Board of Directors

Patrick J. Duffy has served as a Director and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Guild Holdings Company since August 2020. Patrick has served as a member of Guild Mortgage Company LLC’s board of managers since October 2020. From 2018 to October 2020, Patrick served as a member of the board of directors of Guild Mortgage Company LLC. Patrick is the President and Managing Partner of McCarthy Capital, which he joined in 2007. Patrick serves as a director on the boards of various McCarthy Capital entities and portfolio companies including Altair Global Services, LLC, a global relocation services company, Life Care Companies, LLC, a manager and developer of senior living communities, ReAlign Insurance Holdings, LLC and certain of its subsidiaries, and Sigilo, LLC (dba Spreetail), an e-commerce company. Patrick also currently serves on the board of directors of the Children’s Scholarship Fund of Omaha. Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree from the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, and a juris doctor degree from Creighton University School of Law.

Terry L. Schmidt is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Guild Holdings Company. Terry has served as Guild Mortgage Company LLC’s Chief Executive Officer since July 2023 and as a member of its board of managers since August 2020. From 2006 to October 2020, she also served as a member of Guild Mortgage Company LLC’s board of directors. Prior to assuming the role of CEO, Terry served in a number of leadership positions at Guild Mortgage Company LLC, including as President from 2020 to 2023. Terry joined Guild Mortgage Company LLC in 1985. She is currently a member of the California Mortgage Bankers Association, a member of the board of directors of the Guild Giving Foundation, a non-profit organization, and a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Terry earned a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting from the University of San Diego and is a certified mortgage banker.

Michael ("Mike") C. Meyer has served as a Director of Guild Holdings Company since August 2020. From October 2020 to December 2020, Mike served as a member of the board of managers of Guild Mortgage Company LLC. From 2015 to October 2020, Mike served as the Chairman of the board of directors of Guild Mortgage Company LLC, and as a member of its board of directors from 2013 to October 2020. From 2013 to December 2020, Mike served as an operating partner and as Portfolio Director for McCarthy Capital. From 1995 to 2014, Mike served in a variety of finance and operational management executive positions at Tenaska, Inc., an energy company. From 1987 to 1995, Mike served at the U.S. Treasury Department in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a National Bank Examiner. Mike earned both a bachelor of science in business administration degree and a master of business administration degree from Creighton University. Mike currently serves on the board of directors of Bridges Holding Company, an investment advisory firm. Mike previously served on the board of directors of Bridges Investment Fund, a general equity fund.

Edward ("Junior") Bryant, Jr. has served as a Director of Guild Holdings Company since October 2020. Since 2018, Junior has served as an Executive Director of Business Development at HGGC, a private equity firm based in Palo Alto, California. Prior to that, from 2011 to 2017, Junior served as the Vice President and National Marketing and Sales Director for Pacific Global Investment Management Company, an investment management firm. Before that, Junior co-founded Smith & Bryant, Inc., a real estate investment company, and served as its Vice President from 1998 to 2010. A veteran of the National Football League, Junior retired from the San Francisco 49ers in 2003 after a 10-year career as a defensive lineman. Junior earned a bachelor degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame. 

Martha E. Marcon has served as a Director of Guild Holdings Company since October 2020. Before her retirement in 2006, Martha was a partner at KPMG LLP, where she served as the firm’s National Resource Partner for the Insurance Industry and as its Western Region Insurance Industry Leader. Since 2008, Martha has served as a director of Mercury General Corporation, a public company engaged primarily in underwriting automobile insurance. She also currently serves as a director of Foresters Financial, an international insurance and financial services firm, and as a member of the board of the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance. Martha earned a bachelor of science degree, summa cum laude, in economics and business administration from Lehigh University.

Gioia Messinger has served as a Director of Guild Holdings Company since July 2022. Since 2012, Gioia has served as founder and principal of LinkedObjects, Inc., a strategic advisory services business focused on digital transformation. From 2004 to 2012, Gioia served as founder and chief executive officer of Avaak, Inc., now Arlo Technologies, a leading home security systems company. From 1989 to 2004, Gioia served as founder and president of SUMMIT Design Technologies, Inc., an engineering services firm. Gioia currently serves on the board of directors of One Stop Systems (NASDAQ:OSS), a provider of high-performance computing used for artificial intelligence (AI), Indyme Solutions, LLC, a provider of AI solutions for the world’s largest retailers, and CARI Health, Inc., a developer of innovative personalized healthcare solutions. She is a member of the dean’s council of advisors at the University of California San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering, and is a member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association. Gioia obtained her master of business administration degree from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine and bachelor of science and master of arts degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

Mary Ann McGarry is a Director of Guild Holdings Company, a position she has held since August 2020. After serving as CEO of Guild Mortgage Company LLC for 16 years, Mary Ann retired in June 2023. From 1988 and until the completion of the Company’s initial public offering in October 2020, Mary Ann was a member of Guild Mortgage Company’s board of directors. Prior to her retirement, Mary Ann served in several leadership positions at Guild Mortgage Company LLC, including as its Chief Executive Officer from December 2007 to June 2023, its President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Mary Ann joined Guild Mortgage Company LLC in 1984 as an internal audit supervisor. Before joining Guild Mortgage Company LLC, Mary Ann worked as a certified public accountant at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Mary Ann currently serves as a member of the board of directors of the Mortgage Bankers Association, an association representing the real estate finance industry, and the Guild Giving Foundation, a non-profit organization. Mary Ann earned a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting with a minor in computer science from the University of San Diego.