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Dan leads the Americas Consumer Lending practice. He works extensively with banks, wealth managers and other lenders to develop and implement growth strategies, improve customer experience, modernize technology solutions, drive efficiency and manage risk.
With more than 25 years of experience, Dan has a demonstrated ability to lead and support strategic transformational business and technology projects across mortgage and consumer lending products for top-tier US banks and wealth management firms.
Dan earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University.
How Dan is building a better working world
The financial services industry is seeing a tremendous amount of change as the pace of technology, innovation and evolving customer expectations continues to accelerate. Through connected ecosystems, integrated systems, automation and effective use of data, the customer experience is being transformed from a lengthy and paper-intensive process to a seamless, personalized, digitized customer experience that offers equal access to credit. Enabling our clients to realize this transformation results in improved experiences for customers and faster access to credit.
Dan's latest thinking
Why mortgage lenders should invest in home equity offerings
Mortgage lenders who invest strategically and adopt digital capabilities will capitalize on the growing demand for home equity lending. Learn more.
06 Feb 2025
Dan Thain
How pursuing GenAI can transform mortgage lending
By applying GenAI innovations across the lifecycle, mortgage lenders can gain a strategic advantage. Learn more.
03 Jun 2024
Sameer Gupta
How can financial institutions modernize their fair-lending practices?
FIs that disregard fair banking are lagging behind FIs that enhance compliance procedures, lending models and data analytics to become more compliant. Read more.
21 Dec 2023
Dan Thain
Modernize your mortgage lending platform
Banks that undergo lending platform modernization can provide customers mobile-accessed, data-driven, digital, holistic mortgage borrowing experiences. Read more.
07 Dec 2023
Dan Thain
Evaluating servicing models in the face of industry headwinds
Mortgage servicers re-evaluate their operating models, including in-house servicing, subservicing and hybrid or component servicing. Read more.
10 Jan 2023
Dan Thain
Which consumer lending strategies can FIs use to drive growth?
Financial institutions (FIs) are moving from single P&L-centric lending models to holistic ecosystem strategies centered on customer needs.
29 Jun 2022
Dan Thain
Mortgage lending reaches an inflection point
Know more about how mortgage lenders’ need to harness their data and leverage innovative technologies to deliver an efficient and personalized home buying experience.
30 Nov 2021
Dan Thain