Mark Fleming-Chief Economist, First American CoreLogic

As chief economist for First American CoreLogic Inc., Santa Ana, California, a provider of collateral risk-management and fraud-prevention solutions, Mark Fleming leads the company's economic and research team from the company's Vienna, Virginia, office.

Fleming is responsible for developing the collateral and creditrisk models that serve as the basis of the CoreLogic product suite through economic analysis and real estate market monitoring and analysis of market trends.

Fleming also has spent the last several years studying mortgage fraud and fraud-prevention strategies.

Prior to joining CoreLogic, Fleming was at Fannie Mae, where he developed property valuation models designed as part of collateral-assessment applications used in mortgage origination, quality control and loss mitigation. He also managed a modeldevelopment and implementation team responsible for maintenance and development of collateral model production code and data sets for mortgage origination software and automated property valuation applications.