Michael Saccento

Senior Principal Product Manager at ICE at Ice

Speaker

Michael Saccento is a Senior Principal Product Manager at ICE in the Mortgage Data & Analytics group. As a product leader, Michael’s focus is making data accessible, connected, and at the center of our client’s daily business decisions.

With over 20 years of experience in mortgage, real estate, and capital markets, Michael’s background prior to joining ICE includes time spent in consumer finance products, asset-based lending, servicing, risk management, whole loan trading, and securitization. This exposure to the full loan-lifecycle and the inefficiencies he observed ultimately drove him to pivot his career and begin a journey towards building financial technology products in housing finance.

Michael holds a B.B.A. with a concentration in Corporate Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He currently resides with his family in San Jose, CA.

Proposed speaking topics:

•Technology Strategy – how to level up your technology strategy to stay competitive in the market. The components and considerations for supporting your data science lifecycle. When does AI/ML make sense as an approach, when does it not. •Home affordability – rising insurance, property tax, utility, and maintenance costs and the major strain on home affordability. Home equity release products and trends – hands on experience in home equity lead gen, origination, portfolio management, collateral valuation policy, trading, securitization and servicing