West One’s Nick Jones joins Freedom Finance as director for intermediary division

He joins from West One Loans where he worked as sales director for two years. Prior to that he worked at Roma Finance as commercial director for nearly a year, and before that at Together Finance for 14 years, most recently as head of specialist distribution. 

At Freedom, Jones will help to expand its intermediated division, by driving the growth and development of its service. 

This comes as the lender invests in its offering amid a rising demand for second charge mortgages. 

Freedom Finance is a platform which helps customers find secured and unsecured loan options including homeowner loans and mortgages. It connects borrowers to a range of specialist lenders including Shawbrook, Pepper Money, Precise Mortgages and Selina. 

Its intermediary division provides brokers with search technology, industry knowledge and access to its lending panel. 

Jones said: “It is an exciting time to be joining Freedom Finance, a business that combines industry-leading technology and data with a team that really understands financial intermediaries and their clients. 

“Secured credit is playing an increasingly important role in consumer finance in the UK and I look forward to working with Andrew and the team at Freedom to develop a wide-ranging specialist lending service.” 

Andrew Fisher, chief growth officer at Freedom Finance, said: “I am delighted to welcome Nick to Freedom Finance, he brings a wealth of property finance experience to the team. Nick’s valuable lender-side perspective will help us build a market-leading specialist lending distribution service.”