Gary Sutherland, director of distribution for One Bank Mortgages (OBM) at Natwest, will be leaving the firm next year, Mortgage Solutions understands.
Sutherland has been with Natwest for over a decade and in 2015 took on the role of head of mortgage and protection within specialist banking, which covered the firm’s face-to-face mortgage advisory business including RBS England and Wales and its mortgages direct team.
He took on the role of interim managing director for homebuying and ownership between 2019 and 2020 and since 2021 has been the director of distribution for One Bank Mortgages.
The latter includes organic advice, Natwest Intermediary Solutions and the bank’s digital mortgage team.
It is understood that Sutherland is leaving the firm in June and recruitment is underway for his replacement.
Natwest: ‘Sutherland instrumental in success of OBM’
Miguel Sard, managing director of buying and ownership at Natwest, said: “Gary Sutherland has decided that now is the right time for him to pursue new opportunities outside of Natwest Group. Gary has been instrumental in the continued success of our OBM business leading our organic, intermediary and digital mortgage distribution teams.
“The business has gone through a significant period of change and Gary’s leadership, direction, and support of the teams through these changes has been invaluable and a true reflection of his commitment to our teams, our customers, and the bank.”
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.
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