Leadership: Jay Barbour, president; Amber Stamsta, controller

Website: vipmtginc.com

What it does: Mortgage company funding in excess of $1.5 billion annually.

How it leads: SPEAR is VIP’s customer relationship manager platform – the first of its kind in the mortgage industry — and is putting VIP on another level in terms of customer care and eliminates duplication across the process. The system helped VIP grow the company’s volume from $1 billion in 2014 to $1.5 billion in 2015 with less originators and operations’ employees touching the loans. VIP is on track to double that number in 2016.

Honor the 2017 Industry Leaders of Arizona at the awards ceremony and dinner on Feb. 23 at the JW Marriott Camelback Inn. Purchase tickets here.