Addressing a consumer’s needs and delivering either a product or a service in easiest manner available is a combination for success. This is the reason why Sarah Hikel is revered among her peers and employees. As the Chief Operations Officer for Mortgage Investment Lending Associations, Inc., Hikel made customer satisfaction her primary goal. By addressing customers in a punctual manner, Hikel has helped to increase revenue by 100% annually during her seven-year tenure. Furthermore she increased the operating budget from $10 million to $100 million in only five years. With an exponential increase in budget, Hikel was able to raise employment from 50 employees to over 600 with $550 million in monthly funded volumes. This is a ten-fold increase that was manageable due to the system that Hikel helped to implement. Her foresight to address the needs of scalability also gave her the resources to promote the company in magazines and other publications.
Her remarkable success can be attributed to her passion to follow all aspects of the law. Sarah Hikel understands the benefits of complying with regulations, which is creating a system of accountability and structure that helps to pinpoint contained inefficiencies and problems before they become widespread. These reassurances and proactive measures have helped her gain the trust of her peers and her subordinates.
Furthermore, Sarah Hikel understands the importance of human resources. She has given clear career paths for her internal employees so that they have a clear purpose and goal that they will be able to achieve. If in certain cases that she does not have an employee with a certain skill set, she will bring contractors in to help ensure that operations run as smoothly as possible. These qualities have made Sarah Hikel one of the most sought after executives on the market.

Thanks for stopping by and checking in. Now that you’re here, how have you been? Have you been able to successfully find new employment?

http://www.raincityguide.com/2008/10/05/milas-bankruptcy/

If memory serves me right they did not work there prior to the “fateful closing” so it may be a regroup or a re-landing of folks from old MILA. I may have no idea what the relationship is between the Hikels or the Saaps, I am sure as adults they can manage their own social lives and professional/financial lives as well. It seems you were driving a point home…as subtle as it came across. All on a “hair clip” no less!! I think everyone who ever worked at MILA has a bone to pick or a disappointment to leverage in order to make sense of the mess it made of many lives. Even in it’s success there was lots going on that had noting to do with honesty, integrity or the blame for closing. I guess bitterness is just a natural outcome of leaving MILA, and you seem to have a good dose of it, even after all this time. I wish you well, and hope you are able to move forward from your time at MILA and your need to spread the word as you see it on what the “real story” is for the previous executives.

CRS Holdings has been in existence for years – I may be mistaken, but I believe it even predates MILA’s inception, or incorporation, at least. Nearly everyone knows/knew this (except you?) I’m afraid I’ll shock you with news that there’s multiple CRS LLCs – three, I believe. Last I heard NEXT/DecisionPoint was still alive and well too- that’s Laynes as well. … but you knew that, right?

The Hikels and Sapps are friends and business partners outside of MILA – something way beyond ANY of us would have had to happen to have that relationship severed simply with the closing of MILA “that fateful day”.

So, (basically) they didn’t really regroup or hook back up after the dust settled, they were already there. The internet is a great resource, but for the record: Just because it’s on the internet, doesn’t make it true. I’d swear that on Michelle Steinmetzers hair clip any day.

Mark Hikel – Advisor
Mr. Hikel brings over 20 years experience in mortgage and investment banking, real estate finance and capital markets. He provides guidance to the overall financial direction for the business by assisting in aligning the finances of the firm with the overall business strategy. Prior to joining Board at JB Capital, he served as the President of Mortgage Investment Lending Associates, Executive Vice President of Loraca and DMR Financial Services.

http://jb-capital.com/main_about.htm