Newcastle grows BDM team

Welland has joined from Hinckley & Rugby Building Society to cover the Midlands, Smith was previously at Santander and will cover the M25 and London region and Hancock will cover the South East having joined from BM Solutions.

Newcastle grows BDM team

Newcastle Intermediaries has hired three business development managers in Kate Welland, Oliver Smith and Judi Hancock.

Welland has joined from Hinckley & Rugby Building Society to cover the Midlands, Smith was previously at Santander and will cover the M25 and London region and Hancock will cover the South East having joined from BM Solutions.

The trio join Francesco Di Pietro, who was hired in 2015 and covers the North and Scotland.

Steve Carruthers, head of mortgage distribution at Newcastle Intermediaries, said: “We are delighted with the growth of our BDM team, which will increase the help and support we can provide to our intermediary partners and make it even easier for them to do business with us.

“Investing in the support for our intermediary relationships, as well as our service and systems has been a key priority for us in 2016. Our intermediary business continues to make exciting progress and we’re fully committed to doing more going forward into 2017.”

Di Pietro said: “The team has some great complementary strengths and will work well together to help brokers grow their business and meet client needs using Newcastle Intermediaries’ proposition.”