LiveMore appoints two new key account managers and one new underwriter

27 January 2025

LiveMore, the mortgage lender for people aged 50 to 90 plus, has appointed two new key account managers for the North and Midlands. The firm has also appointed a new mortgage underwriter.

Claire Aston, Key Account Manager – Midlands and Aaron Farrell, Key Account Manager – North, and Leah Chiakli, mortgage underwriter, have all joined the business in January.

Aston has a strong financial services background working for high street and challenger banks for 20 plus years in client relationship management and strategic account growth. She is focused on building meaningful, long-term partnerships, driving value and helping brokers navigate mid-to-later life lending.

Farrell has worked in financial services (banks and building societies) for more than 15 years. He was attracted to LiveMore’s fast growth and wants to help the business say yes to more cases, making a real difference to intermediaries and their clients.

Both Aston and Farrell are established and extremely well respected in their respective regions, they will now start to build new and existing intermediary connections whilst growing awareness of LiveMore.

Chiakli has worked in the mortgage industry for the last four years, with experience gained across first and second charge mortgages. She is looking forward to entering the later life sector to provide positive outcomes for our customers.

Les Pick, director of intermediary sales at LiveMore, said:

“Last year we generated year-on-year growth of 300% in revenue and 100% in lending. Aaron, Claire and Leah will help us continue to build on that as we move through what is already a really exciting 2025 at LiveMore.

“As key account managers, Aaron and Claire will be supporting intermediaries as we launch new initiatives to support advisers of all levels of proficiency in the mid-to-later life market.

“As well as growing our teams with great people, we continue to develop our technology with our market-leading LiveMore Mortgage Matcher®. It’s a quick and easy broker tool that helps advisers sift through more than 250 products spanning standard capital and repayment, standard interest-only, retirement interest-only and lifetime (equity release) mortgages. In as little as five minutes, brokers can share a PDF document of suitable options with their clients, helping provide good customer outcomes in line with the Consumer Duty.”

The Mortgage Matcher is free to brokers, who can find it on the LiveMore website at livemoremortgages.com/lmm. It works in conjunction with the affordability calculator.