Investec has appointed Chris Watts, Kieran Emmanuel and Zulfi Islam to its mortgage intermediary team in London.
The firm said the appointments were part of its plans to grow the team to meet continued demand for its services and reach growth strategy targets.
Watts will take on the role of business development manager (BDM) and joins from Cynergy Bank, where he was relationship director.
Prior to that he worked at Butterfield Mortgages for around four years, and before that he was at Harrods Bank for around six years.
Emmanuel has been appointed associate BDM and has worked with Investec’s private client lending operations team since 2019 when he graduated university.
Islam will be apprentice BDM, the first one for around 18 months. He previously went to Nottingham Trent University and before joining Investec, worked as a sales specialist at Apple.
Peter Izard, head of intermediary business development at Investec, said: “This is an exciting time to be working for Investec Bank. The mortgage intermediary business development team, in particular, is seeing high demand for our services, and we needed to bolster the team to continue to meet our growth plans.
“We are pleased that Chris and Zulfi are joining the business and to announce our promotion of Kieran within the team. We are committed to focusing on developing our people and helping them to progress their careers which we believe demonstrates the career progression opportunities within the business.”
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.
