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2019 HW Tech Trendsetters: Shaimaa Elk

Executive Vice President and CIO, Sagent Lending Technologies

Shaimaa Elk, Sagent Lending Technologies executive vice president and CIO

Under Shaimaa Elk’s leadership, Sagent Lending Technologies has delivered innovative solutions that are intuitive, easy to use, fully configurable to adapt to a lender’s business and desired workflow and provide a great experience to borrowers, delivering real-time information at their fingertips.

Elk continues to look to future innovations centered on how humans interact with data and money movement to meet their unique lifestyles, and ways to leverage consumer services such as Apple Pay and integrated Alexa loan management. Elk is responsible for managing all elements of technology development and implementation for Sagent Lending technologies and spearheads digital transformation and human-centric design. Sagent Lending Technologies’ human-centric approach benefits clients by offering a superior, intuitive web interface that improves productivity, lowers servicing costs, mitigates risk and improves borrower engagement with its digital self-service offering and access to data in real-time.

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