Paul Hunt, marketing services director for financial services and B2B at Countrywide is leaving the property group on 8 September following a restructure.
Countrywide confirmed the restructure on its website on the 18 August.
Hunt is pursuing new opportunities as a marketing consultant in the financial services and property sector.
Hunt has more than 18 years’ experience running B2B and B2C marketing operations for mortgage lenders, including Lehman Brothers Mortgage Capital Division and Platform Home Loans.
Countrywide’s financial services division completed £15.7bn of mortgages in 2017, making it the UK’s single largest mortgage broker. The group is also the UK’s largest estate and separately lettings agency.
The restructure at property giant Countrywide means Alison Platt, CEO will focus on sales, lettings, financial services and commercial and Himanshu Raja, the chief finance officer will drive the group’s finance side, IT, and operations.
Hamptons, Premier & City and the UK-wide sales and lettings territories will report to Platt and become the UK trading team to drive market share and growth. Himanshu Raja’s existing finance team will be joined by the operations team to become finance and operations to deliver “operational excellence, cost leadership and cash agenda.”
Countrywide was unavailable to comment further.
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.