Bridging
Together continues to grow executive board with two senior hires
Specialist lender, Together, has made two further appointments to its leadership team, rounding off a spate of recent board-level hires following the restructure of the business to separate its retail and commercial activities.
Brian Jackson takes on the role of operations director for retail activity, while John Hunt joins as chief risk officer in the retail division. This follows the announcement of Peter Ball, the former CEO of Harrods Bank, as chief executive of retail, and completes the retail board.
Jackson previously worked for British Gas as the director of credit and collections and prior to this, he spent 18 years at MBNA and Bank of America, following its acquisition of the credit card company in 2006. He worked across collection, recovery and credit operations.
Jackson said: “The specialist lending industry is thriving and Together is at the forefront of that and growing at a rapid pace, so it’s an exciting time to join. The business has a really impressive history, having traded successfully for four decades, so there’s a very strong foundation in place and I’m looking forward to helping improve and enhance our operations as we move forward to the next phase of growth.”
Hunt joins from Nationwide, where he spent six years in various senior risk and compliance roles, most recently leading a programme to redevelop the company’s enterprise risk management framework. With experience in compliance, corporate planning and commercial, unsecured and secured lending credit risk, Hunt has previously held roles at Capital One and GMAC RFC UK.
In May, Helga Wright, the former Co-operative Bank finance director, joined the company as commercial finance director.
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