Casey Crawford is the co-founder and CEO of Movement Mortgage, a top 10 national retail mortgage lender and six-time member of the Inc. 5000 list. Movement originated $30 billion in residential mortgages in 2020 and gave $200 million of its profit to the Movement Foundation. Casey is also the chairman of Movement Bank and founder and chairman of Movement Schools, a network of tuition-free public charter schools providing world-class academics and character education in underserved neighborhoods.

Based on his belief that a business should be judged not by what it extracts from a community, but rather, by how much it gives, Casey founded the nonprofit Movement Foundation as a vehicle to bring life, light and hope to others. To date, it has received $260 million of company profit to invest in schools, communities and nonprofits around the world.

Casey has been recognized as a John Maxwell Transformational Leadership Award recipient, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, HousingWire Vanguard award recipient, and a Charlotte Business Journal Most Admired CEO. He has been featured by national media outlets, including CNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Fox Business, Inc. Magazine and HousingWire.

A Super Bowl champion, Casey played tight end for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2000-2003. He graduated from the University of Virginia with All-ACC honors in football and academics. Casey is an avid outdoorsman and accomplished Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor. He lives outside Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Michelle, and daughters, Cadie and Josie.