Owen Lee, CEO of Plymouth, Michigan-based Success Mortgage Partners Inc. (SMP), was nominated to become the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) vice chairman for the 2025 membership year.
Lee will be installed as vice chairman at the MBA’s 111th Annual Convention in Denver in October. After serving a year as vice chairman, Lee will become chairman-elect in the 2026 membership year and chairman in 2027.
Lee co-founded SMP with his father, Vincent, in 2002. He is also managing member of Title Partners LLC, a full-service title insurance and escrow services agency. Lee serves on MBA’s board of directors, is co-chairman of its Independent Mortgage Bankers Executive Council, and is currently the 2023-2024 chairman of MORPAC, MBA’s political action committee. He is also a board member of The Mortgage Collaborative’s Technology Fund, a venture capital investment group specializing in the mortgage technology space.
“It is my honor to welcome Owen Lee, an exemplary leader and prominent voice in the real estate finance industry, to MBA’s leadership ladder,” said Mark Jones, 2024 MBA chairman and president of Union Home Mortgage. “For years, Owen has been one of MBA’s most active members, and I am confident his innate ability to influence, endless energy, and relentless passion in pushing for positive change will lead to successful outcomes for homeowners, renters, and our membership.”
