Anchor Loans Leadership

Thompson brings more than 20 years of finance and operations experience to Anchor, with significant time spent in leadership roles with mortgage firms. His areas of expertise include analyzing projections, creating annual budgets, raising capital and creating robust financial modeling.

Prior to joining Anchor Loans, Thompson served as CFO for Luxury Mortgage Corp. While there, he was responsible for all aspects of financial reporting, including internal management reporting as well as compliance reporting to banks, investors and regulators.

A native Californian, Thompson lives in Chatsworth with his wife, Patti. They have four children and three grandchildren. Thompson volunteers as the CFO for the Forever Fund, an organization devoted to rescuing and caring for victims of human trafficking, and works with the youth in his church in his spare time.

Bill Kontgis is a Senior VP/CIO at Digital Insight and Chief Technology Officer at Anchor Loans LP. He has experience at FIRST NATIONWIDE BANK and California Federal Bank Fsb and has worked as Vice President at Digital Insight, Exec VP/CIO at Countrywide Bank National Association, and Chief Information Officer at Think Finance. Bill attended University of Utah.

Erik brings more than 20 years of IT experience to Anchor, with over 15 years spent in leadership roles with retail and finance firms. His areas of expertise include IT Operations, Architecture, Data and Analytics.

Prior to joining Anchor Loans, Erik served as Director of EIM and Data Services at Think Finance and Director of Data and Analytics at Gamestop Inc. While there, he was responsible for all aspects of Data Management, Implementing Enterprise Information Management systems and pivotal in obtaining compliance certifications.

Erik graduated from Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario with a degree in Human Resources and a degree in Information systems.

A dual citizen with Canada, Erik recently relocated from Tampa to California with his wife, Norine. They enjoy traveling and cruising whenever possible and spending time with family and friends.

Entrepreneurial Executive with a Proven Record of Leadership and Building New Business

My professional accomplishments include:

• Senior management role at a $1.5B operating/ investment company as head of capital markets and business development

• As an investment banker I led the execution of over 200 securitizations and financings, raising more than $100B

• Increased the borrowing capacity of our company by 4x, enabling the significant growth of our businesses while simultaneously saving more than $25MM annually

• Started a mortgage loan originator which has written more than $150MM of loans and is our fastest growing, highest potential business line

• Responsible for the management of a $2B distressed loan portfolio; achieved repayment in full

• Started a successful consulting firm and built its client base to $6B

Areas of expertise:

Strategy and Business Development • Capital Markets • Management of Complex Transactions • Entrepreneurship • Revenue Generation • Team Leadership • Structuring and Negotiation • Analytics • Financing Facilities • Securitization • Financial Services Companies • Mortgages • Distressed Situations