Authors
Bridging Loan Authors
Our collection of contributors
Laura Miller
Laura Miller is a freelance journalist who writes about money and business. She regularly appears in UK national and trade newspapers and magazines, and has previously worked for ITV News and the Telegraph among others. Find her on twitter @thatlaurawrites
Leah Milner
Leah Milner is an award-winning money, property and consumer affairs journalist who has written for titles across the national and trade press. She is also passionate about improving mental health awareness and regularly speaks on the subject at events. You can follow Leah on Twitter @leahmilner.
Helen Crane
Helen Crane is a freelance journalist specialising in property and personal finance. She previously worked at London daily newspaper City A.M and on the trade publication, Property Week.
Joanne Atkin
Joanne Atkin is an award winning, freelance journalist and has written for both trade and consumer press. She is the former Editor of Mortgage Finance Gazette, What Mortgage and The Money Pages and has previously worked for a major lender.
David Craik
David Craik is a freelance journalist writing news, feature articles, blogs and guides for national newspapers and magazines. His main areas of interest include finance, property and investments.
Hannah Duncan
Hannah Duncan is a freelance writer with a passion for finance, sustainable investing and fintech. She loves writing engaging content for industry magazines and investment services, as well as keeping a personal blog at www.hdinvestmentcontent.com
Lucy Harley-McKeown
Lucy Harley-McKeown is a freelance journalist who specialises in business and finance. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, Newsweek and The Lawyer Magazine. Find her on Twitter @LHM1.
Helen Jackson
Helen Jackson is a freelance content writer who writes for the financial sector, amongst others.
Paresh Raja
Paresh Raja has an extensive background at one of the Big 4 consultancy firms, specialising in structured finance, and a long-standing career in the commercial and specialist lending sector. He is therefore well placed to discuss anything bridging finance specific, or business more generally. Paresh is now the CEO at Market Financial Solutions which he has developed to become a leading name in the bridging finance space.
Charlotte Rutter
Charlotte entered the specialist finance sector six years ago, previously working for TFC Homeloans before joining Roma Finance. She is CIM qualified and has worked in marketing and communications for over 17 years across various industries.
Roxana Mohammadian-Molina
Roxana Mohammadian-Molina is chief strategy officer at Blend Network, which provides development finance and bridging loans to experienced small and medium (SME) property developers across the UK regions.
Daniel Richardson
Daniel Richardson, is a Partner and Property Receiver at CG&Co. Founded in 2012, CG&Co specialises in Property Receivership and has the expertise to deal with default customers and return funds to lenders as swiftly as possible.
Tiba Raja
Tiba Raja is a specialist in both banking and finance, having worked at Aviva, HSBC’s Investment arm and Goldman Sachs before launching Market Financial Solutions in 2006, where she works persistently in the background as Executive Director. Tiba is an expert in strategy and business development, as well as being dedicated to philanthropy – focusing mainly on children’s charities.
Gary Bailey
Gary joined Hope Capital at the beginning of 2019 to direct the expansion and growth of the company. With over 25 years’ experience in the specialist and complex finance markets, in many leadership roles Gary comes with a wealth of experience and knowledge. Being a key figure in the successful sustainable growth of Together, as Sales Director for over 20 years.
Jemima Hayes
Jemima is a Junior Underwriter at MFS, dealing with enquiries from both intermediaries and direct clients. MFS is an independent bridging finance provider that arranges fast and flexible bridging loans.
Tony Sanchez
Tony is the founder of Clara Media, a leading media, publishing and advertising company for the UK finance industry since 2012. Previously, he ran the alternative investment consultancy Clara Capital. He has more than 20 years’ experience in banking and finance, including a period with Lloyds TSB Offshore and International Private Banking, specialising in UHNW property finance, tax and investments.
Andrew Rutherford
A multi award‐winning asset-based lending professional. Andrew structures and delivers working capital solutions for SMEs and Mid‐Market companies for MBOs, MBIs, acquisitions and refinancing’s. He is responsible for spearheading key business introducer development, working with Private Equity houses and professional intermediaries to deliver ABL and cashflow lending with the quantum and velocity of funding that today’s M&A market demands.
Alpa Bhakta
Alpa Bhakta is the CEO of Butterfield Mortgages Limited. Part of the Butterfield Group and a subsidiary of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited. Butterfield Mortgages Limited is a London-based prime property mortgage provider with a particular focus on the needs of UK and international HNWIs
D’mitri Zaprzala
D’mitri Zaprzala is Chief Executive Officer at Avamore Capital, a principal development and bridging lender. Lending across England and Wales, Avamore supports SME developers in completing a range of projects. D’mitri has over 13 years experience in the property finance sector.
Kate Cowan
Kate Cowan is the Chief Financial Officer at Hope Capital, a privately-run bridging firm which was established in 2011. In her role, Kate supports the strategic direction of the business, with a focus on the delivery of strong commercial growth.
Amanda Lewis
Amanda is the Head of Operations at Arbuthnot Specialist Finance, the short-term property finance subsidiary of Arbuthnot Latham. She synergizes the functions with the Core bank and manages the end- to- end operations of the subsidiary with oversight of client management, risk, compliance, and Portfolio functions.
Jonathan Newman
Jonathan is Senior Partner at Brightstone Law. He specialises in Property Finance Litigation, Professional Negligence, recovery actions, insolvency matters and complex banking recovery actions.
Simon Nicolaides
Simon Nicolaides is a founding partner of PNN Law with over 10 years of experience in commercial real estate, bridging finance, and corporate transactions.
Millie Pollard
Millie secured her first financial services and property finance position when she joined Black & White Bridging in 2021. She is approaching the end of her Level 3 in Business Administration apprenticeship, where she is supporting and engaging with different parts of the business and interacting with internal or external customers. Millie wants to progress towards a management role upon successful completion of her apprenticeship.
Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison is Director of Business Development at Stretton Capital, a privately funded principal lender offering bridging and development finance up to £5m on residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural security in England and Wales.
Priya Chauhan
Priya is a Director of Debt Finance at OakNorth Bank, having joined from Santander in April 2015. She specialises in providing flexible property finance solutions to developers and investors across the UK.
Sabinder Robinson-Sandhu
Sabinder is Head of Operations and Marketing at Avamore Capital. Having joined the firm in April 2018, Sabinder has been key in the growth of the business, driving core strategies to build Avamore’s brand in the market and leading on operational changes to implement business efficiencies.
Sophia Lee
Sophia Lee joined Avamore Capital in June 2021 as its first Internal Relationship Manager. She is primarily focused on developing partnerships, driving brand awareness and ensuring wide market reach on behalf of Avamore Capital. In her role, Sophia gains varied insights and feedback from the industry so is well placed to comment on the landscape of bridging and development.
Tom Simpson
Tom Simpson is Managing Director at YBS Commercial Mortgages, a position he’s held since June 2019, where he led the launch of the business and its subsequent expansion.
YBS is the Commercial is the commercial arm of Yorkshire Building Society, offering Corporate Buy to Let, Commercial Investment and SME Lending with an award-winning quality of service to both trading businesses and property investors based in the UK.