinancial.com
Patrick A. McGeeney is the chief executive officer, founder, and a board member of MBI. Throughout his career, McGeeney has held senior executive positions in the real estate industry, shepherding companies from concept into multi-state mortgage and real estate operations. Prior to founding MBI, he served as CEO of Availent Financial, the parent company of Availent Mortgage, and as COO for Realtec Real Estate Corporation. McGeeney also worked in the special bank marketing division of Young and Rubicam, where he developed targeted marketing and branding programs aimed at reaching consumer audiences. He is particularly knowledgeable on selling to the Hispanic market. McGeeney graduated from Southern Methodist University and attended graduate school at Our Lady of the Lake University . He sits on the Board of Directors of Home Solutions of America, Inc. (AMEX: HOM) and serves on the Associate Board of the SMU Cox School of Business.
John M. Farkas - President, MBI Mortgage
john@mbimortgage.com
John M. Farkas, the President of MBI Mortgage Inc., is a 25-year mortgage banking industry veteran with a national reputation for overseeing clean and profitable lines with his warehouse lenders. Farkas has spent 20 years of his career in senior management positions at leading companies in the industry, including Household Bank, Crest Savings and Loans, Loan America Financial Corp., and First Home Mortgage. Most recently he has been consulting with small- and medium-sized mortgage brokerage companies, helping them transform into efficient and profitable businesses.
Bob Currier – Chief Financial Officer, MBI Financial Inc.
Bob Currier is a CPA and has 35 years of experience both in the public accounting and corporate sectors. Since 1987, Mr. Currier has been involved with entrepreneurial ventures in industries ranging from medical to real estate to oil and gas. With these companies, he has been responsible for developing financial reporting systems, helping raise capital, implementing internal controls and budget preparation. His experience has included both public and private entrepreneurial companies. He has also worked on SEC reporting engagements on a contract basis.
Mr. Currier started his professional career in 1971 with the audit staff at Ernst & Ernst in Kansas City. After six years, he transferred to the Paris, France office where he spent six years working on the audit of the French national oil company (Elf Aquitaine) and U. S. companies such as Eli Lilly and Harris Corporation. From Paris he moved to the Dallas office and transitioned from oil and gas auditing to entrepreneurial services and was named the Vice Chairman of the entrepreneurial services group. Mr. Currier’s experience with the entrepreneurial services group included working with business plans and financial projections for various start-up companies.
Greg Block – Executive Vice President & CIO
greg@mbimortgage.com
Greg Block has 20 years of experience in operations, logistics, customer service and process improvement. Prior to joining MBI Mortgage Block was the Chief Operating Officer at Northland Funding Group, a mortgage banker and broker in Austin, Texas. He has also held senior management positions at Point One Telecommunications, Century Tel Telecommunications, IPC Technologies, and Dell Computer. While at Dell Computer, Block developed the infrastructure and processes for the creation of Dell Ware, the software and peripherals division of Dell Computer. He also served as Managing Crew Chief in the United States Air Force for five years.
Paul Bennett, CPA – Vice President, Corporate Development
paul@mbimortgage.com
Paul Bennett has 40 years of experience in financial management for public, private and going-public entities. Prior to joining MBI Financial, he spent many years as an independent financial consultant helping small- and medium-sized companies grow their businesses. He has participated in over 50 transactions involving the purchase and sale of public and private businesses, handling everything from target identification, valuation and due diligence, to initial public offerings, M&A negotiations and post-acquisition integration issues. He is particularly adept at assisting companies working through post-partum public issues – i.e., Section 16, compliance, stock options tracking, acquisition accounting and tax administration, and deal structuring and analysis. Bennett began his career handling corporate tax matters for an entity that is now known as Deloitte & Touche. He left Deloitte to join Cerro Corp., a NYSE- listed company, where he eventually became the Chief Financial Officer. In 1975, Bennett left Cerro Corp. and purchased a Dallas-based manufacturing concern, which he grew and managed successfully for 10 years, ultimately selling the business to pursue his financial consulting practice.
William Marshall – Director of Sales
William Marshall is a 15 year veteran of the mortgage industry after attending Michigan State University. His career began in 1992 at Homestead Mortgage in Southfield, MI, now Guaranty Bank, under the tutelage of Warren Carr, one of the most prominent mortgage bankers in the state of Michigan. After working at Great Lakes Bancorp and First Alliance Mortgage, William formed Home Team Mortgage in Dallas, TX. Home Team was the first mortgage company to begin funding Texas Home Equity loans after the constitution was amended on Nov 11, 1997. Between 2002 and 2005, Marshall grew his business from 60mm annually to 350mm annually prior to joining MBI and were listed as the 24th largest mortgage company in Dallas-Fort Worth according to the 2006 Dallas Business Journal Book of Lists.
Eric C. Conner – Vice President, Sales & Marketing
eric@mbimortgage.com
Eric Conner has spent 14 years in a variety of service management positions in the mortgage banking industry. Before joining the MBI Financial team, he owned and operated a mortgage brokerage firm. Conner's expertise lies in originating conventional, conforming and non- conforming FHA and VA loans, as well as in marketing, account development and loan officer training. He attended Southwest Texas State University , where he studied finance and marketing.
Seamus Donohoe – Director of Sales
seamus@mbimortgage.com
Seamus Donohoe was the owner of NAME OF CO, a mortgage brokerage firm acquired by MBI Mortgage in DATE. Throughout his eight years in the mortgage brokerage industry, Donohoe has proven himself to be an effective sales person and strong team leader. For example, within his first year of business, Donohoe successfully closed $1 million in production, and has increased his loan production volume every year since. He has also groomed many loan officers to be successful as well.
Larry D. Weisinger – Director of Sales
larry@mbimortgage.com
Larry Weisinger was the owner of NAME OF CO, a mortgage brokerage firm acquired by MBI Mortgage in DATE. With a decade of experience in the mortgage industry, Weisinger began his career as a loan officer and quickly achieved recognition as an effective sales leader. He has experience training sales professionals to become top producers.
