Making Mortgages Better

Sarah Valentini, Co-Founder

There's no doubt that leading one of the area’s top woman-lead business is ambitious. But what truly drives Sarah is not a plaque on the wall or reaching the top of the corporate ladder. It’s meeting others’ needs. As a child, she watched her mother use entrepreneurship as outreach. Whether the need was employment, friendship or a good example, she saw how owning your own business could be used to meet it. Today, she has created a person-centric culture which embodies her vision of what mortgage lending should be.

Keith Polaski, Co-Founder and COO

Drawing from his military background, it was Keith who established the radius standard-shattering processing and underwriting goals by asking seasoned underwriters how quickly a quality loan can be completed, rather than following the laissez-faire approach of most lending institutions.

In Keith’s view, radius should set such a high standard that employees of any industry are drawn to the workplace culture and the high service level so that competitors are compelled to improve their own.

Sue Goodrich, SVP of Operations

Sue Goodrich is a leading mortgage professional with over 20 years’ experience in residential lending.

She began her mortgage career in 1992 with GMAC Mortgage Corporation. Highly regarded for her superior planning and operations ability she advanced quickly while at GMAC. She reunited with Sarah Valentini and Keith Polaski  when she joined radius financial group inc. in 1999.

Sue has been with radius since its inception, working as the senior vice president of mortgage operations. Her efforts have created an operations system at radius that is efficient, accurate and always working to create raving fans.

Sue holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Bryant College in Smithfield, RI.

Michael Clark, Chief Financial Officer

Mike Clark is the Chief Financial Officer at radius financial group, inc. As CFO, Mike is responsible for the company's accounting, reporting, financial planning and investing/financing activities. He also leads capital markets including all hedging trading and investor/agency relationships and works with senior leadership on all strategic matters.

Mike came to radius in early 2022 a seasoned financial professional whose career catalog includes private equity, portfolio, and public companies across all origination channels. He began his career at Grant Thornton working in assurance services for a variety of industries including mortgage banking. 

Mike holds a BBA from Florida Atlantic University and is a CPA. He lives with his wife, three children and two dogs in South Florida, enjoys working out and making ski trips with family and friends to the mountains.

Richard Codair, SVP of Sales/Regional Manager

Dick Codair is an experienced mortgage professional with over 30 years of loan origination and sales management experience exclusively within retail mortgage banking, giving him a unique perspective and motivation each day to make a difference.

Dick spent the majority of his career at GMAC Mortgage, where he started as a loan officer, advanced to branch manager and then regional vice president over the span of 18 years. Well known for his solid track record of building top performing sales teams, he reunited with radius principals, Sarah Valentini and Keith Polaski to head up the radius sales team.

As the senior vice president of retail production at radius, Dick challenges each loan officer to achieve their personal best, resulting in a better mortgage experience for radius customers and referral partners alike.

Dick holds a Bachelor’s of the Arts in Computer Science from Saint Anselm College. In his free time he enjoys spending time with family and friends, golfing and visiting Lake Winnipesaukee.

Dustin DeMeritt, Director of Marketing

Dustin is a Kansas native and received his Bachelor’s degree in Business/Communications from San Diego State University. Throughout his career, Dustin has had immense brand experience with well-known companies such as American Express, Chase, KRAFT foods, Red Sox and TripAdvisor.com.

While living out West, Dustin worked for Bulldog Drummond, A Damn Fine Ad Agency in San Diego, CA and expanded the company’s revenue through content curation, facilitation development, and brand, product and experience design. Dustin got his start at radius when he moved East in 2002. Since that time, he has also worked as the Regional Vice President of Rockland Trust, Director of Marketing for Sodexo and as Senior Solutions Director for Dun & Bradstreet. In 2015, Dustin found his way back to radius as Head of Marketing. He’s currently responsible for elevating radius’ marketing initiatives and creating strategies to fuel the company’s explosive growth.

In his free time, Dustin enjoys relaxing in his Duxbury, MA home with his wife, Lisa, and his two kids, Devin & Emily, watching college football or wrapping up the weekend by the campfire. He also loves traveling, having impromptu dinners with neighbors, and being the proud owner of a pontoon boat!

David O'Connor, Chief Technology Officer

Along with a keen understanding of the mortgage industry, O’Connor brings extensive risk management, compliance, business process transformation, organizational goal setting and technical planning to his position as Chief Technology Officer at radius financial group. Before joining radius, O’Connor held the same position of CTO at Poli Mortgage, where his principal function was to integrate new technologies and applications that greatly improved process efficiencies, which he attributes to proper system management.
David O’Connor’s career in the mortgage industry began over 19 years ago and took the path of specializing on the IT side of the business, which he has done for the last 17 years. O’Connor currently resides in Easton with his wife Stephanie and his two boys, Logan and Travis.