Westcor Bolsters Exec Team

January 12, 2016

Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. announced the appointment of Ryan Peterson as executive vice president. In this role, Peterson will provide senior leadership to Westcor’s newest division, Investor Services. He will also guide the launch of a new division of Westcor.

“We are extremely excited to have Ryan joining the senior executive team at Westcor,” said Mary O’Donnell, president and CEO of Westcor. “Ryan has proven himself as an innovative thinker in the title insurance industry through his successful launch and leadership of two national title insurance agencies. Ryan will bring that same energy, passion, and tireless quest to create new solutions to the new divisions which he will foster and oversee at Westcor.”

Prior to joining Westcor, Peterson was the co-founder, president and CEO of Avenue 365 Lender Services, a national title insurance agency. There he created a national origination services division that provided title insurance and settlement services to the origination marketplace, as well as a default services division that provided products and services to the institutional investor marketplace. Prior to Avenue 365, Ryan was the co-founder and ultimately CEO of Smartertitle.com, another national title insurance agency that he sold to a top-five mortgage originator in 2008.


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