Members elect new management committee
The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced the appointment of HSBC’s Richard Beardshaw (pictured) as its new management committee chair, replacing outgoing chair Jeremy Duncombe of Accord Mortgages.
Beardshaw, who is currently the head of sales for mortgage intermediaries at HSBC UK, has served on IMLA’s management committee since 2019.
He has more than two decades of experience in financial services, with previous stints at Countrywide, Lehman Brothers, and Platform. He has been in his current role at HSBC for more than eight years.
For the course of 2024, Beardshaw will be joined on the management committee by two deputy chairs, Nicola Goldie of Aldermore and Louisa Sedgwick of Paragon; elected directors Duncombe and Andy Dean of Nationwide, along with co-opted directors Adrian Moloney of OSB Group and Jonathan Stinton of Coventry for Intermediaries. Kate Davies will remain as IMLA executive director.
“Congratulations to Richard and to all those who have been either elected or co-opted, to those who are returning for a further year and those joining us for the first time,” Davies said. “I greatly value their experience and willingness to give up their time to help me run the association, and I look forward to working with them all in the coming year.
“I would like to thank those members who have worked on the committee and are now standing down, and also those who offered themselves for election. We had an exceptionally large and strong field of candidates this year, which indicates healthy support for and interest in IMLA’s activities on behalf of its members, which is much appreciated.
“My particular thanks go to Jeremy Duncombe who, having taken over as chair part-way through his predecessor’s two-year term, was then elected to serve for the next two full years. He has completed a long stint and will continue to help IMLA as he remains on the management committee.”
Commenting on his appointment, Beardshaw said he was looking forward to working with Davies and the directors to continue to support IMLA’s membership.
“I’m absolutely delighted to take on the role of chair, and on behalf of everyone at IMLA, I’d like to thank Jeremy for his three years’ service as chair,” he added.
IMLA is the trade body that represents the interests of 53 UK mortgage lenders and 12 associated firms involved in generating mortgage business via professional financial intermediaries. The management committee controls the association’s operations, steers its activities, and represents IMLA at meetings with external stakeholders.
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