The restructure and hires come as Together says it wants to double the size of its corporate lending division.
Hooley has worked at Together for around seven years, initially joining as a risk and assurance framework manager and then becoming the head of commercial assurance. Before that, she worked at The Co-operative Bank for over 19 years.
The firm has brought on three senior corporate underwriters – Ben Eckersley, a commercial real estate expert who joins from Aldermore, Niz Rajakulendran, formerly a commercial real estate underwriter for Yorkshire Building Society, and Jordan Green, who joins the new Together team after working for relationship-driven lender Handelsbanken for a decade.
Together has also brought on two completion managers, Dave Taberner and Raza-Ali Vasi, along with chartered surveyor and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)-registered valuer Dan Sidlow and Layton McCarthey as operations manager.
The corporate lending division has been restructured to create several specialist “pods” to “support corporate lending through specific lending channels”.
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The lender said the creation of pods would improve the provision of specialist support, including internal valuation experts, specialists in larger complex lending, and in-house compliance and legal support.
Hooley said: “Insights from our valued customers has proved invaluable in helping identify opportunities to improve our processes, leading to an investment in additional headcount to broaden capacity. With the team already doubled in size, we are committed to continuing to make meaningful changes to improve the experience for clients in order to achieve their property ambitions through Together’s fast and flexible commercial finance products.”
Earlier this month, the firm priced its commercial real estate mortgage-backed securitisation at £522.2m.
