Specialist lender SoMo has made 4 new hires, three of them from Collectively, to help the enterprise’ progress.
Based mostly in Manchester, the peer-to-peer property lender has appointed Laurel Livesey as an underwriter, Rachel Killeen as a valuations supervisor, Greg Applewhaite as a relationship director and Damiano Lo Presti as a relationship government.
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Livesey, who joins from specialist lender Collectively, will work on SoMo’s rising pipeline and brings the underwriting group to 12 folks.
Killeen will work alongside the gross sales and underwriting groups to supervise the valuation course of within the newly created position. Her appointment is a part of plans to construct a specialist valuation panel. Killeen additionally joins the group from Collectively, the place she centered on business operations.
Applewhaite, in his position as relationship director, will deal with the house counties, and joins with six years’ expertise throughout secured and unsecured lending, most lately at Collectively.
Lo Presti will help SoMo’s relationship administrators and keep its buyer database. He joins the agency from provide chain options supplier Flex.
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“It was vital to strengthen our group to not solely assist help our progress but in addition keep the standard customer support we’re recognized for,” mentioned Lindsey O’Neill (pictured), senior expertise acquisition associate at SoMo. “Because of our widespread Valuation Solely product and market-leading Second Cost charges we’re lending extra 12 months on 12 months.”
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