Together expands intermediary sales team with three new hires

By Bridging Loan Directory 28th November 2024

Property lender Together has announced the appointment of three new regional account managers to its team.

Lois Ashcroft, Katie Wilsher-Garratt and Chris Waind will be joining the Cheadle-based company’s intermediaries team under Tanya Elmaz, working with its packagers, brokers and networks and clubs partners.

The new starters will be responsible for managing new and existing relationships with broker partners, assisting them with finding solutions to complex cases across the regulated and unregulated markets.

Lois, who will be working across South Wales, brings 10 years experience within the mortgage industry, working at Principality, Pepper Money and most recently, Lendinvest.

She has experience of underwriting, advising and has been field based for the last few years, recently focusing on bridging, and commercial after working in regulated finance for 9 years.

Prior to Together, she spent six months with LendInvest as a BDM, focusing on bridging, commercial finance and first charge residential loans.

Lois said:

“I was delighted when the opportunity arose to come to together, a lender that specialises in helping customers find solutions where they may have been told no elsewhere.

I’m extremely proud to work for a company which has been around for over 50 years and has an incredible reputation within the market.”

Chris has worked in specialist finance for 20 years, with the last decade being field-based.

He worked as a broker at Freedom Finance and for lenders including First National Bank, Nemo Personal Finance and Central Trust.

He will be working with Together’s packagers and new club and network members across the North-West.

Chris said:

“Using my experience of working on both sides of lending transactions, I have a deep understanding of the difficulties brokers face and how best to support them.

I’m looking forward to meeting our valued packaging partners and to discuss our extensive product range to help more people realise their financial goals.”

With more than two decades financial experience, Katie began her career at Moneypartners where she worked her way up to senior underwriter.

From there, she moved into an internal sales role at Link Lending.

Katie also spent time at GE Money, before joining Shawbrook Bank working in a variety of roles including internal sales manager, training manager, BDM and head of networks and retention.

She then founded bridging lender Focused Lending, and held several positions across Central Trust and Tuscan Capital, before moving to Together. She will be working across the South.

She said:

“I’m excited to begin supporting our intermediary partners with great funding solutions across a broad range of products, and to learn more about the unique lending criteria of Together.

This support comes in many ways from training, assisting with all applications and maximising business opportunities for both broker and Together. I look forward to developing close relationships with them all.

Tanya Elmaz, director of intermediary sales, said:

“We are delighted to welcome Lois, Katie and Chris as we expand our intermediaries team, bringing on board and supporting packagers, brokers and new Networks and Clubs partners, bringing on board our new Networks and Clubs partners, which will help us serve more customers across the UK achieve their property ambitions.”