The first UK mortgage advice company to list Mortgage Advice Bureau, has recruited Rob Gent to its ranks from Legal and General.
Gent’s role will see him looking after key MAB partners as well as working closely with new strategic partnerships.
MAB’s CEO and British Mortgage Award winner Peter Brodnicki, said ‘It’s taken a while, but we got our man.’
He added: “We have some hugely ambitious plans in terms of innovation and growth, and the calibre of individual we have been able to attract is very exciting for the business. I see technology and brand as trends that will help us continue to attract the best advisers and firms in the sector, who share our vision for intermediaries, and have the desire to adopt an innovative culture.”
Gent said: “With Peter and the team gearing up for further network expansion over the next 12 months, it’s a brilliant opportunity and company to be part of.”
Listed on the Alternative Investment Market, Mortgage Advice Bureau has over 850 registered individuals, is a mortgage network and handles over £12bn of loans annually.
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.