Commercial mortgage company expands business avenues, plans for succession

Kelly Olivieri Gilliland joined her father at Horizon Mortgage Corp. 18 years ago. Now, with the leader mulling retirement, she's about to face a new set of challenges.

By Grier Ferguson
| 6:00 a.m. April 13, 2018
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Lori Sax. Kelly Olivieri Gilliland is the executive vice president of Horizon Mortgage Corp.

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In high school, Kelly Olivieri Gilliland loved chemistry. She thought she would go into medicine.

Today, the executive vice president of Horizon Mortgage Corp. isn’t a medical doctor. But her father, N.J. Olivieri, president of the company, says the work they do in the commercial mortgage industry is similar. “It’s like being a good doctor,” he says. “You see what the problem is and try to solve it.”