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Sheila Squier

Resource Development Team Member

Sheila Squier has expertise in program and project management support, event planning and logistics, nonprofit partner relationship management, and communication and administrative support functions. Sheila has worked as a National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) Grant Reviewer and on projects such as Foreclosure Intervention Event Support for the HopeNow Alliance and Let’s Invest for Tomorrow (LIFT) for NeighborWorks America.

Collin O’Rourke

Senior Research Analyst

Collin O’Rouke is a senior research specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security where he completed his masters in Public Affairs.  He is a research consultant for PolicyLabs Consulting, where he consults on program implementation and evaluation in the areas of financial coaching, counseling, and education for vulnerable populations.  

Julie St. Jean

New Market Associate

Julie St. Jean is a grant writing and program design consultant for nonprofit and government agencies on foreclosure and pre-purchase counseling programs. She is a former program director at Neighborhood Housing Service of Los Angeles County and NeighborWorks America.

Scott Freeze

Chief Operating Officer

Scott Freeze is an experienced project leader, product manager, analyst, and business intelligence manager with more than 20 years of increasing responsibility working within the financial services, consulting, retail, healthcare, and distribution industries. He is known for innovative concepts, highly successful business process improvement initiatives, executive-level reporting and analytics, and overall project management focus.

Katie Gottschall Donohue

VP of Strategy and Customer Engagement

Katie Gottschall Donohue works directly with new and existing subscribers, creates messaging and marketing activities, and oversees reporting and data analytics. Katie has more than 10 years of experience working with nonprofit affordable housing agencies and financial institutions. She has held a variety of roles ranging from directing training and technical assistance activities for housing developers and housing counseling agencies to conducting strategic communications with investor banks and other stakeholder groups.

Cassandra Compton

VP of Data Integrity and User Experience 

Cassandra Compton leads the SpringFour Data Integrity Process and team and ensures that all resources are vetted and accurate. Cassandra is an experienced translator and is responsible for the translation of all SpringFour records into Spanish. She manages the professional data team of college-educated, nonprofit experienced, and detail-oriented professionals who continuously check SpringFour resources for accuracy and add more than 1,000 new resources to the SpringFour database every year.

Dr. J. Michael Collins, Ph.D.

Co-Founder 

Dr. Collins is a nationally recognized expert in the loss mitigation/foreclosure industry and professor of Consumer Finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His studies on consumer behavior insights focus on the role of information in consumer decision-making, especially for low-income households. Michael has studied consumers in the financial marketplace for more than a decade and has published many articles on consumer responses to foreclosure, the role of default counseling, and the effects of consumer protection policies.

Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey

Co-Founder, President & CEO 

Rochelle has more than 20 years of experience in public policy, government relations, homeownership and asset building fields through her consulting and employment. She has a bachelor’s degree from James Madison College of Michigan State University and a Masters in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Under Rochelle’s leadership, SpringFour became a Certified B Corporation, of which only 2,200 such organizations exist worldwide, won the 2015 Promontory Financial Group’s Empowerment Award for Financial Innovation, was a finalist for Google for Entrepreneur’s program for Women Founders and was selected for the WiSTEM program at 1871, Chicago’s Center for Technology and Entrepreneurship and was chosen as the Top Venture for the Points of Light Civic Accelerator Spring 2017 program. SpringFour was one of six fintech companies chosen for the BMO Harris/1871 Fintech Partnership Program and in 2017 was a finalist for the BAI Global Innovation Award for its work with U.S. Bank, Chicago’s Fifty on Fire Award and the Midwest Women in Tech’s Fintech Award. In 2018, SpringFour was named by FinXTEch/Bank Director as a finalist for the Most Innovative Solution of the Year for its work with U.S. Bank.