Hammerhouse Expands By Opening New Office In Chicago

MISSION VIEJO, CA, April 06, 2011 (Press-News.org) Hammerhouse LLC, an expanding national recruiting and strategic growth firm for the financial service industry with mortgage sales and leadership placement at its core, announced today it has expanded its national footprint by opening a new regional office in Chicago, IL. This new office, the company's third in the U.S., will be managed by John Van Tassel, Vice President Strategic Growth and will work with both national and regional clients to help grow their sales leadership, production teams and branch networks.

"Chicago is the next logical location for Hammerhouse to expand its national footprint and deploy our unique model-matching process to help mortgage bankers and depositories expand top line revenue by adding experienced mortgage professionals," commented Drew Waterhouse, Managing Director of Hammerhouse LLC. "We believe many of our clients will be better served with our local presence in Chicago, and by working with John to leverage his experience in making high quality, inaccessible and model-matched candidates accessible on an ongoing basis."

Mr. Van Tassel assumes his role with seven years of experience in nationwide recruiting of mortgage production professionals. For the last two year, Mr. Van Tassel has worked for Hammerhouse, as Vice President Strategic Growth, at the company's headquarters in Mission Viejo, CA, where he helped clients build out sales, executive leadership and production teams. Previously, Mr. Van Tassel was part of American Home Mortgage's internal recruiting department focusing on recruiting production professionals for the retail, wholesale and correspondent channels.

To contact Mr. Van Tassel, please call 708-716-4765 or email him at john.vantassel@teamhammerhouse.net.

Since inception in late 2008, when the Company was founded by a core group of search professional with over 30 years of combined experience of developing strategic partnerships with mortgage bankers and the financial services sector, Hammerhouse has helped its clients bring on board what equates to approximately $6.5 billion in annualized production volume. Hammerhouse is headquartered in Mission Viejo, CA, with regional offices in Greater Charlotte, NC and now Chicago, IL.

About Hammerhouse LLC

Hammerhouse LLC is an expanding national recruiting and strategic growth firm for the financial services industry with mortgage sales and leadership placement at its core. Founded in 2008, Hammerhouse partners with clients to source, attract model-match, hire and retain revenue-generating human capital at all levels of an organization---- from production to executive leadership. Through its unique model-matching process, Hammerhouse helps mortgage bankers and depositories as well as private equity firms entering and expanding in the market, expand top line revenue by adding experienced mortgage professionals that focus on purchase business and have developed transferable relationships from referral partners and past customers. For more information on Hammerhouse LLC, please visit http://www.teamhammerhouse.com.

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