Andrew Ferguson will be leaving his post at Axis Bank to join Foundation Home Loans as commercial director.
The business head of buy-to-let mortgages at Axis, who began at the bank in November 2014, is working his notice, Mortgage Solutions has learnt.
Before Axis, Ferguson (pictured) was head of sales and distribution at Kent Reliance.
Foundation’s director of marketing Jeff Knight, said: “Everyone at Foundation is absolutely delighted that Andrew has agreed to join us in September. This is an important hire for us, to help us with our ambitious growth plans and we are really looking forward to Andrew coming on board.
“Andrew brings a huge amount of expertise to our business. He very well respected within the industry, has lots of creditability and experience and I for one can’t wait to start working with Andrew,” he added.
Foundation has been active this year, appointing Andrew Moss as product manager in May after launching into residential mortgages in April subsequent to its business development director Paul Brett leaving in January.
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.
