Lynette DeNike

From the close-up perspective of mortgage banking, Lynette DeNike was immersed in the lending policies and practices of our nation's leading financial institutions as interest rates dropped to record lows and then spiked up. Her front row seat during events that caused today's rapidly evolving financial crisis, combined with a passion for helping consumers understand credit, uniquely positions her as a guide through this constantly changing and inescapable credit maze.

Lynette left mortgage banking recently to write a non-traditional book on consumer credit. A 20-year senior corporate executive and marketing consultant for first-to-market technology companies, she began her career as a political staffer, wrote for public television, and founded a cheesecake company in San Francisco.