Our Team - Vice Capital Markets

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TROY D. BAARS

President

Troy has over 20 years of mortgage banking experience. Prior to joining Vice Capital, he was SVP of correspondent lending at Universal Savings Bank. Before that, Troy held multiple positions at Washtenaw Mortgage, starting in underwriting and ending as VP of secondary marketing responsible for the day-to-day management of a mortgage pipeline exceeding $4 billion a year.

After successfully completing his term of service with the Air Force, Troy earned his B.A. in Finance from Michigan State University and his MBA from Wayne State University with a concentration in Finance.

MEET THE TEAM

Meet the Team

Chris Bennett

Principal

Prior to founding Vice Capital in 2001, Chris was director of secondary marketing for Homestead USA and head trader at Republic Bancorp. He started out in the agricultural futures markets nearly 30 years ago, but since 1994 has focused exclusively on the U.S. bond markets. Chris has personally traded over $200B of mortgage-backed securities and related instruments.

He is responsible for pioneering now industry-standard advancements in pipeline shock analysis, which accounts for changes in implied servicing values for incremental changes in underlying MBS pricing. He holds an economics degree from the University of Michigan.

Kimberly M. Campbell

Vice President

Kim has 25 years of mortgage banking experience. She manages Vice Capital's daily position reporting, pair-offs and settlements. Before that, Kim held multiple positions at Homestead USA, including oversight of day-to-day operations of the secondary marketing department. Kim began her career with First Central Mortgage after graduating from Central Michigan University in 1992.

Shawn D. Ansley

Managing Director

Shawn joined Vice Capital in 2005 after earning a master’s degree in applied and computational mathematics from the University of Michigan. He is responsible for execution modeling, fallout analysis and the development of new reporting processes for clients. He also runs quantitative analytics at Vice Capital and recently developed a method for improving the precision of daily pull-through modeling of pipeline performance.