Cyrus Khadivi
Founder and CEO
Cyrus Khadivi is the founder and CEO of Torchlight Mortgage Corporation, a professional mortgage corporation with multi-state footprint and operations. Cyrus has collectively been in the mortgage lending, real estate, and technology industries for over 15 years through multiple ventures and companies in executive, leadership, and founder roles.
Cyrus was a founder and Managing Partner of Freedom Lending Group, a multi-state broker and banker based in San Diego, CA. Freedom Lending Group grew to a banker model and funded mortgages throughout 16 different states in the USA. Freedom Lending Group focused on prime and non-prime mortgages and served a wide spectrum of borrowers. He was also an early hire at Ten-X, formerly known as Auction.com and REDC. At Ten-X, Cyrus served various executive and leadership roles in client management, operations, and sales and was a vital component of the company through numerous milestones and liquidity events, eventually amounting to the company’s successful acquisition by CoStar Group (CSGP symbol – NASDAQ and a Fortune 100 Fastest Growing Company).
Cyrus has a keen and deep understanding of sales, operations, business development, and technology. The passion has always been to fundamentally change how Americans achieve financial success through real estate. Cyrus, being a first generation American whose family immigrated to the USA, understands what it takes to work hard, persevere, and succeed in the face of challenge.
Through this intimate knowledge, there is a deep drive that motivates the very existence of Torchlight Mortgage Corporation: the pillars of success are to always place customers as the #1 priority. No matter what. If customers succeed and win, then and only then will Torchlight also succeed and win. More so, Torchlight has a longstanding commitment to invest in technology, digital tools, and its people and culture to drive our costs down while enabling a relentless focus on the customer so we can pass on true, real savings to each and every customer. If we deliver the lowest rates, the lowest costs, the best programs, and an unbelievable, out-of-this-world experience, it is nearly guaranteed that customers will win.
Cyrus is an alumni of University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he graduated with a pre-law bachelor’s degree and later completed a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Paul Merage School of Business at UCI with an emphasis in real estate, strategy, and finance. Cyrus resides in Orange County, CA with his wife, their son, and their other four-legged child (dog).