Shawbrook expands Commercial Mortgages lending team with two new appointments

08 September 2015

Shawbrook Bank’s Commercial Mortgages division has appointed Sarah Linley and Adrian Boxall to its lending team. Sarah has been appointed as Lending Officer, whilst Adrian joins the team as a Lending Manager.

Sarah will be liaising with brokers and solicitors on cases in order to assist the Lending Managers in seeing loans through to completion, and to keep all relevant parties informed in driving forward applications.

Sarah has over ten years’ experience as a mortgage broker at an estate agent in London, seeing deals through from the sale agreed date to completion. Her role involved packaging the mortgage applications from an in-house independent mortgage broker and liaising with other agents, surveyors, solicitors, lenders and clients. She has also worked for property management company DTZ.

Sarah commented on her new role:

“Coming from a mortgage broker background, I am excited to see where all the paperwork I previously dealt with ends up. I am looking forward to working from the other end of the industry. I chose Shawbrook because of the passion for the industry shown when I met the team for the first time.”

As a Lending Manager, Adrian’s new role will be focused on assessing credit and underwriting investment property lending applications submitted to the bank by its accredited brokers.

Adrian joins Shawbrook with more than 26 years’ experience at HSBC Bank plc, where he covered a variety of positions across retail branch banking, residential mortgage advice, investment property lending and commercial management for trading businesses. As a Commercial Manager, Adrian was responsible for a portfolio of 250 trading businesses, supporting them with their growth plans.

Adrian also commented:

“I was attracted to Shawbrook by the fact it is a relatively new, innovative and fast growing bank which prides itself on providing a customer-focused service. I’m excited about being part of a more specialist lender and I’m looking forward to seeing the lending market from this different perspective.”

Karen Bennett, Sales and Marketing Director, Commercial Mortgages, Shawbrook Bank said:

“I am pleased to announce Sarah and Adrian as two new additions to our Commercial Mortgages’ lending division, who will bring great value to our already strong offering and further enhance the support we offer to our broker partners.

“We always endeavour to find the very best candidates to join our team and I look forward to the wealth of experience and expertise both members will bring to their roles.”