Jake Shannon is a veteran entrepreneur; with experience in startup and early stage venture formation, in addition to serving as Assistant Vice President at Financial Freedom during their dramatic growth as an industry leader in reverse mortgage.

    Jake has also been a key resource in model development and performance improvement, having created among the first reverse mortgage servicing rights valuation models during his time as Assistant Vice President at Financial Freedom and its parent, Indymac Bank (now OneWest Bank). He continued to innovate in model development at Reverse Market Insight, extending and enhancing the methodologies for reverse mortgage asset valuation to keep RMI at the cutting edge of the industry and utilizing RMI’s exclusive data repository of reverse mortgage performance data.

    Jake previously founded a number of businesses, including web publishing, media and rights management ventures. In addition to roles at Financial Freedom and Indymac Bank, Jake has worked in financial analysis and statistical roles at Trinity Capital, Financial Engineering Associates, and Abacus Direct.

    Jake has championed liberty-based alternatives since his days attending the University of Colorado at Boulder (which he attended on a leadership scholarship from the President's Leadership Class) in the early 1990s. In 2002, he earned his Master of Science in Financial Engineering (i.e., computational finance or financial mathematics) from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. While in graduate school Jake received scholarships to attend both the Public Choice Economics Outreach Program at George Mason University and the Austrian Economics Seminar Colloquium at New York University at New York University.

    Having enjoyed success as a family man, author, entrepreneur, quantitative analyst, and cancer survivor, Jake now seeks to bring his problem solving skills to the United States House of Representatives to dramatically reduce the role of government in our everyday lives.