We’re removing the friction and frustration from real estate transactions

Max started States Title, now Doma, in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to Doma, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.

B.A. Northwestern University

Mike is a seasoned financial veteran with 30 years of experience leading teams through IPOs, acquisitions and a variety of other major public company transitions. Prior to becoming CFO at Doma, Mike was the Chief Accounting Officer at the company building on his extensive background as a senior finance executive.

Previously, Mike served as Chief Accounting Officer and Director of Treasury at Banc of California, Inc. where he was responsible for company-wide accounting, financial planning and analysis, and tax, in addition to serving as its interim CFO during the company’s CFO transition. Mike has held several other finance leadership roles throughout his career including Chief Accounting Officer at loanDepot and CapitalSource Inc.

Andy has over 15 years of experience in bringing large datasets and scientific rigor to credit card lending, hyper real-time fraud detection, high-energy particle physics, and astrophysics. His research career began in the physical sciences, where he derived new results on galaxies, cosmology, and dark matter. The statistical techniques he utilized found a surprising application in financial services, where Andy, as Director of Data Science at Capital One Bank, created several transaction and application fraud models for credit cards. At Doma, Andy has led the deployment of the first title insurance model of its kind, which determines risk for title defects using proprietary algorithms inspired by his past experience in these diverse applications of statistics.

B.A., M.A., & Ph.D., Harvard University

As chief product officer, Jesse oversees product direction, user experience design, and the future roadmap for all business units at Doma. Previously, Jesse led Doma’s enterprise business, founding and scaling the sales organization and later overseeing sales enablement, solutions consulting, and revenue operations. Jesse joined Doma in 2017 as Chief of Staff to Doma’s CEO and founder, Max Simkoff. Prior to Doma, Jesse worked in education policy and political risk and served as a law clerk to a federal judge.

Jesse holds an AB from Harvard University and a JD from Yale Law School.

Dave is a seasoned financial services professional with nearly two decades of investing and advisory experience in both New York and London. Dave joined Doma as a general manager for special projects within the organization in late 2021. In early 2023, Dave transitioned into a role as the chief strategy officer on Doma’s executive leadership team. In this role, Dave develops and leads a wide range of transformative initiatives for the organization. Prior to joining Doma, Dave was a managing director at Barclays Bank, where he specialized in credit trading, having launched his career structuring bespoke credit transactions.

Dave holds a BA in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University and an MS in Financial Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Wendy is an expert risk and operations leader, with deep experience analyzing organizations’ key risks, building and improving processes, controls, and decision making, and leading compelling stakeholder communications. Wendy joined as the Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Doma in 2020. She is accountable for risk management, operational excellence, compliance, and audit across the spectrum of Doma’s business, including its real estate transaction risk management innovations and the company’s people, processes, and technology. Previously, she served as Vice President of Risk at Mosaic, a specialty finance company. Prior to Mosaic, Wendy held various leadership roles at Navient and Sallie Mae, consumer finance companies.

Wendy holds a BA in Economics from Wittenberg University.

Emilio Fernandez has been in the real estate industry for 25 years. Prior to joining Doma, he was a partner at the international law firm of Holland & Knight LLP, where his practice included the acquisition and sale of commercial and residential real estate, institutional and private real estate financing, commercial leasing, condominium development and title matters. During his years in private practice, Emilio routinely issued title insurance policies to clients as an agent for all major title insurance underwriters. A member of the Florida Bar, he has served on numerous committees of the American Bar Association, Florida Bar and Dade County Bar Association. Currently, he is on the Underwriter Executive Committee of the American Land Title Association and the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Services Providers Council, Inc. Emilio is very involved in his community and is a member of the Tocqueville Society of the United Way. He is based in NATIC’s corporate office in Miami.

BBA (cum laude), University of Miami

MBA, University of Miami

JD (cum laude) New York Law.

Todd is responsible for leading new strategic business lines at Doma, including areas of business strategy, sales, product marketing, and operations. Previously, he led Doma’s corporate development function, focused on mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and other corporate strategic initiatives. In prior roles as a head of corporate development at companies including TPx Communications, Verint Systems, and Neustar, Todd was responsible for leading the strategy and execution of mergers and acquisitions transactions and partnerships. Earlier in his career, Todd worked as an investment banker advising large corporate clients in technology, communications, and media sectors on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising activities.

BS, Finance, University of Florida
MS, Decision & Information Sciences, University of Florida
MBA, University of Chicago, Booth Graduate School of Business

Rebecca leads all aspects of Human Resources at Doma. In this role, she is responsible for developing and delivering the human capital strategy, policies, and processes that promote an inclusive and collaborative work environment with scalable solutions, and talent initiatives that enable exceptional business outcomes.

Prior to joining Doma, Rebecca served as the global leader of Employee Relations at PayPal. During her expatriate assignment in Ireland, she redesigned and transformed the delivery of HR Shared Services across operations centers in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific regions. Rebecca is passionate about employee advocacy and served on the executive steering committee for diversity, equity & inclusion, and played a key fiduciary role for PayPal’s global employee relief fund. In a career that includes more than 25 years of experience in Human Resources, she has also held leadership roles at other Fortune 500 companies including eBay, 3Com and AT&T.

Rebecca holds a B.A. in International Business from Westminster University.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers is one of America’s leading economists. In addition to serving as 71st Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as Director of the White House National Economic Council in the Obama Administration, as President of Harvard University, and as the Chief Economist of the World Bank. His tenure at the U.S. Treasury coincided with the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history and he is the only Treasury Secretary in the last half century to have left office with the national budget in surplus. Currently, Dr. Summers is the President Emeritus and the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University.

