Jeff attended Texas Tech University before graduating from Centenary College, where he received a BS in Business and Minor in Political Science while playing collegiate baseball.

After graduation, Jeff launched his career in Dallas, where he began his specialization in real estate as a commercial real estate appraiser working toward his MAI designation and earning his Texas Real Estate Broker License and General State Certified Appraiser License in Texas, California, and Arkansas. That eventually lead to his founding of Cornerstone Appraisal, Inc. in Dallas and Los Angeles. After time in the acting profession appearing in television and film such as Strong Against Crime, Strong Kids Against Crime, Walker Texas Ranger, Jeff moved to Colorado Springs where he helped orchestrate expansion of PNC Mortgage Corp. and eventually Benchmark Bank/Stratford Mortgage into the Colorado area as a loan officer and Branch Manager. Soon afterward, his expanding and company development expertise allowed relocation to Arkansas where he worked as Regional Manager for Cornerstone Mortgage before forming

Contex Appraisal and Colonial Mortgage, LLC.

Jeff was a Board Member of the NW Arkansas Home Builders Association, Committee Member of Arkansas Metro Board of Realtors and also a tenured Board Member of the Curtis Coleman Institute for Constitutional Policy, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to educating

Americans about the Constitution of the United States of America. Presently serving as Chairman of Servants Heart and in his 7th year as a Coordinator for Special Olympics Area 3, Jeff continues to oversee and proudly expand highly visible annual events for youth and adults with special needs in partnership with the University of Arkansas Athletic Department.

Mara was born in Newington, CT and graduated from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT in 1993, with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Communications. She has lived in

Bentonville, AR, for the past 20 years.

Mara began her career in the mortgage industry in 1993 as a loan officer assistant with Sears Mortgage Banking Group, which was acquired by PNC Bank Corp later that same year. In November of 1997, Mara left Connecticut and relocated to Colorado Springs, CO where she assisted in the opening of a branch office for PNC Mortgage Corp, as a Marketing Assistant. In 1998 she helped on opening a branch office for Stratford Mortgage/Benchmark Bank, also in Colorado Springs, where she began her underwriter career.

Mara left Colorado in 1999 relocated to Bentonville, Arkansas where she and her husband opened Colonial Mortgage, LLC. As an owner and senior underwriter with over 30 years in the mortgage industry, she brings vast knowledge and experience to the table.