Meet the Comply IO Executive Management Team
The ComplyIO Executive Management team leads a growing team of professionals, both internal, as well as expert outside legal and compliance professionals
Wes Yuan
Founder and CEO
As LendingPad founder and chief executive officer, Wes is passionate about compliance and innovative financial technology. He learned compliance as a practitioner and principal stakeholder as he built and sold WEI Mortgage Corp, a nationwide mortgage lender to Angelo Gordon, and served as the Board's Chairman at Old Dominion National Bank. Wes began his career at GE in the information management leadership program. He holds a bachelors in mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and a masters in computer engineering from John Hopkins University.
Dominique Wiest
VP of Regulatory Compliance
Dominique became LendingPad's inaugural vice president of regulatory compliance in 2022. Prior to her appointment, Dominique worked at the CFPB as an examiner and in the systems department contributing to the build-out and design of financial examination systems - improving accuracy and workload capacity. Dominique's regulatory career began as a North Carolina examiner where she designed and helped create automated mortgage compliance and examination tools. Prior to her regulatory career, Dominique gained closing and operations experience in the mortgage industry with GE, Irwin Mortgage, CTX Mortgage, and National Mortgage Access (mortgage broker) and in the site industry as a Title Insurance Agent. Dominique holds a BA from North Carolina Wesleyan University and an MBA from Trident University International.
Frank Tuttle
Head Compliance Technology Architect
Frank joined LendingPad in 2022 where he serves as the head compliance technology architect. Frank's career includes leadership roles at automated compliance providers Mavent, where he was a founder, and ComplianceEase. Frank pairs vendor tenure with lender experience, including having served as a chief information officer at New Day and senior vice president of mortgage technology at loanDepot. Earlier in Frank's career, he designed, wrote, and marketed Foresight Mortgage Systems, an end-to-end LOS for midsize mortgage companies. Frank earned a bachelor of engineering from Vanderbilt and his MBA from Pepperdine.
Mark Chiba
Compliance Officer
Mark joined LendingPad in 2020 and serves as its compliance officer. As a Six Sigma Black Belt, Mark applies intelligent solutions and new approaches to intransigent industry compliance challenges. Mark has a consulting background and was the licensing manager and compliance officer for Arc Home. In this role, Mark managed hundreds of licenses, as well as wide-ranging legal and regulatory compliance issues. He also created and supervised an internship program. Mark earned his bachelor's in International Business Management from Brigham Young University- Hawaii and a JD from the George Washington University School of Law.
Dan Smith
VP of Strategy and Sales
Dan joined LendingPad in 2021 as vice president of strategy and sales, and he helps guide the ComplyIO regulatory and technology initiatives. Dan has significant experience working with state and federal regulators, including serving on the AARMR industry advisory council. Dan joined the leadership team at ComplianceEase as senior vice president of government relations, and previously grew and managed the sales and integration teams. Prior to this, at Fiserv, Dan led a consulting and support team that assisted in valuing mortgage servicing portfolios. Dan holds a bachelors from Calvin College in philosophy and an MBA from Duke University.