Sesame Bankhall Group’s Stephanie Charman (pictured) has expanded her responsibilities to take on the role of group partnerships and propositions director.
In her role, she will lead on developing partnership relationships and market-leading adviser solutions and propositions in tandem with key partners.
Charman has worked at Sesame Bankhall for over six years, initially joining as specialist lending relationship manager, a role she held for around four years.
She then took on the role of head of strategic relationships in 2021 and then became strategic relationships director in 2022.
Prior to Sesame Bankhall Group she was director of mortgages at Positive Lending for nearly a year and prior to that worked at Mortgage Intelligence for over 15 years.
There have been a number of changes to Sesame Bankhall’s leadership, with Richard Harrison joining the firm as CEO. Interim CEO John Cowan has returned to the role of chair of the Sesame Bankhall board.
The mutual has also appointed Paul Wilson as its chief operating officer, taking over from Richard Howells who went on to take up a role at LSL.
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.
