Meeting of the Titans

Jackson Middleton • April 9, 2018

As you may already know (if you’ve spent any time on our blog, or if you’ve noticed that fancy badge we keep updating every year) that CME is the number one franchise with Dominion Lending Centres in Canada. It’s been that way for the last 6 years. Well, in order to command that kind of volume, we rely on a few key individuals, to us, they are known as titans.

A quick Googling of “titan” will show you that a titan is an extremely important person, someone who is powerful and influential in a certain field. Einstein was a titan in the world of science, and these following individuals are titans in the world of mortgages. Congrats to the following CME brokers for their huge success in 2017. Here is the complete list of titans with some of the pictures from our awards night below.

Total Mortgage Volume

We have the following 10 individuals making the cut.

Chad Oyhenart
Dustan Woodhouse
Christian Amurao
Cory Larkin
Lori Watson
Lisa Manwarring
Alex McFadyen
Mike Lloyd
Joel Olson
Gary Grewal

Total Mortgage Units Written

These are our top ten titans (say that 3 times fast).

Christian Amurao
Chad Oyhenart
Cory Larkin
Joel Olson
Dustan Woodhouse
Lori Watson
Alex McFadyen
Lisa Manwarring
Mike Lloyd
Jewels Ferris

Congrats to all our titan award winners.

Photo Gallery

Because a Picture is worth 1,000 Words or something like that!

First up, we’ve got Alex McFadyen – from the Mortgage Pug fame. You can find him on the interwebs here: http://www.alexmcfadyen.com/

Chad Oyhenart is not only an integral part of the management team at CME, he’s a top producing broker.

Christine Buemann is quickly becoming known in the industry as someone who cares a whole lot, and encourages others to be better at what they do! You can find her online here: http://christinebuemann.ca/

Mike Lloyd and his HomeHappy team, just look at all those smiles. No doubt some of the best in the industry in this picture. Find their online home here https://homehappy.ca/

Jewels Ferris – here we go! Well on her way to writing $100 MILLION in mortgage volume (that’s a whole lot) – congrats to Jewels and her team.

Christian Amurao, Anthony, and Aziel (not pictured) make up the Open Doors Mortgage Team. These guys are doing a great job helping families achieve home ownership. The proof is in the numbers, they write a lot of business!

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