Livemore has promoted Tim Wellard to the role of senior proposition manager and is looking to recruit a third person to the propositions and development team.
Wellard will develop new propositions at Livemore, and the third role has been created to focus on the pricing and development of existing propositions.
He has worked at the company for more than two years, initially as product manager for mortgages.
Prior to that, he was product manager at Aldermore for more than five years, and before that, was product development manager for over nine years at British Gas.
The lender has also appointed Samantha Ward as the head of proposition strategy and development, and she will lead the development of products and ownership of credit risk.
Leon Diamond, CEO of Livemore, said: “Samantha’s two decades of expertise will help drive us towards greater innovation and customer-centric solutions, while her vision and strategic leadership skills will also be invaluable.
“I am equally delighted to promote Tim Wellard, whose hard work has been evident in our breadth of product delivery achieved to date.
“We are excited to embark on this new journey with Samantha and Tim, as we continue to empower our clients to keep living the life they love through our tailored mortgage solutions.”
Livemore has been growing its team, recently appointing Les Pick as its director of intermediary sales.
It has also appointed Nicola Palmer as key account manager for the South West and Lisa Kemp as a telephone business development manager (BDM).
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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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