Palmer joins LiveMore from Air Club, where she was a senior business development consultant for nearly two years, and before that she worked at Canada Life for around three years – initially as a BDM and then working her way up to key account manager.
Prior to that, she worked at Capital Home Loans as a mortgage arrears specialist for over a year, and previously was a mortgage consultant for three years at RBS. She was also a mortgage broker at John Charcol.
Kemp was most recently a BDM at SoMo for nearly a year, and before that was a BDM at PropFin for around a year.
Before that, she worked at Skipton Building Society for over two years and has also held roles at BridgeBank Capital, Optimise, Santander, RBS and Aviva.
In an interview with this publication near the tail end of the last year, LiveMore CEO Leon Diamond said that the company was looking to grow its staff in 2024.
The lender recently appointed Les Pick (pictured), formerly sales director at More2Life, as director of intermediary sales at LiveMore.
Pick said: “Growing my team with the best people is a key focus for 2024 – it’s such an exciting time for the later life lending market. Nicola and Lisa will be invaluable assets to brokers who want to better understand this market and leverage a range of opportunities that exist for their customers in later life lending, right now and into the future.”
LiveMore has been innovating its product proposition, lowering its rates by up to 0.71 per cent in January, launching a cashback mortgage for over-50s and widening its lifetime mortgage criteria around property, and has expanded its distribution with five packager arrangements.
The lender entered into equity release last year, with Diamond noting that around 20 per cent of its originations now come from equity release.
