Wes
Costello
Wes is responsible for Loan Quality, Fraud Identification and Education, and serves as the BSA/AML Officer at AnnieMac Home Mortgage. He is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and Risk Management Committee, and guides Appraisal Policy for the company. Wes’s teams direct Appraisal Administration, Condominium Project Approval, Cash Offer programs, and Counterparty Risk.
An enterprise-wide culture of quality, real-time trend reporting, highly discretionary and targeted pre-close quality control, and confidential fraud reporting are tools that Wes sees as essential to effective risk management.
Wes is a member of the Risk Management Committee of the MBA and developed the Cash2Keys home-buying platform in 2021. Wes has been a speaker for the BSA Coalition, The Mortgage Collaborative, Valuation Expo, and has authored articles in appraisal industry publications.
A graduate of the University of Richmond, Wes started out in the mortgage industry as an originator before shifting to loan quality and strategic risk disciplines. Wes lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife Michala and two children.