Clever Lending appoints commercial and bridging specialist

The master broker said it expected business levels in the commercial sector to continue to grow and wanted to Winter to help drive the business forward.

Winter has a long background in business funding and financial services, having worked with a number of banking groups including HSBC, Lloyds, Bank of Ireland, Close Brothers and the Birmingham Midshires Building Society in the past 20 years.

He also managed his own commercial finance brokerage specialising in business finance via financial introducers.

Head of specialist lending Sonny Gosai said: “There is a huge appetite amongst introducing brokers and their clients for commercial lending. We are very pleased to bring David Winter on board to complement and enhance our ever growing bridging and commercial proposition.”

Winter added: “It’s great to become part of an innovative group dedicated to helping the introducer, and the plans that Sam Kirtikar and the team have for the business going forward can only serve to delight the brokers we support, and something I am very excited to be involved with.”