MAXEX today announced that John Levonick has joined the company as General Counsel. His appointment reflects the increasingly strategic role of legal, regulatory, technology and structural innovation as MAXEX advances its mission to transition the mortgage secondary market from analog to digital.
Levonick brings more than 25 years of experience as a CEO, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. He is widely recognized as an entrepreneur and innovator in the financial markets who has helped banks, lenders, servicers, regulators and technology companies navigate complex regulatory and technology challenges. His deep expertise in digital assets and the tokenization of credit markets aligns directly with MAXEX’s next phase of growth.
“John brings a rare combination of legal skill, technical understanding and practical experience in the electronification of complex financial markets,” said Tom Pearce, MAXEX CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder. “His leadership strengthens our ability to meet the insatiable demand for assets from private credit investors while delivering a fully digital secondary market that makes trading more transparent, efficient and scalable for all participants.”
Levonick has co-founded a tech-enabled mortgage due diligence firm and has contributed to consumer financial services, fintech and blockchain practices at law firms including Garris Horn LLP, Ballard Spahr LLP and Pepper Hamilton LLP (now Troutman Pepper LLP). He has also held corporate leadership positions at subsidiaries of Accenture, Wipro, Radian and Fiserv. His published work on the evolution of digital assets has positioned him as an early leader in loan tokenization and the electronification of credit markets.
MAXEX continues to accelerate growth in its digital mortgage exchange. The company now connects approximately 400 bank and non-bank mortgage originators with more than three dozen premier institutional private market buyers. Its electronic trading platform supports a full range of products including jumbo, non-QM, DSCR and Agency-eligible loans, along with execution across delegated flow, non-delegated flow and bulk trading channels. To date MAXEX has facilitated nearly $50 billion in non-Agency lock volume as it continues to scale a modern digital market infrastructure.
