Together has promoted Liz Hooley to head of corporate operations in a key restructure of its corporate lending division.
Hooley, who has a 20-year career in corporate banking, lending and risk, will provide strategic and operational direction for the team.
She will work alongside head of group valuations and corporate lending Dave Rowlinson.
Rowlinson has been involved in property lending for over 30 years, supporting customers and lenders in large and complex lending transactions.
Hooley’s promotion follows the delivery of a plan to double the size of the lender’s corporate lending by adding three new senior corporate underwriters.
The new appointments include Ben Eckersley, a commercial real estate expert who joins from Aldermore, Niz Rajakulendran, previously a commercial real estate underwriter for Yorkshire Building and Jordan Green who joins the new Together team after working for relationship-driven lender Handelsbanken for a decade.
Together has also appointed two completion managers Dave Taberner, who has worked in banking for more than three decades and Raza-Ali Vasi, a Masters degree law graduate who has previously worked in private practice, specialising in asset management and real estate with DWF.
Chartered surveyor and RICS registered valuer Dan Sidlow has also joined the team as Valuation Manager and Layton McCarthy as operations manager, to drive process efficiencies, people training and performance.
As part of the restructure, the lender has created a variety of specialist pods to support corporate lending through specific sales channels, such as intermediary sales, corporate sales as well as portfolio and relationship lending.
Commenting on the changes, Hooley says “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.”
