Anna was named Movement's Chief Fulfillment Officer in 2025. She originally joined the company in 2021 as its senior vice-president of non-agency lending. She has been instrumental in loan officer recruiting at Movement and has represented the lender nationally, speaking to real estate professionals about business growth strategies.

Anna has more than 30 years of mortgage industry experience. Prior to Movement, she spent eight years at New American Funding, opening and running their non-agency division. She also spent time at Union Bank, overseeing the private bank and purchase money division.

Anna enjoys spending time with family, wakeboarding, snow skiing, and volunteering in her community.

Aimée is a 17 year Movement Mortgage veteran, one of Movement’s first employees, joining the company in 2008. Over the course of her career, she has held leadership roles in finance, human resources, project management, and community outreach. She also launched Movement’s award-winning Thrive program, helping establish the company as a global leader in employee engagement.

Aimée studied acting and broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado (Go Buffs!) where she met her husband Trace. They raised their daughters in Charlotte - each Sydney, Riley, Zyana and Landon spending some part of their youth as Movement employees - and Riley now as a loan officer. Their family love of travel, entertaining and home improvement projects keep her busy all hours of the day.

Jake was appointed as Movement’s first-ever Chief Marketing Officer in 2023. Jake joined Movement in 2017 and previously held the roles of Vice President of Marketing, Vice President, Content & Social Strategy, and Vice President, Communications & Public Relations.

Prior to his career in the financial services industry, Jake spent four years in executive search in the life sciences, leading senior-level searches in the medical device, biotech and digital health sectors. Jake's early career was rooted in sports business, where he led international media and marketing operations for the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Baseball and the International Baseball Federation. He co-directed CoSport’s officially-licensed Beijing 2008 Olympic Games hospitality program and helped manage multi-million dollar sales programs for four USGA U.S. Open Championships.

Jake is a speaker, writer and podcaster, including the Mortgage Impact Podcast, which connects listeners to influential mortgage professionals making a difference in marketing, branding, technology, strategy and leadership. He is a frequent contributor for industry conferences and media outlets, including speaking at VaynerMedia's Agent 2021. He has served on the content advisory board for HousingWire's engage.marketing conference and was a member of the digital media company's annual Rising Star list in 2019.

On Sundays in Charlotte, you can find Jake pumping up Carolina Panthers fans as the team's in-stadium "Hype Man." He was a recipient of a Triangle Business Journal 40 Under 40 Leadership Award in 2012, and he previously served on the board of advisors for NoDa Brewing Company. Jake and his wife, Page - former host of "Good Day Charlotte" on FOX 46 and now a communications and professional development trainer - co-host the popular podcast "Date Night with Jake and Page" and co-authored the pregnancy book, "Holy Crap, We're Pregnant." Graduates of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Jake and Page live with their three children in Charlotte.

Movement’s co-founder and EVP, Toby Harris, is a driving force of the company’s leadership culture, process innovations and love for communities. In 2008, Toby joined forces with co-founder Casey Crawford to launch Movement. He brought three decades of experience to the new venture, most recently as a senior mortgage executive at National City Mortgage. Today, he’s respected as one of the driving forces behind Movement’s rapid growth as it became one of America’s 10 largest retail lenders in less than 10 years.

Toby’s influence can be seen in Movement’s 6-7-1 Process, an innovation he architected with Movement Chief Operating Officer John Third. He is also responsible for developing Movement’s servant leadership culture, taking hundreds of sales leaders under his wing over the years. He also oversees Movement’s growing joint-ventures division and continues to coach and develop leaders across the enterprise.

Toby leads Movement’s nonprofit partnership with International Cooperating Ministries, where he has overseen the construction of hundreds of churches and community centers in developing nations around the world. Toby is based in Virginia Beach, VA.

Kevin has 30+ years of sales and mortgage experience as a loan officer, manager, president, founder and executive coach. He served as president of Majestic Mortgage Corporation from 1999 until 2006 when he began coaching full-time in the industry with Building Champions. In 2011 Kevin founded his own coaching company, Making Better Happen, and in 2015 he joined Fairway Independent Mortgage to launch their internal coaching platform, Fairway Ignite, which grew to 175 coaches and over 4,000 clients served.

