Santander has appointed Natasha McCooey as business development manager (BDM) for Devon and Cornwall.
She joins from HL Partnership where she was regional compliance manager for nearly two years in Devon and, before that, was an area supervision manager for Primis in Devon and Cornwall for over four years.
Prior to that, she was a mortgage adviser at Halifax in South Devon for around three years and before that spent nearly a decade at the Post Office, initially as a financial services specialist and then as a mortgage adviser.
The bank has 67 BDM roles in total across its mortgages team.
In a LinkedIn post, McCooey wrote: “I’m excited to share I’ve started my new job! I’m joining Santander Mortgage Intermediaries, as a business development manager. Looking forward to a new challenge ahead and working with my team.”
Santander has confirmed the appointment.
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.
