Sherry Walton

Sherry Walton is a Senior Consultant with Gate House Strategies. She brings extensive experience and expertise in the areas of Multi-Family and Single-Family risk and default management, portfolio management, servicing operations, REO dispositions, asset management, and development of new servicing initiatives. With over 30 years as a senior mortgage professional and industry subject matter expert, Sherry provides strong and broad experience in mortgage lending including the development and implementation of strategic business strategies, operational expansion, technology solution expansion, and oversight for Fannie Mae’s innovative corporate strategies to provide liquidity to the mortgage and capital markets. 

During Ms. Walton’s time as the Director of Fannie Mae’s Single-Family Strategic Business Initiatives and Servicing Strategies organizations, Ms. Walton developed and implemented several programs and products to meet the needs of the mortgage market. The Bifurcation of Selling and Servicing Representations and Warranties innovative servicing solution, Best Efforts servicing option, and Capital Markets technology system development are a few strategic programs that Ms. Walton developed from concept, development, implementation, and operations. 

During her time managing Freddie Mac’s REO Disposition and Small Income Property departments, Ms. Walton provided leadership and oversight of the daily performance management for third-party REO customer accounts. She was responsible for the development and implementation of a state-of-the-art technology system, sales, closings, appraisals, and REO disposition and asset management.  Additionally, Ms. Walton developed policies and procedures for the Multi-Family department as she was responsible for the leadership, management, and development of a 20+-person staff.