As President/CEO of One Rose Consulting, Randy Yerkes plays an integral role in the leadership, financial oversight, and strategic direction of the company. Working alongside One Rose’s leadership team, Randy helps ensure the company continues to grow responsibly while maintaining the high standards of service, integrity, and accountability that clients have come to expect.

Randy brings a practical, level-headed approach to business and is often the steady voice behind the decisions that keep One Rose moving forward. He is involved in the financial and operational side of the organization, helping balance new opportunities with the long-term health and stability of the company.

For Randy, doing good business starts with doing business the right way. He shares One Rose’s commitment to honesty, ethical practices, and treating clients and employees with respect. Growth matters—but never at the expense of the values the company was built upon.

As One Rose continues to expand, Randy remains focused on helping build a strong organization behind the scenes so the team can continue delivering the level of service and support clients depend on.

Outside of One Rose: Randy is known for keeping things grounded and putting things into perspective. When everyone else is busy figuring out how to make the next big idea happen, Randy is usually the one asking the very important question: “And exactly how much is this going to cost us?” 

With over 30 years in the mortgage industry, Melinda brings a unique combination of mortgage operations, compliance, licensing, finance, technology, and business strategy to One Rose Consulting, LLC.

As SVP/CEO, Melinda is actively involved in the direction and growth of One Rose, but she is just as comfortable digging into a complicated compliance issue, helping a client work through a regulatory challenge, or finding a better way for the team to get something done. Her philosophy is simple: compliance should support a company’s growth—not stand in the way of it.

Just as important to Melinda is how that work gets done. Trust, honesty, and ethical business practices are non-negotiable. She holds herself and the One Rose team to high standards and believes clients should always be able to trust that the guidance they receive is thoughtful, straightforward, and based on doing what is right—not simply what is easiest.

Melinda holds two master’s degrees, in Finance and Technology Management, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Project Management. She has worked in the mortgage industry since 1993 and understands the business from the inside out—including having been a loan originator herself.

She founded One Rose around a straightforward idea: mortgage companies shouldn’t have to figure everything out alone. Today, she continues to focus on building practical solutions that make licensing and compliance easier for clients while helping them grow their businesses with confidence.

Outside of One Rose: Melinda is an early riser, a problem solver by nature, and admittedly has a hard time leaving a good challenge alone. If someone says, “There has to be a better way to do this,” chances are she is already trying to build it.

As Vice President of One Rose Consulting, Emkat Watkins brings more than 15 years of leadership and management experience, along with extensive expertise in multi-state mortgage licensing, business operations, and corporate structure.

Before entering the mortgage industry, Emkat worked in medical management within a fast-paced hospital environment, where she developed a strong foundation in leadership, operational analysis, resource management, and departmental oversight. Those skills transitioned naturally into the highly regulated and detail-driven world of mortgage licensing and compliance.

At One Rose, Emkat plays a key role in helping clients build, maintain, and grow their businesses. Her experience spans company formation and state registrations, multi-state mortgage licensing, lender and investor approvals and renewals, warehouse line applications, and the ongoing maintenance required to keep companies and their licenses in good standing.

Emkat is particularly skilled at looking beyond the individual task to understand how all the pieces of a client’s business fit together. She combines regulatory knowledge with operational experience to identify more efficient processes, anticipate potential issues, and help clients navigate the often-complicated path from where their business is today to where they want it to go.

Known for being organized, analytical, and solutions-focused, Emkat shares One Rose’s commitment to providing clients with straightforward guidance, dependable service, and the highest standards of integrity.

Emkat’s approach: Understand the goal, know the requirements, build the path forward—and make sure nothing gets lost along the way.

As AVP of Compliance at One Rose Consulting, Rob Knight works closely with clients and the One Rose team to navigate the ever-changing regulatory demands of the mortgage industry.

Rob is involved in a wide range of compliance matters, with a particular focus on regulatory examinations, audits, compliance reviews, and helping clients identify and address potential issues before they become bigger problems. He brings a detailed, methodical approach to his work while understanding that behind every audit, regulation, and deadline is a business that still needs to operate.

Known for being thorough and dependable, Rob believes good compliance is about more than checking boxes. It requires understanding the regulations, recognizing the risks, asking the right questions, and helping clients develop practical solutions that work within their business.

He also shares One Rose’s commitment to doing business with honesty and integrity. Whether working directly with a client, responding to an examiner, or reviewing something behind the scenes, Rob takes seriously the responsibility that comes with being trusted to help protect our clients and their businesses.

Rob’s approach to compliance: Dig into the details, find the issue, figure out the solution—and don’t make something more complicated than it needs to be.

Vickie Mazzei brings a strong background in mortgage compliance, client service, and operations to her role as Account Executive at One Rose Consulting.

With an eye for detail and a client-first approach, Vickie understands that great service is about more than simply getting the job done—it’s about building relationships, earning trust, and making sure clients know they have someone in their corner.

At One Rose, Vickie works closely with clients to understand their businesses, identify their needs, and connect them with the right services and resources to help them succeed. Her experience navigating compliance requirements and detail-intensive processes gives her a valuable perspective when helping clients work through challenges and find practical solutions.

Vickie is known for being approachable, responsive, and genuinely invested in the people she works with. She believes strong client relationships are built through communication, follow-through, and doing what you say you’re going to do—values that fit right in with the One Rose way of doing business.

What Vickie enjoys most about her role: Getting to know our clients, understanding what they’re trying to accomplish, and helping make the complicated parts of the mortgage business feel a little easier.