Sagent Welcomes Mortgage Luminary Priya Seenath as SVP, Chief of Staff, Technology and Engineering

Fresh off of our recent executive addition of Fannie Mae vet Marianne Sullivan coming aboard as Sagent COO, we’re pleased to welcome yet another mortgage visionary, Priya Seenath, to Sagent’s team as Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff, Technology and Engineering. Priya will be a crucial asset to advancing Sagent’s development of the industry’s first and only cloud-native platforms that power homeownership and loan servicing lifecycles for servicers, consumers, investors, and regulators in the highly regulated $13T mortgage servicing sector.

Priya brings a unique perspective to Sagent’s senior leadership team; Priya has nurtured the relationship between Sagent and Freedom Mortgage, the #1 government lender in America, from Freedom’s side for the last nine years, collaborating intimately with Sagent’s team to ensure the partnership flourished to empower reciprocal growth.

“Those who have worked with me know that I’m relentless when it comes to execution and delivering on an effortless, flawless experience for homeowners at every single touchpoint. This is how we win customers for life — this is a daily mantra for me, and it’s embedded in my DNA,” said Seenath.

Given Sagent’s emphasis on empathy and commitment to prioritizing the needs of homeowners by empowering the servicers who support them, Priya’s nuanced understanding of servicer and homeowner needs — and deep knowledge of how to facilitate fruitful partnerships powered by modern fintech — will be a considerable boon to Sagent’s mission to lead the evolution on loan servicing by solving its most complex challenges.

“I’ve long been deeply invested in Sagent’s vision to fundamentally change the dynamics of America’s housing ecosystem, and I have witnessed firsthand how Sagent’s servicing technology is rapidly revolutionizing the way servicers process and deliver positive homeowner outcomes,” said Seenath.

“Sagent is all about hyper-efficiency — how can we make this as easy as possible for homeowners, and in a way that minimizes risk and delivers a next-gen experience for the servicers who help them? I know how impactful this nuanced innovation is for servicers, and I’m thrilled to join Sagent and build the future of mortgage servicing technology together.”

This will be the latest chapter in Priya’s career as a mortgage fintech bellwether and scale-execution specialist, with more than 25 years of experience in the banking and mortgage industry, specifically in data quality and customer experience. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President of Servicing at Freedom Mortgage. One of the inaugural senior leaders at Freedom, Priya’s impact was profound, helping grow their book from $49B when she joined to roughly $500B at the point of her exit.

Her accomplishments at Freedom include:

• Implementing a robust RCA process around complaints that has since been adopted across the entire organization, leading to a 55% reduction in complaints and markedly increased customer satisfaction, with customer satisfaction scores at 91.5 (up from the lows 80s) at the time of Priya’s departure.
• Standing up an expansive issue management framework which has since been adopted across the org and is now used as a repository for all identified opportunities, with a robust interrogation and remediation process to instill controls to eliminate repeat complaints or issues.

At Sagent, Priya will help speed up this specialized modernization of the largest sector in consumer finance. Sagent has the industry’s only enterprise, default, and consumer mortgage servicing platforms that are all synced by real-time-data. This is the latest in a series of Sagent moves to transform the homeowner experience for financial orgs servicing millions of consumers with trillions in mortgage balances.

If you’d like to learn what leaders like Priya are building at Sagent —or if you’d like to put your expertise to work alongside her — let’s talk!