In our Hot Topic this week we have Tony Caico founder & president of Affinity Five.
The discussion will focus on finding out if you are in a job/career that aligns with your skillset, dreams, and purpose….
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Tony Caico founder & president of Affinity Five
Graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Business Administration. He started his professional business career in the automotive services industry in 1992 and was quickly elevated to a VP/Division Manager role. He handled forty-five retail stores (and over 200 employees) on the west coast of Florida. That’s also when his recruiting career began, and Caicos’ been recruiting and placing quality talent ever since.
After five successful years in the retail automotive industry, he was recruited by the California upstart company IndyMac Bank to help grow their east coast presence in the mortgage banking space. Tony Caico rapidly rose to the management level. He parlayed his recruiting, sales management, and leadership skills to help start three very successful mortgage banking endeavors. Besides helping IndyMac Bank with its early expansion, he was instrumental in the startup endeavors for both Royal Bank of Canada (2002) and Citigroup (2004). They elevated Tony to Director of Sales for Citigroup’s Home Equity Division in 2004 and built a sales team from eight employees to over two hundred. He handled over $7BB per year in mortgage loan production.
Because of the widely published trials in the mortgage banking industry, Tony Caico exited the financial services space to become a certified professional coach, business consultant, and published author. His first writing project; My Back Nine, was released in 2011. His second book, Restoration by Water’s Edge will be published in 2022.
He started his first company, Affinity5 Coaching & Consulting, in 2011 and was very successful in helping many individuals recalibrate their lives and consulted with over a dozen business clients between 2010 and 2013. Caico re-entered the mortgage banking space as an Executive Recruiter in May 2013. Because of his vast mortgage banking experience and his affinity for sales; much of his recruiting efforts were focused on Production roles in Retail, Wholesale, and Correspondent Mortgage Banking. The levels of searches ranged from President, National Sales, Divisional, Regional, and District Manager roles, to positions such as Branch Manager and Wholesale Account Executive. He has also made placements in Mortgage Servicing, Capital Markets, Vendor Sales, Executive Operations, and many other positions in the financial services industry.
After many years of successful placements in the mortgage banking space, combined with his greatest life mission of helping others, Tony Caico began forming Affinity Five Search Group. He enjoys all sports (especially golf) reading, writing, and traveling. He lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, and has four amazing sons and one beautiful and talented daughter.
Want to know more about Affinity Five?
Affinity Five Search Group’s purpose is to create a distinction in the mortgage banking recruiting space; built on the simple and genuine notion of caring for and helping others. In the dictionary, the word “affinity” is described: A natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, or idea. This is what their company is all about. You could say that they like people helping others and planning strategies for improvements. As they dive deeper into the meaning of the word Affinity, their message has even more pertinent meaning. In scientific terms, we define the word in the following manner: The Phylogenetic (evolutionary relatedness) relationship between two organisms or groups of organisms resulting in a resemblance plan or structure, or in the essential structural parts.
In these terms, their company will focus on the relationship between an individual/company’s goals and the gap that exists between the goal and the desired outcome. At Affinity Five, their purpose and primary function is to identify and uncover talent and to match that talent with their client partners. Last, the number five in their name is for a less than scientific reason; their owner and founder, Tony Caico has five children.