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Carolyn Frank

Carolyn Frank is the Vice President of Human Resources at Guild Mortgage Company, a female-led financial services organization and one of the fastest growing independent mortgage companies in the US. In her role at Guild, Carolyn provides direction to the company’s HR function, executing strategic key initiatives focused on building capabilities within Guild’s workforce.

This includes creating a strong HR foundation to effectively support the organization’s workforce strategy, revamping compensation and benefit systems, and leading a wildly successful corporate university training model. Her efforts have helped support the company’s rapid growth and in Guild being named a Best Places to Work organization in 2015 by the San Diego Union Tribune.

Prior to Guild, Carolyn held progressively responsible HR positions at diverse industries such as Genoptix, Amylin, and Johnson Outdoors Inc. With almost 20 years of human resources experience, she has a strong background in employee relations, talent development and strategic relationship building. Her leadership style has always emphasized the benefits of building strong partnerships to understand the business challenges and opportunities in order to drive transformational programs and services.

Carolyn holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Baldwin Wallace in Greater Cleveland, OH and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management from National University here in San Diego, CA.