Accord Mortgages has promoted Gurpreet Chahal (pictured) and Andrew Calder to the role of corporate account managers, where they will manage key lender relationships and help deliver new propositions.
The promotions bring the total number of corporate account managers at Yorkshire Building Society’s subsidiary to three.
Chahal has worked at the firm for around a decade and was most recently retail area manager for around three years where he helped grow the business in the Midlands. He also worked on the Accord Broker Programme.
The scheme was launched in 2020 as a pilot and aimed to train retail retail colleagues to proactively contact intermediaries. This has allowed the sales team to reach more brokers and provided development opportunities for employees.
Prior to joining Accord and Yorkshire Building Society, he was debt management consultant at the Royal Bank of Scotland and also worked at Capital One.
Calder has been a business development manager for four years and before that worked at Yorkshire Building Society for around four years in various roles including development manager.
Both will work closely with fellow corporate account manager Iain Cunningham and Nicola Alvarez, who is senior manager for propositions.
Jeremy Duncombe, managing director of Accord Mortgages, said: “This is a great example of the quality of the talent we have within the business and our desire to support colleagues in their development and encourage internal promotion. I’m delighted to welcome Gurpreet and Andrew to my management team”.
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.
