Alison Pallett, the director of sales for UK mortgages at the Bank of Ireland, is leaving the provider with no onward plans.
The UK mortgage boss has confirmed she is on gardening leave until the end of April but is excited to see what opportunities arise next.
Pallett joined the bank in 2005 as managing director of consumer lending, progressing to relationship director and was appointed to her current role just over four years ago.
She told Mortgage Solutions: “It’s been an absolute pleasure working at Bank of Ireland. I’ve loved my time and met some amazing and talented people and wish the team and the bank every success for the future.”
Pallett is on the board of directors and company secretary of the Bristol’s Women’s Voice, a lobbying group working to create a level playing field for women’s rights and services empowerment in the city.
BOI began a repositioning exercise in April last year to make Post Office for Intermediaries its dominant mortgage lending brand. Pallett led the transition, broker contract migration and re-registration drive across to the new distribution arrangement.
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.