Paul Roberts has been appointed business development manager at National Counties Building Society and its offshoot, Family Building Society.
Paul joins from Skipton Building Society where he has been a BDM since 2001. He has spent over 26 years in the industry.
Cammy Amaira, head of intermediary sales at National Counties said:
“We are delighted that Paul has joined us. He brings a wealth of experience which will be invaluable in developing relationships with brokers and other intermediaries in the North of England, notably the M62 corridor, Yorkshire and the North East.
“We are seeing unprecedented growth in lending volumes and the number of applications for new loans to National Counties Building Society and Family Building Society, continues to rise. We believe very firmly in building relationships with our introducers to continue to offer the very best service to them and their clients.”
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.