Catalyst has bolstered its lending team with five hires: Danny Scoltock, Gareth Colston, Andrea Armillotta, Jaimee Coombes, and Jade Miave.
The new starters have worked for a variety of lenders and intermediaries, including Equifnance, West One, TAB, Nationwide, The Mortgage Works, and Positive Lending.
Scoltock was appointed as senior credit analyst, Colston as senior internal business development manager (BDM), Armillotta as credit analyst, Miave as credit administrator and Coombes as servicing administrator.
Scoltock said: “I have over 12 years’ experience in specialist finance. I first learnt underwriting with Equifinance, where I moved into bridging and development finance.
“I then worked in sales for West One, before going back to underwriting with TAB, where I was the head of the underwriting team.
“I am excited to join Catalyst, I can continue to learn and grow from their experienced team, whilst utilising my previous experience to help support the continued growth of the business.
“The team have been incredibly warm and welcoming and seeing the culture they have built was also a big draw for me too!”
Colston added: “Over the last 10 years, I worked at the specialist packager Positive Lending.
“I dealt with all types of lending including bridging, commercial and second charge mortgages.
“After obtaining my CeMAP, I moved into advising and recommending mortgages.
“I’m excited about this new challenge, Catalyst is a perfect environment to increase my experience in the financial industry; I’ve worked as a broker and now I want to experience lending.
“We have some great product launches coming up and I’m looking forward to using my experience as a packager to assist intermediaries with great service and support.”
Anna Bennett, marketing director at Catalyst, said: “Over the last few months, we have appointed some fantastic new talent, meet our 2024 ‘fab five’!
“Each of our new starters will play an important role in Catalyst’s future growth.
“Danny and Gareth are highly experienced in specialist lending, we have worked alongside them for years and they’ve hit the ground running, bringing great lending and broker insight to the team.
“Andrea joins us with incredible knowledge of regulation and portfolio clients from his time at Nationwide and The Mortgage Works.
“Jaimee joins the servicing team, and we can already see her passion for customer service shine through.
“And Jade, who joins our Credit Team, is doing a great job ensuring loan applications progress smoothly to completion.”
She concluded: “We are thrilled to have them on board and look forward to watching their careers progress to the next level.”
