Brightstar has strengthened its management team with two promotions, making Bradley Moore managing director and William Lloyd a director at the company.
Moore (pictured), co-founded the business in 2011 alongside chief executive officer Rob Jupp and fellow director Kit Thompson and will continue in his role running the second charge mortgage division and Bright Mortgage Services, as well as the overall company.
“Bradley has been with the business from inception and has worked tirelessly hard with Kit and myself to make the business what it is today,” said Jupp.
Lloyd has been promoted to director where he will be formally responsible for the operations of the Brightstar Group, after starting as office administrator in 2012.
“Will deserves this opportunity and shows any member of our Brightstar Family what can be achieved with hard work, dedication and loyalty,” said Jupp.
In 2016, Brightstar launched EasySource, the specialist sourcing system and in November, Brightstar teamed up with DotBroker, part of The Financial Media Group, to provide Brightstar’s intermediaries with exclusive access to a wide range of unsecured loan products.
In July, Billericay-based Brightstar was awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Gold Employer of the Year, beating more than 300 international companies.
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.