January 25, 2010 -
Financial Digest
Name: Joseph Mueller
Title: President
Company: Rockport Mortgage Corp.
Location: 17 Rogers St., Gloucester, MA 01930
Birthplace and year: St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1947
Family: Wife, Eileen; sons: Joseph, Ryan, Colin
College: St. Louis University, BS in Economics; Cornell University, MS, Economics; Suffolk University, MBA
First job outside of finance: Economist for U.S. Dept. of Commerce
First job in finance or allied field: Loan officer for GMAC mortgage
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Together with Dan Lyons and Eric Lubershane, we manage a privately-owned commercial mortgage firm with 20 employees. We're targeting closing $600 million in loan volume in 2009 of which 95% are FHA projects; $120 million is targetted for projects in New York.
Hobbies: Golf, fishing, boating
Favorite book: "Blood Meridian" by Cormack McCarthy
Favorite movie: "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Key to success: Provide service to your clients
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Economist in a third world country