Daniel "Dan" Gilbert (born January 17, 1962 in Detroit, Michigan) is the Chairman and Founder of Quicken Loans Inc. and Rock Financial, as well as the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Gilbert founded Rock Financial in 1985 with his younger brother, film producer Gary Gilbert, their childhood friend Lindsay Gross and Ron Berman. Dan was a first-year law student. Gilbert, then 23 years old, served as the ...
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Daniel "Dan" Gilbert (born January 17, 1962 in Detroit, Michigan) is the Chairman and Founder of Quicken Loans Inc. and Rock Financial, as well as the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Gilbert founded Rock Financial in 1985 with his younger brother, film producer Gary Gilbert, their childhood friend Lindsay Gross and Ron Berman. Dan was a first-year law student. Gilbert, then 23 years old, served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. Rock Financial grew into one of the largest independent mortgage companies in the country. In May 1998, Gilbert took the company public. Initially a brick and mortar lender, the company launched “Rockloans.com” in January 1999, which quickly positioned itself as the leader in online retail mortgage lenders.
In December 1999, Intuit Inc. (makers of TurboTax and Quicken) purchased Rock Financial. The national web operation was renamed "Quicken Loans" and grew substantially as the leading provider of direct...
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