Hampshire Trust Bank appoints Crust as Midlands BDM for specialist mortgages

In her role at HTB, she will oversee broker relationship management and support new business enquiries. She will work with possible new introducers to see how HTB can help them and create new opportunities.

Crust will report to Andrea Glasgow, sales director for specialist mortgages at HTB.

She joins from MT Finance where she was national sales manager for around a year, and prior to that was a senior consultant for strategy operations at TFS and Aquarius for just over two years.

Before that, she was a director at Sterling Green for five years, where she was a mortgage adviser, and prior to that worked in regional sales at Magellan Homeloans for around four years.

Glasgow said: “I’m proud to be able to attract experienced industry figures such as Annie to HTB, and she will bolster our strong business development team even further.

“Having worked as a broker for much of her career, Annie knows how valuable an effective, and attentive, business development manager can be, as well as the importance of fostering strong and collaborative partnerships.

“HTB is constantly improving both its product proposition and team, highlighting our mission to provide the best possible offering to both first-time landlords and professional investors.”

Crust added: “I am absolutely thrilled to join HTB, with their hard-earned reputation for excellence and deliverability within the specialist buy-to-let marketplace.

“Having admired HTB’s proposition from afar for some time, and I could not pass up the opportunity to be part of such a fantastic team within an award-winning bank, whose appetite for product development and growth is unrivalled.”

The lender has been hiring extensively over the past few weeks, recently hiring Alan Coleman as lending director within its development finance division, Jessica Winstone-Adair as development finance lending director for London and the South East and Sarah Dix as lending director in its development finance division.