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2019 HW Tech Trendsetter: Alpana Kapoor

Senior Director of Engineering, Ellie Mae

Alpana Kapoor, Ellie Mae senior director of engineering

Ellie Mae calls Alpana Kapoor the “leading woman” behind the company’s Encompass digital lending platform, its solution that currently processes 30% of the total residential mortgages in the U.S. Kapoor led the delivery of several compliance updates like CFPB and HMDA in the last year alone.

In addition to that, Kapoor also helped achieve an additional 15% to 20% performance improvements on Encompass key performance indicator in the last year. Kapoor’s achievements also helped double the number of active Encompass users in the last four years to 200,000. Through Encompass, Kapoor and her team helped Ellie Mae’s customers save an average of $970 per loan and close loans seven days faster than average, equating to an average of 697% return on investment over a five-year period. Kapoor also helped grow Ellie Mae’s market share from 34% to 38% over the past few years.

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