The vote which took place at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting saw a unanimous decision in favour of Haresnape continuing in the role.
Haresnape who is also the managing director for mortgages and commercial lending at Aldermore has served in the position since March 2014 when he stepped up from deputy chairman to replace David Finlay.
Following yesterday’s vote he will now continue in the role until November 2016. The election also saw Kevin Purvey of Coventry Building Society and John Heron of Paragon Mortgages re-elected as directors.
Phil Rickards of Lloyds Banking Group and Alan Cleary of Precise Mortgages will take over the reins from current directors, Richard Tugwell of Virgin Money and Paul Darwin of Skipton Building Society. Kevin Purvey will take up the role of deputy chairman.
Haresnape said: I have thoroughly enjoyed my time to date as IMLA chairman and look forward to further representing the views of its membership. The responsibility has come at a time of significant change for the mortgage market, bringing challenges and opportunities in equal measure – especially to all those involved in the intermediary channel, which is visibly gaining strength.”
Peter Williams, IMLA executive director, said: “I would like to extend IMLA’s gratitude to the outgoing directors, who have made a great contribution to IMLA and I’m sure will continue to do so both through our executive committee and in other ways in the next phase of our development.
“We are fortunate to be able to call on fantastic knowledge and expertise from across the spectrum of intermediary lending – demonstrated by the fact that our new board can draw on the insight of a challenger bank, a building society, a mainstream banking group and two specialist lenders.”
