Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has appointed Carley Harrison and Kevin Crawford to new roles in its mortgage business development team.
Harrison has worked at Skipton Building Society since 2016 and before that worked at Santander between 2012 and 2016.
Crawford joined Skipton Building Society in 2014, and before that worked at Leeds Building Society for five years.
Skipton’s head of business development Paul Fenn (pictured) said the appointments were part of the mutual’s plans and ambitions to become a top ten lender, leading it to review its structure of its business development team.
Fenn continued: “During the past 15 months both the telephone and field-based business development managers have adapted to working differently with a heavy focus towards more virtual relationships.
“Whilst this has been effective and helped us maintain relationships during lockdown feedback from brokers more recently have been that they will continue to value face to face interactions where possible so we will be increasing our face-to-face contact with brokers.”
He added that there were three consecutive months of record-breaking mortgage performance. He said March was a record month for mortgage completions, April was a record month for mortgage applications and May was a record month for rate switches.
Anna is currently the deputy editor for Mortgage Solutions and editor for Specialist Lending Solutions. She has worked as a journalist since 2019, having secured her Gold Standard NCTJ diploma from News Associates in a fast-track six-month course.
She started her career as a report at specialist publication The Insurance Insider covering a wide range of areas before joining Mortgage Solutions and Specialist Lending Solutions in 2021.
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She has been shortlisted for three journalism awards, which include BIBA Journalist and Media Awards Scoop of Year Award in 2020, Headline Money Mortgage Journalist of the Year Award (B2B) in 2022 and 2023.
Prior to being a journalist, Anna worked in ecommerce across Snow + Rock, Cycle Surgery and Runners Need websites, and before that worked at specialist financial PR firm Rostrum.
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