Loughborough Building Society has appointed Ashley Pearson (pictured) to the newly-created role of head of intermediaries effective immediately.
In his role as head of intermediaries at Loughborough BS, he will join the senior management team and oversee intermediary-related activity and strategic planning.
This includes managing the team of telephone business development managers (BDM) and spearheading broker and customer journey improvements from a service and IT perspective.
Pearson has worked at Loughborough Building Society since 2017, initially joining as BDM before becoming national BDM in 2021.
Prior to that he was a mortgage consultant at Nationwide for around two years and before that he was branch manager at Derbyshire Building Society for nearly six years. He was also branch manager at Leeds Building Society for around six years.
Gary Brebner, CEO at Loughborough Building Society, said: “Ashley has been a real driving force since the launch of our intermediary proposition and, alongside other key individuals, has helped to create some solid foundations on which we are looking to build.
“His market knowledge and relationships throughout the intermediary channels are second to none and we look forward to him and his team putting into practice the ambitious growth plans we have in place to further extend our lending reach in 2024 and beyond.”
At the end of last week, Mortgage Solutions reported that Loughborough Building Society has amended its criteria for newly qualified professionals and people receiving benefits income.
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.
