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Leadership
Meet our leadership
John R. H. Cotter | President and Chief Executive Officer
John has guided Passport Title from a one-state title company serving a select group of attorneys to a leading title enterprise serving attorneys, title agents and title agency owners across eight states and Washington, D.C.
John has been involved in the title industry since the 1990's. He has a demonstrated track record of innovation having built title company business models that anticipate market changes. He was a pioneer of affiliated business arrangements in the Mid-Atlantic where he established over 50 AfBA title companies.
After working in leadership positions for large, multi-state title companies, John founded Passport Title in 2005. Recognizing a shifting landscape, early in 2008 he introduced an industry-first title agency partnering solution to support attorneys and title agents who faced business challenges following the global financial crisis. Based on successfully serving attorneys and title agents, he expanded the solution set to now support title agency owners, too.
John was born in Venezuela, raised in Bahrain and educated in England before coming to America, where he graduated from the University of Maryland. A Maryland licensed title producer, John now works across Passport Title's multi-state footprint and calls South Carolina home.
Learn more about John's story here.
Call: (240) 542-1920
Connect: LinkedIn
Email: [email protected]
Jennifer Johnston | VP of Commerical Processing
Jennifer has been working in the title industry since 2000, where she started in Rockville, Maryland clearing title.
Since then, she has handled every aspect of the title process within a title office for both residential and commercial transactions. After the market crash of 2008, she continued pursuing education and licensing in multiple states and immersed herself in technology as it became clear to her that technology was becoming critical to the industry. In 2018, she joined Passport Title Services LLC as a Net Branch Partner, heading up the Tennessee State Division. Jennifer now handles Passport Title's Commercial Processing.
Call: (865) 463-1016
Email: [email protected]
James Y. Becker | Outside General Counsel
Jamie Becker is an attorney with Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. in Columbia, SC.
He and his colleagues in the firm have broad experience in real estate transactions and litigation involving all types of commercial and residential real estate. Jamie is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of South Carolina School of Law.
He has practiced law for over 30 years, and prior to law, he worked as an asset manager for a publicly traded real estate investment trust and at his own commercial real estate services firm.
Call: 803-540-7706
Email: [email protected]