West One Loans has made four appointments in its short-term division, covering bridging and development finance.
Shaheel Tulsidas (pictured) has joined as development finance lending director.
Tulsidas brings over 10 years of financial services experience and was previously director of development finance at Invest & Fund for nearly seven years.
During that time he led funding initiatives and built relationships with lenders, high-net-worth (HNW) individuals, family offices and institutional investors.
Sam Tibbins is now senior portfolio manager in the development team.
Tibbins has almost a decade in property finance and was associate director of origination at Shojin Property Partners for four years before moving to West One Loans.
Additionally, Christian Gugolz has joined the bridging loan team as regional account manager for Region 1, which covers London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Gugolz was previously head of sales at Albatross Lending Group and spent nearly eight years at MT Finance, latterly as senior business development manager.
Abul Niloy joins as telephone business development manager.
Niloy comes from Charleston Financial Services, where he worked for over two years supporting a range of borrowers.
The company said the new team members would help drive growth and improve client service across the division.
Jez Quinn, head of sales – short term finance at West One Loans, said: “Q3 has started exceptionally strongly and the appointments of both Christian and Abul to our team are a statement of intent as we cement our place as the go-to lender in bridging finance.
“Both bring extensive experience, and I can’t wait for them to get started.”
Guy Murray, co-head of short-term finance at West One Loans, said: “Shaheel has evidenced his ability to build strategic funding relationships and scale operations at the highest level, while Sam’s investment knowledge gives us a strong competitive advantage.
“Their appointments strengthen West One’s ability to serve brokers who need fast execution on time-critical development projects.”
