Nations Landing Readies Itself for Joint Venture Business with Addition of Key Hire Lori Phillips Tapped to Support Influx of New Branches as Nations Continues to Scale News provided by Share this article Share this article INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, April 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nations Lending, a leading national full-service mortgage lender, has continued to build on its year-over-year growth with dozens of new branch openings. Today, the company announced it is adding additional support to ensure it can scale efficiently by welcoming Lori Phillips, VP of Production Onboarding, to the team. Lori Phillips Joins Nations Phillips comes to Nations Lending from Wisconsin-based Shelter Mortgage, where she drove and managed the onboarding of new strategic partners to maximize growth and profitability in the joint venture channel of NewRez, a national mortgage lender. She handled some of the most complicated aspects of the business, from state licensing and government approvals to investor set-up and compliance. Tasked with maximizing growth and profitability for the company, Phillips spent more than 12 years leading this area of the business.