Sean Webb is appointed Chief Commercial Officer with overall responsibility for secured sales, marketing and insurance activities. He reports to Colin Shave, CEO. Jonathan Sadler and Patrick Bamford, sales leaders for the igroup and First National brands respectively, and David Harvey, marketing leader, will report to Sean and remain key members of the SMT.
Sean Webb has been with GE for seven years, most recently as CEO of the consumer finance business in Ireland. During this time he established the Greenfield specialist mortgage business and pioneered its partnership with IFG Mortgages – one of Ireland’s largest mortgage intermediaries.
Jeffrey Harris is appointed Risk Director reporting to Colin Shave. He joins from Citigroup where he held a number of Risk related and general management positions in the UK, Europe and the Americas. He has a wealth of knowledge of lending across customer segments, and has acquired wide experience of the impact of regulatory change on financial services market dynamics.
Colin Shave said: “The igroup and FN brand businesses together represent an important part of GE’s home lending business. Working closely with our sales, marketing and insurance leaders, Sean and Jeffrey will focus on co-ordinating and strengthening our brand activity across the secured lending market place. Their specialist knowledge will be of great value as we continue to identify and deliver innovative ways of improving and adding to our combined product range. I’m delighted to welcome both of them to the GE Consumer Finance Home Lending leadership team. “
