Stuart Brafman

Stuart Brafman

Stuart Brafman is a retired executive.  During most of his 33-year career, he focused upon the financial guaranty industry.  Brafman was the cofounder and chief operating officer of Amerin Guaranty Corporation, which pioneered a new form of private residential mortgage insurance.  Previously, Brafman was a senior executive of MGIC, the nation’s leading private home mortgage insurer, where he initiated and managed subsidiaries that financed a wide variety of real estate projects and guaranteed commercial real estate mortgages and leases, mobile home loans, and housing loans in Australia.

During the several years after leaving MGIC and before establishing Amerin, Brafman resolved a large troubled commercial real estate loan portfolio for a major Midwestern bank and served on the Advisory Board of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.  Subsequently, he was chief regulatory officer for the Office of Thrift Supervision’s central region during the savings and loan crises.

Brafman divides his time between Colorado and Maryland respectively and is a long time participant in the Aspen Institute’s programs in both locals.