Both will reinforce the lender's underwriting staff
Specialist finance lender Mint Property Finance has added two new team members to its underwriting department to further increase its capacity.
One of the new hires, Leigh Harwood (pictured left), joins Mint as development underwriter from Stream Bank and has extensive experience in financial sectors. His career spans 20 years – working on mortgages, loans, litigations, and collections, and holding several titles, including head of underwriting at C&M Wealth International and credit manager at Stream Bank.
“I’m delighted to join the team at Mint,” Harwood remarked. “I’m looking forward to bringing my extensive industry knowledge to the company and helping continue their upward growth trajectory.”
Mint Property Finance welcomed two new Underwriting team members this week.
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Also hired by the lender as underwriter support is Ben Broad (pictured right), who is joining straight from Manchester Metropolitan University, where he recently achieved a 2.1 in his banking and finance undergraduate degree.
“I’m looking forward to beginning my career at Mint, and have been warmly welcomed into the team,” Broad said. “I’m excited to develop my knowledge of the property finance sectors and further my career in this exciting industry.”
Both Harwood and Broad will bolster the specialist lender’s underwriting team, led by Adam Robson and Sam Herd.
“As mentioned in the press previously this week, Mint continue to be very much ‘open for business’ despite the challenging economic circumstances, and our two new hires reflect our ongoing and growing need for exceptional talent,” stated Andrew Lazare, managing director at Mint Property Finance, commenting on the company’s new hires.
“The addition of Ben and Leigh to our team means we will be even better placed to successfully manage new and existing enquiries through our underwriting process to completion.”
The Cheshire-based lender, formerly known as Mint Bridging, said it had enjoyed near sustained year-on-year growth since inception in 2011 and, just last month, reported its highest number of enquiries on record.
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