Southeast Mortgage announces new Milton-resident President

ATLANTA (Jan 6, 2014) – Southeast Mortgage of Georgia, Inc. Senior Vice President John David “J.D.” Crowe has been promoted to president of the full-service Atlanta mortgage company. J.D. will also serve as president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Georgia, assuming that position later this year. Crowe joined Southeast Mortgage as senior vice president in 2010.

Effective Jan. 1, Crowe is responsible for licensed mortgage originator sales while maintaining the company’s top service standards and capital markets operations. As president of Georgia’s largest non-bank lender, Crowe will continue to deliver exceptional mortgage services to Southeast Mortgage’s clients and referral partners.

“I am honored to serve the company in my new role as president and look forward to the challenges that it provides,” said Crowe. “We will grow market share by continuing to provide the absolute best service in the industry to our referral partners and clients, hiring the best-in-class MLOs and looking for strategic opportunities to combine companies that align with our purpose and culture.”

Prior to assuming the presidency, Crowe has owned his own mortgage operation, originated as a broker and correspondent as well as originated in a national bank and at a direct non-bank lender. Crowe is well versed in direct government-sponsored enterprises and is knowledgeable on all channels of mortgage loan origination.

“J.D. has been an effective member of our executive group for the past four years. He has proven himself as a well-rounded, tenacious executive who can abstractly think and engineer to a desired result,” said Cal Haupt, CEO of Southeast Mortgage. “I am confident that as president, J.D. will continue to adapt SEM to serve its licensed MLOs, clients, and referral partners with innovative strategies to ensure SEM accomplishes its mission to fill the mortgage service provider void in Georgia.” 

Crowe also becomes the president of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Georgia this year, a trade association dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the mortgage banking system. He will take office in June. While serving two terms as president of the Georgia Association of Mortgage Brokers, he coordinated the merger of the Association with the Mortgage Bankers Association of Georgia.

Crowe, a native of Anderson, SC, is a graduate of Furman University, a former US Army officer and lives in Milton. He is married to Kelli Stewart Crowe and has three boys ages 16, 15 and 11. Crowe is a member of the National Eagle Scout Society, is an active member and volunteer at North Point Community Church and is a volunteer at several non-profit, charitable organizations including The Seed Company, Operation Resolute, Ghana Hope, Meals With A Mission and Global Leadership.

About Southeast Mortgage
Southeast Mortgage, founded in 1993, is the largest non-bank lender in Georgia.  A regional HUD lender with 10 branches doing business in Georgia, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, Southeast is a full-service mortgage lender offering FHA Loans, VA Loans, conventional and jumbo loans. Southeast assists its customers with purchase loans, as well as refinancing customers’ current, primary residences, second homes or investment properties. Southeast offers the following services: fixed rate loans, adjustable rate mortgages (ARM), interest only loans, jumbo loans, FHA, VA and USDA loans, and rate and term/cash-out refinancing. Southeast Mortgage is also the only mortgage lender to guarantee its customers an eight-day close on mortgages.