The story
behind the company.
Josh didn't stumble into mortgage. He chose it.
After building a foundation in enterprise technology sales at IBM — consultative, high-stakes, relationship-driven — Josh hit a ceiling that had nothing to do with his performance. At a company that size, the gap between a top producer and an average one didn't show up in your paycheck. Time was the only currency that moved the needle, and that was never going to be enough.
Mortgage fixed that instantly. Every skill IBM built — reading people, understanding long-term needs, structuring complex solutions — translated directly. He became a top-producing loan officer quickly, and spent the next several years inside every kind of shop that existed: large retail lenders with great technology and suffocating overlays, boutique brokers with incredible pricing and outdated systems, branch models that promised autonomy and delivered bureaucracy.
He took notes on all of it.
"Built the company. Still closes the deals. There's a reason for that."
— Josh Jankelow · President, Olympus Financial · NMLS #1857361
Olympus Financial was founded in 2023 as the answer to everything that was wrong with every shop he'd been in. Correspondent lending capability and broker flexibility under one roof. 80+ investors. Technology built to the standard he demanded from day one. No middle management. No unnecessary overlays. No compromising a client's deal to protect someone else's margin.
The motto — built by loan officers, for loan officers — wasn't marketing. It was the point.
Today Josh still originates alongside the team he's built. Not because he has to. Because he chooses to. At this point in his career, he's the first to tell you: one mortgage doesn't change his life. What changes his life is the relationship that comes after it — the refinance, the next purchase, the referral to a friend, the introduction to a Realtor. That's the business he's in. That's the standard every interaction is held to.
If you want sharp, honest, and available — someone who understands your long-term goals before recommending a single product — you're in the right place.
