In his role, Jones will oversee the development of the firm’s sales and business strategies to foster business growth and provide market-leading services.
Jones has worked at Legal and General’s retail protection business for around seven years as sales director, where he managed protection sales delivery for intermediaries via its regional business development teams.
He has worked at Legal and General since 1987, initially joining as life inspector in Guildford, and then worked in various sales management roles around the UK, including to East Anglia and Bristol.
Legal and General Home Finance said that Jones has worked all sectors of Legal and General’s intermediary business, at a regional and national level, including appointed representatives, direct sales and advisers across the mortgage, wealth and traditional IFA markets.
It said that this made him “well-suited to realising opportunities to drive growth of later life lending solutions”.
Stratton has been in the role of distribution director for Legal and General Home Finance for nearly three years, and before that was group sales director for over two years. He has also held senior roles at Axa Wealth and Winterthur Life.
Craig Brown, CEO of Legal and General Home Finance, said: “David brings a huge amount of industry and company experience, which will help us build our market-leading distribution strategy.
“His vast sales and business development experience will provide a laser view as we look to evolve our sales and service proposition to support our broker partners.”
David Jones (pictured), incoming distribution director at Legal and General Home Finance, said: “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to join Legal and General’s Home Finance business.
“We want to work even more closely to support our partners to enable them to offer outstanding advice, service and products to their clients, really embedding lifetime mortgages and retirement interest only mortgages as core elements of later life financial planning.”
