Fleet Mortgage Taps Ackerman For Job of Retail Production Chief

Fleet Mortgage Group has promoted former Home Savings of America executive Howard Ackerman to senior vice president of retail loan production.

Mr. Ackerman was a senior vice president at Home Savings in Irwindale, Calif., responsible for training and sales operations of the company's 500 retail loan originators and sales managers.

He joined Fleet in November, a month after Washington Mutual Inc. bought Home Savings' parent, H.F. Ahmanson & Co. At Fleet he was most recently vice president and production support manager.

Before coming to Home Savings, Mr. Ackerman was president of BA Appraisals, a residential real estate appraisal company he had founded in northern N.J.

Fleet Mortgage Group, based in Columbia, S.C., is a unit of $128 billion-asset Fleet Financial Group of Boston. Mr. Ackerman is based in the unit's Glen Rock, N.J. office.

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