Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let and specialist lender, has recruited ex-Coventry business development manager Chris Kirby in the same role to cover the Midlands.
He reports to sales director, Ross Turrell.
Kirby joins Fleet Mortgages after spending four and a half years at Coventry Building Society in a variety of roles, including both mortgage and protection adviser and a telephone/office-based BDM where he covered approximately 300 relationships in the Midlands.
Kirby joined Coventry BS after university where he gained a degree in financial services.
Bob Young, chief executive officer of Fleet Mortgages, (pictured) said: “We have had incredibly strong support from the intermediary community in the Midlands and therefore we wanted to ensure we had a quality BDM in place to develop those relationships.
“Chris will be a recognisable voice to many advisers however with Fleet Mortgages he will now become a recognisable face too, visiting and supporting existing relationships, and developing new ones across the region. We are very pleased to have him on board and would urge any advisers who are active in the buy-to-let sector in the Midlands to get in touch with him.”
Kirby added: “I can now get out and about and will be meeting as many advisers as possible to provide support, education and information on how Fleet Mortgages can help their buy-to-let clients. I would welcome any contact from those interested in this sector and/or our range of products.”
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.
