Alan Fowler, CMB, is the Director of Industry Relations for Garris Horn, LLP, a nationally renowned law firm for mortgage bankers, and is the founder and Principal of Fowler Financial Education and Consulting, LLC, a company he founded in 2009 to offer NMLS education. Most of Alan’s 44 year has been as an executive of full-service, independent Mortgage Banks and Credit Unions. He is active with MBA and is the New Mexico State Ambassador. Alan is also a recipient of the E. Michael Rosser, CMB, Lifetime Achievement Award, is a Master Faculty Fellow for the School of Mortgage Banking and has served or is currently serving as Chair of the State and Local Committee, the CMB Society, the Credit Union Network and the Loan Production Committee. Alan is also the Founder and President of The Forum, a Think Tank of national leaders in Real Estate Finance. Alan has also served as the President of the New Mexico Mortgage Lenders Association (1991 & 2012), Chairman of the New Mexico Small Business Investment Corporation, and President of the American Alliance of Loan Management. Alan is also on the Board of Directors for the Ocotillo Foundation, X-Factor Ministries, Gracious Ministries and the Anderson School of Management Alumni Association at the University of New Mexico. He has been married to his wife, Heather, for 35 years and they have two adult children, one of whom was wise enough not to go into the mortgage business.