Bluestone Mortgages has grown its Sheffield team with the promotion of Nik Sukara and Laurel Johnson to senior business development manager and business development manager (BDM) respectively.
The promotions are part of the lender’s strategy to grow sales volumes and better support brokers and end-customers.
Sukara has been with Bluestone Mortgages as a BDM for around a year. He joined the firm from Rightangled, where he was a BDM, and before that worked at Unis as a BDM.
In his role he will develop key account relationships and help develop the Sheffield BDM team.
Johnson previously worked in the broker support team at Bluestone and has over 12 years of telephony sales account management experience. Johnson will manage broker relationships in Scotland and the North East.
Reece Beddall, sales and marketing director at Bluestone Mortgages, said: “These appointments and the expansion of our sales team are testament to our ongoing commitment to better support brokers and their customers achieve their homeownership dreams.
“Over the last year, Nik and Laurel have been crucial to the success and growth of Bluestone. Both bring with them a wealth of experience which will allow us to continue to expand our proposition and provide financial support to a growing number of disenfranchised customers.”
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.
In her role, she helps put together and structure the news agenda for the day and writes up press releases, reports, interviews, analyses and exclusives across both titles. She also commissions blogs for Specialist Lending Solutions and hosts online masterclasses and in-person events across the business.
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.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys reading, seeing live music, and cooking for friends and family. When she gets a chance, she also enjoys hiking, skiing and indoor rock climbing.
