Leasing Life’s monthly summary of the key career moves in the leasing and finance industry.
BNP Paribas LS promotions after Viollet retirement
BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions has made several changes to its executive senior positions following the retirement of deputy chief executive officer Xavier Viollet.
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Pascal Layan has been appointed deputy chief executive officer. He retains his responsibilities as director of international business lines and marketing and takes over the management of consulting activities.
Chief operating officer Wolfgang Pinner remains in charge of country supervision. He has also been appointed as chief data officer, and will be responsible for the supervision of the holding company and the strategy and development division.
Delphine Roché, previously responsible for relationships with retail banking in France, joins the executive board as director of transformation and IT. She will oversee IT corporate, process and efficiency, digital transformation, procurement, and personnel and property security.
Haydock Finance appoints chief executive officer
UK-based SME asset finance provider Haydock Finance has appointed John Jenkins as chief executive officer with immediate effect.
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By GlobalDataJenkins has over 30 years of experience in finance, having previously held senior positions at Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, GE Capital Bank and Amicus Finance.
HTB adds to specialist business finance division team
Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has promoted Louise McIntosh to operations director, and has appointed Nigel Pearce as a senior underwriter within its Specialist Business Finance division.
McIntosh and Pearce are based in London and report to Jon Maycock, managing director of specialist business finance, and Andrew Woodhouse, credit and risk director, respectively.
McIntosh has been central to driving the growth of the specialist business finance division since joining HTB earlier this year.
She has 15 years operational and changemanagement experience in the industry, and joined from Amicus Finance where she project managed the launch of a new Commercial Mortgage division. Prior to this, McIntosh worked at Aldermore Bank, and started her career at ING Lease UK.
Bringing over two decades of experience to HTB, Pearce joins from Distribution Finance Capital where he was risk director. Prior to this, Pearce was head of credit at Paragon Bank. He was also managing director at Five Arrows Business Finance and Fineline Media Finance.
Reward Finance appoints MD for Manchester
Reward Finance Group sales and marketing director Nick Smith has been appointed to the role of managing director of its Manchester office.
With over 25 years’ experience in the SME finance sector, Smith joined Reward Finance Group in 2016, and became a shareholder a year later.
In July 2018, Reward received an additional £10m (€11.4m) investment from Foresight Group to fund its business finance, trade finance and invoice finance products, bringing the total investment to £50m. Reward completed 21 deals in December 2018, releasing £6m of funds to SMEs.
Bibby Financial Services hires business development manager
Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed a business development
manager for the south west of England, as it looks to expand its support for SMEs in the region.
Sue Pengelly will be based at BFS’s South West office in Bristol, and joins a team of seven business development managers, alongside nine other employees responsible for new business generation and client relationship management.
The team wrote a total of 126 deals last year, and the business anticipates similar growth for the region in 2019. Pengelly will primarily focus on securing new business opportunities for BFS, with a focus on Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
Joining BFS with over 30 years’ experience in the financial services sector, Pengelly has held a diverse range of positions across the South West, specialising in invoice finance.
Most recently she was business development executive for Plymouthbased Balance for Business, where she assisted with sourcing funding totalling £8m for South West businesses in 2018.
Pengelly has also held roles as a relationship manager at both Clydesdale Bank and Barclays – for six and 13 years respectively – as well as a local company where she managed a business portfolio in Devon and Cornwall.
Academy Leasing Founder joins broker luv financial solutions
Warrington-based LUV Financial Solutions has appointed former Academy Leasing owner and founder Mike Nolan as a nonexecutive director.
LUV was set up by entrepreneurs Steve Coulthard and Steve Hibbert, who financially supported its start-up in 2014 as a car finance broker. In 2015 the business received investment from Jeremy Carr of Energize Capital, later appointing sales director Richard Fothergill to set up its asset finance brokerage in April 2018.
LUV has appointed Nolan to create an own-book facility to complement the asset finance brokerage and used car finance operations. Nolan was a founding director of Academy Leasing, and stayed on as a board member with responsibility for the asset finance division when the company was sold to 1PM in August 2015.
