Executive Leadership Team

Rodrigo Pinto has more than 20 years of experience in finance and accounting across various industries including financial services and real estate. Prior to joining Real Matters in April 2023, Mr. Pinto was at Royal LePage Real Estate Services where he led the team responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and taxation, and played a key role in the company’s long-term strategy and acquisitions. Prior to Royal LePage, Mr. Pinto served as Chief Financial Officer of The Nationwide Group of Companies and MBAC Fertilizer Corp. (TSX: MBC). He started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Brazil and in the United States. Mr. Pinto worked as a management consultant at Fannie Mae and subsequently moved into senior accounting and finance positions at Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI, NYSE:AUY, LSE:AUY) and TD Bank Group (TSX,NYSE: TD). Mr. Pinto is a Chartered Professional Accountant in the U.S. and Canada.

Loren Cooke was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Real Matters in October 2024. He joined the company in 2008 and was a key leader in driving the growth that transformed the business from a Canadian startup into one of the largest in appraisal management companies in the United States and a national title insurance provider. Mr. Cooke has a strong record of deploying technology solutions with financial institutions and was instrumental in onboarding the company’s largest U.S. mortgage lender clients. He is also President of Solidifi, a position which he has held since 2015.

Mr. Cooke has more than two decades of experience in driving technology and business solutions within the financial services industry including real estate valuations, title insurance services, mortgage and loan origination technologies, mortgage services and data management. Prior to Real Matters, he held senior management roles at Davis & Henderson (Finastra) and Equifax Inc.

Mr. Smith has more than 20 years of experience in mortgage technologies and a wealth of experience in driving high-growth, cross-company engineering initiatives and collaboration strategies that deliver mission critical business solutions. He joined Real Matters in 2006. Throughout his career, Mr. Smith has demonstrated experience in building solutions for the Canadian and U.S. mortgage industries and has gained extensive knowledge and involvement in real estate collateral assessment and mortgage processing. Mr. Smith has held various executive positions at multiple organizations within the industry. As Vice President at Basis100, Mr. Smith led business units responsible for point-of-sale applications designed for mortgage brokers as well as managed the development and implementation of an automated underwriting system for lending institutions. Mr. Smith also led the market requirements and delivery of a U.S. collateral assessment solution, which brought the leading automated valuation model (“AVM”) and appraisal companies onto a single transaction platform.