Bryan Dornan is a mortgage industry veteran, digital marketing strategist, and financial journalist with nearly 30 years of experience as a loan officer, mortgage broker, and chief marketing officer. He is the founder of Lead Planet, a mortgage lead generation company that has supplied banks, lenders, and brokers with first-party internet mortgage leads across all 50 states since the late 1990s, and the founder and Chief Editor of RefiGuide.org, a consumer lending education platform launched in 2008. His work combines hands-on lending experience with organic SEO, paid search, and analytics-driven campaign strategy. Bryan is a licensed California Real Estate Broker (DRE #01203791) and writes for RealtyTimes, Patch, BuzzFeed, Medium, and other national publications. His focus is educating homeowners on using home equity responsibly while promoting affordable homeownership across the United States.