Chelsea McGowan is modernizing housing finance where it matters most: scale with control. As the leader behind Redwood’s core platforms for Sequoia, CoreVest and Aspire, she has unified data, systems and automation across the organization—building a modern, secure infrastructure that accelerates decisions, strengthens controls and enhances customer and investor experiences.
Under McGowan’s leadership, Redwood has deployed automated document intelligence and due diligence technology that streamlines underwriting, routes exceptions, accelerates funding and improves capital turnover. These advancements allow Redwood to process more loans faster without compromising its hallmark prudence. She partners across business units to align technology initiatives with measurable outcomes, freeing capacity in Jumbo operations through targeted automation and enabling larger deal flow with consistent oversight.
McGowan’s influence extends across Redwood’s businesses. For Sequoia, she modernized loan due diligence, enabling fourfold scalability. For Aspire, she strengthened data management through structured data contracts, lineage tracking and near-real-time pipelines that feed portfolio analytics. In CoreVest, her teams have reimagined workflow from deal intake to closing through intelligent queue orchestration.
Her leadership philosophy is rooted in shared ownership between business and technology, fostering cross-functional teams that measure success by adoption and impact. McGowan’s work exemplifies Redwood’s vision—combining considerable scale with humanity and efficiency. By operationalizing automation and elevating data integrity, she is setting the foundation for resilient, transparent and scalable housing solutions that serve borrowers, partners and investors alike.
Name:
Chelsea McGowan
Title:
Senior Vice President, Business Systems and Corporate Technology
Company Name:
Redwood Trust, Inc.
