Sarah Hartwell (pictured), regional account manager, has left specialist lender Foundation Home Loans, Mortgage Solutions understands.
Hartwell joined the firm around a year ago to cover the South region. The sales team at the time had eight regional account managers, two national sales managers and one director of sales.
Prior to Foundation Home Loans, she worked at Vida Homeloans for nearly five years, initially joining as a key account manager and then became a corporate sales manager.
Before that she was a key account manager in for The Mortgage Lender for around a year and previously worked at Nationwide as a business development manager (BDM) from 2006 to 2017.
From 2003 to 2006 she was a BDM at Northern Rock and has also worked at John Francis Wales, Countrywide Mortgage Services and Stroud and Swindon Building Society.
Hartwell has also been named a Change Maker, a Mortgage Solutions initiative which aims to highlight people in the industry who are helping to make the industry fairer, more balance or more sustainable.
She was nominated for her work around championing improved fertility support and mental health awareness.
Hartwell also spoke on the Diversity and Inclusivity Finance Forum’s podcast about her fertility journey and encouraged companies to put fertility policies in place to support employees.
Foundation Home Loans declined to comment.
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.
