Jim Coleman has been appointed treasury director and joins the executive committee. Jim has 27 years’ experience in financial services in the UK and internationally, including senior treasury roles at Nationwide, NatWest and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.
Will Foster joins as financial controller. Will is a chartered certified accountant with over 20 years of UK financial services experience including senior finance roles within Prudential UK and Aegon Insurance.
Both Jim and Will report to David Hill, chief financial officer who said, “Jim and Will are seasoned specialists in their respective fields with good financial services experience and will play a major role in our business.”
Helen Bramham also joins the company as operations manager with responsibility for third party administration partners. Helen reports to Barry Searle, chief operating officer, who said, “Helen has extensive third party administration experience and is ideally suited to fulfil the role of supervising and directing the contracting parties we will use for administration when we launch.”
As far a launch date is concerned, Portillion said it “continues to build its systems and people and will launch when the time is right”.
