About Beth
Elizabeth (Beth) O’Brien has over 30 years of experience in almost every aspect of the mortgage industry, as both a principal and an advisor. She has overseen more than $20 billion in transactions and was named in Housing Wire’s 2014 Women of Influence and 2018 Women of Influence, as well as Mortgage Professionals America’s 2016 and 2017 Elite Women in Mortgage and 2016 GlobeSt.com Real Estate Forum Women of Influence.
Beth previously founded Colony American Finance (now CoreVest), serving as CEO and growing the company into the nation’s premier private real estate lender. Before that, Beth was Executive Vice President at Auction.com, where she ran residential capital markets, and was President and Co-Founder of AuctionFinance.com, where she ran the financing strategy for the platform in addition to the private lender.
Beth also held prior positions in RMBS trading and securitization at Citigroup and in Real Estate Private Equity at Goldman Sachs. Beth holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law Center.
