Unity Trust Bank has announced the appointment of a new chief commercial officer, Alexandra Rice, who will be leading the bank’s customer facing operations across commercial, marketing and digital services. Alexandra has 20 years’ banking experience across Barclays, Coutts and most recently Santander. In that time, she’s held numerous senior leadership positions including industry corporate […]
The British Business Bank has appointed Edward Tellwright to the role of senior manager for the South West. Edward brings many years of experience of working with smaller businesses in the region to access finance. Edward started his career with an angel network in the South West, supporting businesses to raise more than £70m. Before […]
Leading Thames Valley law firm, Gardner Leader, has appointed David Beckwith as its finance director, marking another significant step in the firm’s sustainable growth plans. Gardner Leader has been at the heart of the Berkshire community for over 120 years, with offices in Newbury, Thatcham and Maidenhead. It has gone on to triple in size over […]
The British Business Bank has appointed Eilish Jamieson and Matthew Elderfield as non-executive directors (NEDs) to the board of British Business Bank plc, effective from 21 and 22 November 2022 respectively. Eilish Jamieson is an experienced audit and finance professional with over 25 years’ experience working in financial services, and more recently serving on public […]
Business funding provider Accelerated Payments (AP) has made another strategic appointment in the UK as it ramps up its expansion plans. Siobhan Jones has joined as business development manager and will be supporting the company’s growth and customer acquisition strategies for alternative financing services in the North of England. Prior to joining Accelerated Payments, Siobhan […]
Specialist lender Cambridge & Counties Bank has expanded its real estate team by almost a third in 2022, the highest influx of new real estate professionals in any one year since the bank began operating in 2012. In total, there are now 31 individuals in the bank’s UK team, up from 24 at the start […]
Specialist lending firm Somo Bridging is preparing for further growth in 2023 with the appointment of two new senior business development managers and a sales support administrator. The new senior business development managers, Nicola Hardy and Sarah Kirk, ran a specialist finance brokerage together for five years before joining Somo and bring with them decades […]
Lisa Quest has today been appointed head of UK with responsibility for Ireland at global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh McLennan. In her new role, Lisa will take over from David Gillespie on 1 January 2023 and report to Christian Edelmann, managing partner, Europe, and will lead the firm’s UK and Ireland […]
NatWest Group has today announced the appointment of Mark Brant as chief payments officer (CPO). Mark will join on 16 January 2023. Mark has over 25 years’ experience working across the payments industry, both within the UK and abroad. In addition to spending time in senior leadership and executive positions at American Express and PayPal, […]
Leading Yorkshire accountancy firm BHP has announced 75 promotions to end the year. The promotions span all levels of the business with new appointments including one partner, two directors, three senior managers and five managers. The promotions will boost BHP’s audit and accounts, corporate finance, healthcare and tax teams. The news comes after BHP reported […]
