Author Bio
Summary
Monroe is a 35-year real estate & title industry leader. Started with 15 years as a banker, becoming the bank’s president. Then founded a full-service title & escrow company, serving banks as his clients for another 15 years, where he encountered a painful, manual process for a specific set of corporate clients. Monroe automated that process with ground-breaking software and founded Title Leader. Users are in the Default Services, Renewable Energy Developers, and Commercial Real Estate industries. Monroe has been requested to share his extensive title knowledge and insight as a featured speaker at over 250 events, classes, and conventions in the lending, title, Realtor, default services, and renewable energy development sectors as well as for the University of KY and the KY State Legislature.
Professional
Founder/CEO, Title Leader – 2018-present
A management & fulfillment platform for title searches and title insurance commitments. Saves users weeks per year, and eliminates weeks of common delays. Adds accountability and gets users out of work silos and into shared data. Moving clients into the 21st Century.
Founder/CEO, Jett Title – 2003-2018
Full-service title/escrow company serving all 120 counties of Kentucky.
Closed over 8,000 transactions. Wrote for all major underwriters.
American Land Title Assoc. – member.
Mortgage Bankers Association of the Bluegrass – Board member, Education Director.
President, Lender and Marketing Director,
Bank of the Bluegrass & Trust Co. – 1989-2003
Full-service commercial bank and financial services company.
Board member – 1995-present.
Community Bankers of Kentucky – Board member
Independent Community Bankers Association of America – PAC member
Education
The Graduate Banking School of the South at LSU – 1999, diploma.
The Kentucky Banking School at University of Louisville – 1993, diploma.
The University of Kentucky – 1989, BA, marketing.
The Baylor School, Chattanooga, TN – 1985, diploma. Boarding, college preparatory high school.