West One has made four hires across its short-term lending division, which comprises bridging and development finance.
Shaheel Tulsidas (pictured) joins as development finance lending director, and Sam Tibbins as senior portfolio manager in its development finance unit.
While, Christian Gugolz comes in as regional account manager, and Abul Niloy as telephone business development manager in its bridging finance business.
The specialist lender says Tulsidas brings over 10 years of extensive financial services experience to the business. In his most recent role at Invest & Fund, where he served for nearly seven years, he was director of development finance.
The firm adds that “he led funding initiatives through existing lender networks and drove new business growth to expand residential property lending in the alternative finance sector, while building strategic relationships with ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors”.
It says that Tibbins has almost a decade’s worth of experience in property finance and was associate director of origination at Shojin Property Partners for four years before joining West One.
The firm says that Gugolz joins the bridging loan team as regional account manager for its Region 1 — made up of London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
He most recently served as head of sales at Albatross Lending Group and spent nearly eight years at MT Finance, progressing to senior business development manager.
Abul joins from Charleston Financial Services, where he served for over two years supporting a wide range of borrowers.
The lender says the additional experience these hires bring to its bridging and development finance teams “will drive growth” and allow the firm “to accelerate deal origination and improve client service delivery”.
West One co-head of short-term finance Guy Murray points out: “Shaheel has evidenced his ability to build strategic funding relationships and scale operations at the highest level, while Sam’s investment knowledge gives us a strong competitive advantage.
“Their appointments strengthen West One’s ability to serve brokers who need fast execution on time-critical development projects.”
