Angela Bauknecht

To keep its internal wheels in motion and the trains running on time, BankSouth Mortgage relies on Angela Bauknecht, its senior vice president and operations manager. Angela possesses more than 20 years of mortgage lending and operations experience, including one of her first position as a loan processor for Sun America Mortgage. As BankSouth Mortgage’s operations manager, Angela oversees BankSouth Mortgage’s operations staff of 50+ individuals, including loan processors, underwriters and underwriting liaisons, and set-up assistants. Angela is also responsible for staffing, training, and productivity.

Prior to her tenure at BankSouth Mortgage, Angela served as the regional operations manager for SunTrust Mortgage, where she managed SunTrust Atlanta retail operations staff across multiple office locations. While at SunTrust, Angela also managed the processing of an average of 500 loans for approximately $140 million per month, consistently remaining in the top five of 20+ divisions for productivity. During her career, Angela has also held additional positions in operations and processing at SunTrust, as well as at Sun America Mortgage, which was purchased by SunTrust in 2003 and officially changed its name in 2007.

Angela is graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in real estate and minors in mathematics and psychology. Angela and her husband, Garth, live in Marietta and have two grown children, one finishing college and one finishing graduate school.