The Intermediary – August 2026 - Flipbook - Page 100
On the move. . .
LendInvest appoints managing director of mortgages
endInvest has appointed Darrell
their clients need speed, flexibility, and
Walker as managing director
absolute certainty that a lender will
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deliver on.
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JACK COOMBS
DARRELL WALKER
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Pallas Capital appoints Darren Rix
as head of credit risk
allas Capital has appointed
Darren Rix as head of credit
risk. Rix spent 28 years in
retail banking focused on
corporate real estate and credit risk,
with senior roles at Barclays, Bank
of Scotland and Santander. Most
recently, he was head of real estate
credit risk at Hampshire
Trust Bank. Rix said:
“Having worked through
the financial crash and
several cycles since, I know
what disciplined credit
risk
looks like when markets
DARREN RIX
get difficult, and what it
takes to back the right developers
through them. Pallas Capital has real
ambition, and this is a fresh challenge
for me. I want to help build the
business into a formidable lender and
the go-to name in our market.”
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Morpheus Lending
strengthens business
development team
orpheus Lending
has strengthened its
business development
team with tthe addition
of Denae Clarke, to build
introducer relationships and
gro
supporting business growth.She
said: “The business has a strong
can wait to
reputation, and I can’t
it.
help strengthen it."
M
DENAE CLARKE
Roma Finance appoints
Paula Dowson as national
account manager
oma Finance has appointed
Paula Dowson as national
account manager. Her
previous roles include
Landbay, Castle Trust Bank, Glenhawk
and Together.
She will work with the wider team
to deepen broker relationships across
England, Scotland and Wales, and help
identify new business opportunities.
Dowson said: “Roma has a fantastic
reputation within the specialist finance
market and a genuine relationship-led
approach that sets it apart.
"The business has ambitious growth
plans, a strong and evolving product
offering, and a real commitment to
supporting brokers, making it a great
fit for me.”
She added: “I’m looking forward to
building new relationships and helping
more introducers and their customers
access the funding solutions they
need, whether that’s bridging finance,
development finance or long-term
property funding.
“Intermediaries play such a key role
in distributing forwardhinking products like
thinking
Gen H’s, and I am very
ard
much looking forward
to building strong
h our
relationships with
panel in the coming
months and years.”
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PAULA DOWSON
Pepper Money
adds two regional
development
managers
GEORGINA ENGLAND AND TOM GWILLIAM
P
epper Money has
appointed two regional
development managers
to support brokers in the
Midlands and North West.
Georgina England joins from
Family Building Society, bringing
more than 11 years of experience
in financial services and the
mortgage sector. She will be
responsible for supporting brokers
in the Midlands.
Tom Gwilliam has been
promoted internally aer nearly
three years as a telephone business
development manager (BDM) at
Pepper Money.
Gwilliam has worked
with brokers on complex and
specialist lending cases, and
will now support brokers in the
North West.
England said: “I’m delighted
to be joining Pepper Money.
Building strong relationships has
always been a key focus for me,
and I am passionate about helping
brokers find the right solutions for
their clients.”
Gwilliam said: “Working as a
Telephone BDM has given me firsthand experience of tthe challenges
brokers face with complex cases.
“I’m excited to tak
take the next step
in my career and continue helping
advisers across the N
North West find
solutions for customers, ba
backed by
Pepper Money’s underwriting and
operations teams.”
