Ex-Colleys surveying and valuation regional commercial manager, Caroline Drewett, has been appointed national account manager for Lloyds Banking Group.
Drewett has worked for various Lloyds brands since 2000 and been national accounts manager for Lloyds before from 2010 to 2011.
She also held a business development manager role for Halifax for over 10 years.
Drewett is joining Esther Dijkstra’s team, the director of strategic partnerships appointed in November last year, following Peter Curran’s departure to Countrywide.
More appointments are expected to be confirmed shortly.
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
