For over 25 years, Mercedes Vela has been an integral part of the mortgage and credit reporting industry, at the forefront of digitizing mortgage solutions while working with CoreLogic.

As the company’s senior leaderof product management and customer, Vela’s work reinforced her reputation as an industry expert. Vela’s dedication and collaboration with CoreLogic team members have helped define key business strategies and initiatives, creating new boundaries for credit and consumer reporting. Vela is dedicated to ensuring that CoreLogic products and services are delivered with the highest quality as the guiding force for managing integrations and mortgage credit strategy. For six years, Vela was the co-chair of the Mortgage Industry Maintenance Standards Organization credit group, where she rallied to create and develop industry standards for exchanging information and conducting business in the U.S. mortgage finance industry. Vela is known for her wealth of industry and company expertise, as she is tapped for her advice and wisdom frequently by people across CoreLogic and the mortgage industry. Vela spent all of 2019 working side-by-side with Fannie Mae to acquire Day 1 Certainty certification for CoreLogic’s Verification of Employment and Verification of Income products, and works with the GSE continuously to ensure CoreLogic products reach D1C certification.