Assist with content for educational offerings such as webinars, iGuides, and publicly distributed materials a focus on compliance and collateral risk.
Meet The Chairs
Assist with content for educational offerings such as webinars, iGuides, and publicly distributed materials a focus on compliance and collateral risk.
CHAIR
As a Certified Residential Appraiser for over 25 years, Wade Coffey serves as the Consumer Chief Appraiser of Bank of America representing the bank’s interest in the industry and to navigate and promote positive change. He oversees a team of experienced appraisers and analysts managing the Bank’s staff appraisers, Appraisal Independence Program, complaint resolution, and appraisal escalations. Wade’s experience has also included the independent oversight of compliance with appraisal regulations incorporated within bank policies and standards, monitoring the performance and compliance of Automated Valuation Models (AVM) model performance, as well as the rules engine for bank’s proprietary collateral risk tool evaluating appraisal risk for compliance and credibility.
VICE-CHAIR
Jessica Jenkins-Tome’ is Chief Appraiser for Opteon. With 20 years in valuations, Jessica enjoys the daily challenges of working with complex property appraisals, collaboration with industry leaders, and likes tackling projects that focus on quality and efficiencies. By trade, Jessica is a Certified Residential Appraiser, with the highlights of her career in valuations being her experience in collateral risk, specialization in portfolio lending, and opportunity to support training initiatives. Before joining Opteon, she held positions in collateral risk at Valuation Connect, Citibank and Homepoint and began working with appraisal panels and product specialization in 2016.