loanDepot Leadership

TJ Freeborn

TJ Freeborn is the Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer at loanDepot. In this role, TJ leads customer experience, enterprise creative, communications and public relations practices for the company, as well as serves as a strategic partner on enterprise-wide cross-functional initiatives. TJ also co-manages loanDepot philanthropic and community outreach efforts and is one of the team leaders of the annual War Heroes on Water Tournament, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Veterans' services since inception.

TJ brings more than 25 years of financial services experience, and more than a decade of focused home lending expertise, to her role at loanDepot. Before joining the company, TJ held leadership positions at Discover Financial Services, wherein she led home equity loan operations and servicing, as well as oversaw marketing acquisition, customer experience and creative development for Discover’s mortgage products. Prior to Discover, TJ served as Vice President, Marketing at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. In this role, TJ was responsible for branding and creative development and was a key partner on cross-functional company regulatory and strategic initiatives, such as the SAFE Act implementation and multi-channel marketing-on-demand platform launches.

TJ is a graduate of Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was a founding member of the college’s Logos Honors Program.