ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Janice (Roe) Smith ’75 & ‘77 is currently the Managing Director and Line of Business Executive for the Real Estate Structured Finance Servicing Group for Bank of America, a division of Global Markets, the fourth largest commercial loan servicer in the country servicing approximately $135 billion in loans.
Janice attended CCM in the 1970’s, earning an A.A.S. in Office Systems Technology and an A.A. in Humanities/Social Science. She served on the Judicial Board, then worked in the Student Activities Office. She transferred to Seton Hall University, earning a B.A. in Sociology. While at Seton Hall, Janice worked as night manager of the Student Center at CCM, and was instrumental in the initial coordination of the CCM Alumni Association and early publication of its newsletter, the Alumni Advocate. Her fond memories of CCM include CCM’s small size, her time in student government; and meeting and interacting with students, staff and professors. At a formative time of life, CCM helped her realize her strengths, independence, and her awareness that life is what you make it, and personal responsibility. Her experience taught her management skills that she has used everyday since then.
Janice began her commercial real estate career with David Cronheim Mortgage Company, in Chatham, NJ. She eventually headed the commercial loan servicing and closing areas, managing a loan portfolio of just under $1 billion for more than a dozen institutional investors. In 1994, she was hired by Chemical Bank, which became Chase Manhattan Bank and then JPMorgan Chase. Janice built a commercial loan servicing platform for Chase rated by Fitch and Standard & Poor’s, which she headed as Senior Vice President between 1994 and 2001. In 2001, after the JP Morgan/Chase merger, Janice left to join Bank of America and moved to Charlotte, NC, to manage and build out its capital markets servicing platform, which she reorganized and relocated from Los Angeles to Charlotte, NC. Janice arrived in Charlotte on Labor Day, 2001, five days later, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, and for 36 months thereafter, she managed the special servicing of the 7 World Trade Center bonds.
She owns a 52-acre horse farm, The Inn at Rosehill & Rosehill Stables, just outside of Charlotte, NC, which is a full-service boarding and training facility promoting the Friesian horse. Rosehill Stables provides lessons and training in the discipline of dressage, and provides an Equine Facilitated Learning program dedicated to helping individuals improve their emotional and mental health and overcome traumatic experiences. Janice plans to build a bed and breakfast at Rosehill within the next two years, enhanced by the backdrop of the horse farm, where she can host weddings, executive retreats, and travelers and horse owners participating in Rosehill’s equestrian activities. She plans to run the Inn when she retires.
Janice is divorced and has an 18 year old son, Andrew, who is the love of her life, and who will be graduating high school and entering college in New Jersey in 2011.