President's Message

Welcome to our new web site.  Our Board of Directors approved funding to modernize the site, in an effort to enhance its usefulness and to integrate an easy to use credit card payment facility.  I hope you will take a few moments to explore.

The core function of the GCMBA is to identify local, regional, and national issues relevant to our membership, and to produce a speaker series that addresses those issues.  Our veteran Board of Directors represent a cross section of the northeastern Ohio real estate community, and they have done an outstanding job of identifying and securing relevant programming for our monthly networking luncheon events.  Two new committees have been formed to brainstorm relevant residential and commercial topics.  Relevancy of programming is of paramount concern, and I urge you to contact a board member or me personally with any idea you may have.

Highlights from the past two years include presentations from executives associated with Playhouse Square, the Med Mart, Rock Ventures (casino), Cleveland Clinic, Flats East Bank, Cleveland Cavaliers, Midtown Tech Park, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Key Bank underwriting supervisors, Cleveland Aquarium, Cleveland State, and University Circle – just to name a few.  Programming for our current fiscal year develops as I write this update.   In October, GCMBA is co-sponsoring an exciting event at CSU’s Monte Ahuja College of Business on the future of real estate.  November will be a residential event, and in January our annual economic forecast features Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, Dr. Mark Sniderman.

Watch for GCMBA  email blasts, and I look forward to seeing you soon.

Jack Branden
President
Greater Cleveland Mortgage Bankers Association