Read his press release: States Title names Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers to Board of Directors

Matthew E. Zames is President and Senior Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management. Mr. Zames joined Cerberus in 2018. As President, Mr. Zames has broad responsibilities across the firm’s global platform and leads a number of operational and strategic initiatives, including overseeing all investments in the financial services industry, growing the understanding and use of technology, data, and AI in investment activities and at the firm’s portfolio companies, and helping the firm identify and capitalize on new investment strategies.

Mr. Zames was most recently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and a member of the Operating Committee of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from 2012 to 2017. In his role as COO, his responsibilities included the firm’s Chief Investment Officer (CIO), the Oversight and Control Group, Treasury & Funding, Mortgage Banking Capital Markets, Compliance, One Equity Partners, Corporate Strategy, Regulatory Affairs, Global Technology and Operations, Global Real Estate, Procurement, Security & Safety, General Services, and Military & Veteran Affairs. Mr. Zames was co-COO from July 2012 until April 2013 when he assumed the full COO position. Previously, he was CIO of JPMorgan Chase.

Prior to 2012, Mr. Zames held a series of senior roles in the firm’s Investment Bank. He was co-head of Global Fixed Income for J.P. Morgan’s Investment Bank and head of Chase’s Mortgage Banking Capital Markets. Before that, he managed several leading Markets businesses, including Rates, Foreign Exchange, Public Finance, Securitized Products Group, and the Tax Exempt Capital Markets business. Before joining J.P. Morgan in 2004, Mr. Zames worked at Credit Suisse, where he was co-head of Global Dollar Interest Rate Trading, a member of the Fixed Income Operating Committee, and the Credit Suisse First Boston Management Council.

Mr. Zames is a former member and chairman of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee and a former member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Treasury Market Practices Group. He is currently a member of The Economic Club of NY and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Zames also serves on the MIT Sloan Finance Group Advisory Board, the Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the Board of Directors of the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, the Board of Directors of Guiding Eyes for the Blind and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families Advisory Board at Syracuse University. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and children.

Stuart Miller is Executive Chairman of Lennar Corporation, (NYSE:LEN) one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. He is also a member of Lennar’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Miller joined Lennar after graduating from the University of Miami Law School in 1982, serving in various capacities for the Company’s Homebuilding Division and former Investment and Commercial Properties Division. From 1991 to October 1997, Mr. Miller was the President of both of these business segments and the primary force behind their growth and success during that time. He became CEO of Lennar in April 1997 until he assumed his current role as Executive Chairman in April 2018.

On October 31, 1997, Lennar Corporation spun off its commercial real estate investment, financial, and management activities into LNR Property Corporation, which company became separately listed on the NYSE. Mr. Miller served as Chairman of the Board of LNR until the sale of LNR in February, 2005.

In March 2000, Mr. Miller joined the Board of Directors of Builder Homesite, Inc., a consortium of homebuilders nationwide who represented $46 billion in gross revenue for 2001 and built over 203,000 homes in 340 communities across the continental United States. He is a founding Board Member of the Leading Builders of America and a member of the Business Roundtable.

Mr. Miller also serves personally on various professional and community boards and committees including FivePoint Holdings and Doma Board of Directors. He is the past Chairman of the Joint Center for Housing Studies Policy Advisory Board at Harvard University. Mr. Miller is past Chairman and current Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami and Chairman of the UHealth Board of Directors. Mr. Miller served as director of the Alonzo Mourning Charities and director of The Overtown Youth Center. He was Chairman of the 2013 Dolphins Cycling Challenge benefitting the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and is the Co-Chairman of the Miami Dolphins Foundation.

He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University.

Currently Chief Financial Officer at Annaly Capital Management, Inc., a leading diversified capital manager in the mortgage REIT sector, Ms. Wolfe previously held a variety of roles across industries during her 22-year career at Ernst & Young LLP (EY), including as Partner and serving as Global RHC Assurance Leader and U.S. Central Region Real Estate Hospitality & Construction (RHC) leader. EY’s RHC practice has the largest integrated real estate practice of any global accounting organization. Ms. Wolfe is a Certified Public Accountant in California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Max started States Title, now Doma, in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to Doma, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.

B.A. Northwestern University

Charles Moldow is a general partner at Foundation Capital. Charles builds companies that change markets. He’s always on the lookout for startups working on the next generation of fintech, marketplaces, SaaS, and consumer tech solutions and services. Charles’ current portfolio includes AdRoll, auxmoney, BlockCypher, Finxera (formerly Bancbox), HealthIQ, LendingClub (IPO 2014), LendingHome, Motif Investing, OnDeck Capital (IPO 2014), Rappi, Doma, and Branch. Since he joined Foundation Capital in 2005, three of his investments have gone public and six have been acquired. A former entrepreneur himself, Charles is the author of the widely cited whitepaper, A Trillion Dollar Market By the People, For the People: How Marketplace Lending Will Remake Banking As We Know It.

Ms. Williams is the Chief Diversity Officer at Meta, where she focuses on developing strategies for the integration of diverse perspectives and experiences into the building of products, development of policies, and creation of programming to fulfill Meta’s mission of making the world more connected. Maxine is a member of Meta’s leadership team and reports directly to the COO. She also serves as a director on the board and member of the Governance, Nomination, and Remuneration Committee of the Massy Group, an investment holding / management company with three main investment portfolios: Integrated Retail, Gas Products, and Motors & Machines. The Group employs over 12,000 people in nearly 60 companies across the Caribbean and Latin American region.