Fintech Hunting Episode #66 with Industry Icon Patrick Stone Executive Chairman & Founder, Williston Financial Group.

Don't miss this insightful and dynamic episode of the Fintech Hunting Podcast where we discuss: How business has changed since the pandemic, what are the biggest challenges facing our industry today, leveraging technology in the mortgage lending space, Artificial Intelligence (AI), where our industry is heading over the next three to six months and so much more with industry icon Patrick Stone Executive Chairman & Founder, Williston Financial Group. Patrick Stone has enjoyed a lengthy career in real estate and real estate related services, including “C-level” officer positions with three public companies and as a director on two Fortune 500 Boards. His senior executive management positions included nine years as President and COO of the nation’s largest title insurance company, Chairman and Co-CEO of a software company and CEO of a real estate data and information company. Pat has served as Vice-Chairman of Metrocities Mortgage, a 2005 top twenty mortgage lender, and as Chairman of The Stone Group, an Austin, Texas-based tenant-rep brokerage company. He has also served on the boards of Fidelity National Financial, First American Corporation, FNIS, MicroGeneral, SKLD, World Minerals, Green Street Advisors, DigitalMap, Homegain, RedVision, and Wystein Capital. Currently, Pat serves as Executive Chairman and Founder of Williston Financial Group, as well as on the boards of Nassau Reinsurance, Transmodus, Trysting Tree Golf Club, and Inman News, who named him one of 2013’s “100 Most Influential People in Real Estate” and one of the “Top 101 Real Estate Industry Doers” in 2015. Pat received Housing Wire’s coveted Vanguard Award in 2019, Progress in Lending’s Lending Luminary Awards in 2019 and 2020, and October Research’s annual Leadership Award in 2020. His Philanthropic involvement has included service as Chairman of the Santa Barbara Art Museum and as a Director of the Portland Art Museum. He is a past chairman of the Oregon State University Foundation, and Co-Chair of its Billion Dollar Capital Campaign.  Pat has three daughters, five grandchildren and resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife Vicki.