The team

Built by operators, not tourists.

We build from inside the industries we automate. The people behind Agency Age have originated the loans, run the divisions, and shipped the software — not studied them from a distance.

Founder · CEO · Head of Engineering

Nicholas Petrillo

Twenty-plus years a mortgage executive, Nicholas built enterprise lending divisions and pioneered reverse-mortgage operations from the inside. A licensed MLO (NMLS #1181611) who still writes loans, he is ORA's customer zero: he designs and codes the platform he uses every day. He leads engineering and AI across the holding company.

20+ yrs mortgage Enterprise division builder Reverse-mortgage pioneer Licensed MLO Head developer AI

Business Development & Strategic Relationships

Denise Antell-Romano

Denise brings nearly 15 years partnering with CEOs, founders, boards, and senior executives to drive strategic initiatives, manage key stakeholder relationships, and support organizational growth. Most recently she worked alongside the CEO of Feigen Advisors, a strategic advisory firm serving Fortune 250 and other leading global companies.

Her expertise spans executive relationship management, strategic outreach, project execution, and business operations across a range of industries, coordinating high-level engagements and navigating complex business environments.

At Agency Age she leads business development, client engagement, strategic partnerships, and the relationship-building that expands ORA's adoption across the mortgage industry.

Director of Communications

Richard Bonnet

Richard is a Newhouse-trained, award-winning broadcaster — honored for broadcast journalism, radio production, and copywriting — who spent a decade at SiriusXM co-creating channels and flagship shows from zero — including RUSH / Fight Nation (Ch. 156), the first channel built for combat sports — booking talent, training engineers, and helping land distribution deals with partners like USA Today. As Director of Communications he builds Agency Age's voice the same way: owned media, audiences, and the category story for the age of agency, stood up from scratch and produced end to end in-house.

Channel & show creationAudience buildingMedia partnershipsMulti-format productionBroadcast journalism

Front-End & Database Engineering

Vladimir Pavlovich

Vladimir brings 20+ years building front-end experiences and the databases beneath them — fluent across C++, Rust, Python, and PHP, with data systems spanning Convex and Postgres, plus red-team security analysis.

He engineered some of the earliest software integrations across the mortgage, real-estate, and title-insurance industries — connecting platforms like Calyx Point, RamQuest, MeridianLink, ReverseVision, and call-center dialers. At Agency Age he owns ORA's front-end and data layer.

C++RustPythonPHPConvexPostgresRed-team analysisSystems integration

Governance & board

A board with the right edges.

A holding company is a discipline of capital and a read on a market. Our board pairs independent financial governance with deep reverse-mortgage authority — the numbers watched by a CPA, the product kept honest by someone who has served seniors for two decades.

Board Member · CPA

Tyler Finn

Levine & Schmutter CPA LLP · Garden City, NY

Tyler is a Certified Public Accountant with Levine & Schmutter CPA LLP. On the Agency Age board he brings financial governance and audit-grade oversight to a company built to own and compound multiple software businesses — guiding structure and tax, validating the economics behind ORA's per-graduation pricing, and keeping the company diligence-ready for investors and acquirers.

Financial governanceAudit & controlsMulti-entity taxUnit economicsDiligence-readiness

Board Member · Reverse-Mortgage Authority

Cece Delgado

Reverse-Mortgage Specialist · 20+ years · NMLS #269059

Cece has spent 20+ years and more than 1,000 clients helping seniors turn home equity into security — an authority in HECM, proprietary and jumbo products, reverse seconds, and home-equity strategy. On the Agency Age board she is the voice of the field: ground-truth on what loan officers, referral partners, and senior borrowers actually need, and a compliance-and-care compass for software built around one of lending's most sensitive products. Her practice runs on clarity, care, and community.

Reverse-mortgage authorityVoice of the fieldSenior-borrower advocacyReferral & market insightCompliance & care

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