Specialist lender has appointed Ryan Brailsford (pictured) to the newly-created role of director of business development.
In his role he will lead the business development team, which helps brokers with specialist mortgage cases.
Brailsford has been with the firm since 2016, initially joining as regional development manager for the North and then rising to head of sales in 2018.
He joined Pepper after six years at Aldermore as a business development manager and later a relationship manager.
Before that Brailsford was an account manager at PruProtect and has also worked for Direct Mortgage Answers and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Paul Adams, sales director at Pepper Money, said: “I’d like to offer my congratulations to Ryan on taking this new role of director of business development. It’s richly deserved and testament to the hard work and leadership he has demonstrated during his time at Pepper Money.
“I know that our business development team will thrive under his guidance and this will only benefit our intermediaries and their customers.”
Brailsford added: “It’s a very exciting time at Pepper Money at the moment. We are broadening our proposition to help even more customers and we’re developing our sales team to ensure we are best equipped to support our intermediary partners.
“This new role demonstrates our long-term commitment to delivering brokers the best possible service and I’m looking forward to launching some further products soon to further strengthen our proposition.”
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.
