Company Details
Compliance Connections™ is a code compliance management system created by Safeguard Properties that offers technology and fulfillment solutions designed to help loan servicers and communities address the challenges associated with vacant and at-risk properties.
Compliance Connections’ workflow-driven system provides lien holders and their appointed servicers immediate notification of new violations, tracks abatement activity, and provides servicers with turnkey technology that enables efficient and comprehensive monitoring of municipal notices and code violations.
Compliance Connections’ extensive outreach and community-focused resolution strategies assist loan servicers in quickly identifying at-risk property issues and engage responsible parties for fast resolution thus reducing costs while preserving property values. Safeguard Properties’ commitment to communication, collaboration and compliance plays a vital role in helping municipalities, homeowners associations and lenders resolve their most difficult challenges.
Compliance Connections was created to offer community-focused abatement and resolution strategies through a technology platform designed to automate workflow, manage documentation and facilitate real-time communication.
Compliance Connections reinforces Safeguard Properties’ mission to safeguard our clients’ interests, bringing together diverse stakeholders with a common goal of protecting and preserving properties, neighborhoods and communities.
Key Personnel
Alan Jaffa
Alan Jaffa is the chief executive officer for Safeguard Properties, a role he assumed in May 2010. Previously he served as chief operations officer. Since joining Safeguard in 1995, Alan has focused his attention on the development of customer-centric policies and procedures designed to ensure the adherence to the Safeguard doctrine. Alan is a constant innovator who continually strives to improve and strengthen Safeguard’s position in the industry and to provide our employees with the empowerment necessary to proactively perform their duties. Under his leadership, Safeguard has enjoyed extraordinary growth that has catapulted the company to its current position as the largest privately held mortgage field services company in the nation. During this extraordinary growth period, Safeguard has been recognized in Northeast Ohio by the Weatherhead 100 for 19 consecutive years. In 2008, Alan was recognized by Crain’s Cleveland Business in its annual “40-Under-40″ profile of young leaders.
Brandon Kirkham
Brandon Kirkham is the president of Compliance Connections. Prior to his work with Safeguard, Brandon was the executive vice president of First Preston Management, a real estate asset management, marketing and advisory services firm. During his six years with First Preston he directed the daily operations for a variety of corporate, institutional and government clients. Prior to joining First Preston Management, Brandon was a first vice president for Countrywide Home Loans. His responsibilities varied significantly over his tenure to include unit start-ups, portfolio management, operations management, loss and risk management, due diligence, private label servicing, sub-servicing, alternative mortgage servicing, investor relations, rating agency reporting and policy management. Brandon has a BBA degree in finance and entrepreneurship from Baylor University.
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