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In a move to grow market share for its mortgage software platform, Sagent on Thursday announced the appointment of Art Calhoun as vice president of strategic partnerships and Kim Warnica as vice president of product marketing.
“As we accelerate our phased rollout of Dara by Sagent in 2025, we need top talent to articulate Dara’s value and integrate all the best partners into our Dara servicing systems of record,” Sagent CEO Geno Paluso said in a statement.
“That’s what Art Calhoun and Kim Warnica are here to help us do. Dara by Sagent’s real-time data, unified UX for servicers and consumers, and open ecosystem across core, default, and consumer mortgage servicing powers America’s top servicers, and is the industry’s only modern end-to-end servicing platform that can handle every servicing scenario at the largest scale.”
Calhoun joins Sagent from Wells Fargo, where he served as executive director of vendor oversight, supervising vendor operations in mortgage servicing — including scorecards, contracts, spend management and risk assessments.
At Sagent, Calhoun will lead the partner program, ensuring that technology partner integrations match what customers need. His work will support Dara’s vision of an open ecosystem, where servicers can connect all their preferred vendors directly into Sagent’s core systems.
Warnica joins Sagent after senior product marketing roles at New American Funding, Homepoint and Rocket Mortgage. Her new role will involve overseeing product marketing across Dara’s core, default and consumer mortgage servicing platforms.
Calhoun and Warnica will report to Perry Hilzendeger, Sagent’s executive vice president of strategic growth, who oversees all strategic growth, customer success and customer implementation teams.
