Groen takes over the role from Jennifer Rowen, who was promoted to senior vice president, core operations. Rowen will oversee several Cenlar functions, including investor reporting, bank operations, payoffs, and insurance, escrow, tax and transfer operations. With the company since 2016, Rowen previously held compliance management roles at The Bryn Mawr Trust Co. and Continental Bank.
The Ewing, New Jersey-based company also recently named intelligence expert Theodore Mugnier director of information security. A former U.S. Marine Corps officer, Mugnier will work with Cenlar’s cybersecurity team to evaluate risks, ensure compliance and support cyber engineering functions. Previously, he held several cyber security and intelligence roles within the Marines, including with the Cybersecurity Intelligence Directorate at Y-12 National Security Complex, U.S. Special Operations Command, the Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command and U.S. Cyberspace Command.
Cenlar also hired Michael Biddle as chief data scientist to lead its mortgage information factory, a newly created initiative. The effort will leverage Cenlar’s wealth of available data to provide insights that inform company operations and also serve client needs. Tasked to lead data science operations in the newly created role, Biddle will be in charge of information procurement and gathering, reporting and artificial intelligence utilization.