Kevin joined Movement in 2022 as director of coaching to help others define and achieve success, professionally and personally. In this role, Kevin leads Movement’s coaching team and will develop a best-in-class coaching platform.

Kevin is passionate about giving back to others. Aside from coaching as a profession, he’s an active mentor through his church community. Throughout his career, he has worked alongside his wife, Debbie, who also joins Kevin at Movement. Kevin and Debbie live in central Florida and enjoy golfing, traveling and spending time with their three children and five grandchildren.

Invited by friend and colleague Toby Harris to help launch a mortgage company in 2008, John Third has led the way in building Movement Mortgage into one of the industry’s most-innovative and responsive companies.

John has held a progressive career at Movement, including roles as Chief Operating Officer and Movement's first Chief Innovation Officer. During his tenure he's led mortgage operations, process innovation, human resources, compliance and more. John has been a key driver of Movement’s trademark Upfront Underwriting and 6-7-1 Process over the last two decades. He is known for his warm leadership style and embracing process innovations, and is an industry thought leader on the digital mortgage experience. John brings the experience of an originating loan officer to his role, which gives him the unique ability to understand mortgage transactions from a salesperson’s vantage point.

John is also a passionate advocate for Movement’s Love and Value culture and mission. He frequently asks how to make the employee experience more fulfilling, and he’s known for his generosity in developing nations such as India and Uganda, when he visits on trips with the Movement Foundation.

At home in Charlotte, NC, John is often immersed in real estate renovation projects or cheering on the Carolina Panthers.

Montell Watson is a seasoned mortgage industry leader and the current Vice President of Diverse Lending and Market Expansion at Movement Mortgage. With over a decade of experience and a deep commitment to equity in homeownership, Montell has become a driving force in reshaping lending strategies to better serve underserved and marginalized communities.

Over the last several years, Montell led Movement’s national diversity lending strategy, focusing on reducing homeownership disparities and increasing access to generational wealth through education and community engagement. He was instrumental in launching the Grab The Key initiative, a transformative program aimed at empowering communities of color through homeownership education and mindset shifts. Since launching GTK, Movement has helped over 47,000 Black households and funded over $13 billion in home loans.

Montell also played a pivotal role in building Movement Direct, the company’s direct-to-consumer division, where he spearheaded customer acquisition strategies and developed a servicing retention program to support retail loan officers. Under his leadership, Movement Direct has become a key driver of portfolio recapture and customer retention, targeting refinance and purchase opportunities across FHA, VA, and conventional products.

In addition, Montell leads Comunidad, Movement’s multicultural lending initiative focused on expanding homeownership within Latino communities. Through bilingual outreach, culturally relevant education, and strategic partnerships, Comunidad is helping bridge the gap for Hispanic families seeking financial empowerment and housing stability.

He also serves on the Movement School Board and launched an 8-week financial empowerment program for middle school to high school students, which has graduated over a hundred students since its inception.

A proud graduate of Elon University with a B.A. in Finance and Accounting, Montell also completed the Executive CFP Certification Program at Wake Forest University, further deepening his expertise in financial planning and services. During his time at Elon, Montell was a Division I college basketball player, an experience that shaped his leadership style through discipline, resilience, and teamwork—qualities he brings to every initiative he leads.

Montell’s journey in the mortgage industry began in 2008, during the height of the financial crisis—a moment that shaped his mission to uplift minority communities through financial literacy and homeownership. His personal experiences as a licensed advisor and loan officer fuel his passion for shifting mindsets and breaking down barriers to homeownership.

A 20+ year veteran of the finance and mortgage lending industries, Brady’s experience spans investment banking, residential retail mortgage and private mortgage lending. Shortly after launching his career at UBS in New York City, Brady returned to the Pacific Northwest to open his own brokerage, which merged with Cobalt Mortgage in 2008.

Brady is passionate about helping loan officers grow their business to serve more families and communities. He was drawn to Movement’s energy and momentum, and is excited to be a part of the Movement of Change!