Sprout Mortgage CEO and leadership

Michael Strauss is the Founder & CEO of Sprout Mortgage & he attended Washington University in St. Louis.

Gregory Walker is a General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Sprout Mortgage and is based in East Meadow, New York. He has worked as Senior Credit Analyst at Moody s Investors Service; General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary at Towne Mortgage Company; and Managing Director and Counsel at UBS. Gregory attended Fordham University School of Law between 1985 and 1988 and Georgetown University between 1976 and 1979.

Grant Allison is a Chief Technology Officer at Sprout Mortgage. He leads global implementation and support services, providing executive direction, strategy, management, and leadership in the fulfillment of IT objectives. Mr. Allison is a former IT Security Officer at Conway Bank and CTO at Recovco Mortgage Management. Grant graduated from Pittsburg State University with a bachelor of science in Mathematics and received an MBA in IT Management at Capella University.

I’ve always had a passion for technology and wrote my first program at the age of 9. I have an entrepreneurial spirit and co-founded a few startups along the way irfu.com the internet’s first radio station, iQualify.com joint recipient of the 1998 Smithsonian Award for Innovation in Real Estate, Finance, and Insurance and JustLabor.com a home services company.



My primary focus for the last 26 years has been mortgage origination, servicing and asset management. At the age of 19, I wrote my first loan origination platform and then a servicing platform; luckily I did not know any better. Henry Ford’s quote has always resonated with me “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right”.



Since then I’ve been very fortunate to work with incredible people and companies on quite a few amazing endeavors.

Nick Imbimbo is an EVP, Chief Operations Officer at Sprout Mortgage and is based in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. He has worked as SVP National Fulfillment at FIRST GUARANTY MORTGAGE CORPORATION; VP National Operations Manager, Correspondent Lending at Bank of Oklahoma; and Underwriting Credit Standards III at Fannie Mae. Nick studied at University of Phoenix between 2012 and 2013 and University of Phoenix between 2012 and 2014.

Shea Pallante is a President at Sprout Mortgage and Chief Production Officer at Sprout Mortgage and is based in Irvine, California. She has worked as EVP at Sprout Mortgage; Vice President, Portfolio Management at Bsi Financial Services; and Asset Manager at Kondaur Capital Corporation. Shea studied at Penn State University between 1999 and 2003.

Michael Strauss is the Founder & CEO of Sprout Mortgage & he attended Washington University in St. Louis.