Dan Creswell will take on the role of relationship director, with Lilly Sargeant and Megan Andreou becoming senior portfolio managers. Ben Leigh has also been appointed to a role of associate director.
Cresswell has worked at Paragon for around seven years, initially starting as portfolio manager and working his way up to relationship manager. He has also worked at Titlestone Property Finance, Commercial Acceptances and Close Brothers Property Finance.
Sargeant has been with Paragon for around four years, starting as a junior portfolio manager and then becoming a portfolio manager.
Andreou has worked at Paragon since 2021 and before that worked at Stef and Phillips and Kricoss.
Leigh has been with Paragon since 2024, and before that worked at Achilles Information for around a year as head of sustainable finance. He has also worked at Bryanston School and RBS.
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Neal Moy, Paragon’s managing director of development finance, said: “It is fantastic to see these individuals progress over the past few years, so these promotions are hugely deserved. Career development is massively important to us, and we are dedicated to helping nurture and support our people.
“In recent years, we have fast evolved from mainly funding residential schemes to expanding into new markets – now supporting purpose built student accommodation, build-to-rent, later living and pre-let commercial, amongst others. We have ambitious growth plans and we need the right people to enable us to meet them, so I’m delighted to be able to make these promotions.”
