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Executive Committee

Adam Tyler

Adam Tyler

Executive Chairman

Adam’s career began as an officer in the Merchant Navy with Shell. Once ashore, he became involved in property development and sales, later becoming a mortgage broker and then an IFA.

In the mid 90s, he worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland for 10 years and then in 2005, took the helm at the NACFB. During his 11-year tenure, he oversaw lending of around £100 billion from its members to UK SMEs. His time here allowed him to be involved in the changing shape of the industry during a period of unprecedented growth in the business lending market.

He now runs his own finance platform, has a brokerage for the specialist property sector and is a Director of an SME lobbying group based in Westminster.

Daniel Fireman

Daniel Fireman

Partner

Daniel is Head of Banking and Real Estate Finance at Howard Kennedy LLP solicitors, and has specialised in advising banks, development funders and bridging lenders on property finance matters since the late 1980s. Daniel offers a degree of general legal oversight, a lender oriented perspective and a broad knowledge and experience of the range of issues encountered daily in the industry by intermediaries and stakeholders generally.

Liz Syms

Liz Syms

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer and founder of Connect Mortgages and Connect for Intermediaries, Liz has been providing mortgage and financial advice for over 20 years. Liz and her team over of 30 staff specialise in arranging mortgages and in particular, helping landlords to build their portfolios. In 2012 Liz set up the specialist buy-to-let and commercial network that now supports over 100 mortgage brokers and also offers a packaging and referral services catering for the DAs and ARs of other Networks that need help with their specialist cases.

Liz spends a large part of her time delivering training to brokers that focusses on the brokers perspective of market and the lenders criteria and requirements, and regularly writes articles that feature in the trade press.

Wayne Smethurst

Wayne Smethurst

Director

Wayne is a Partner in The Finance Centre, a business he founded in 1991. Working from central London & Cheshire to offer nationwide support, advice and solutions to intermediaries in the Short Term Lending market. This is a market that will continue to grow over the next few years and with the right support, intermediaries, networks and lenders can offer huge benefits to consumer and business borrowers alike in a safe and transparent way.

David Golder

David Golder

Director

David Golder, Managing Director of the Consumer Credit Centre, part of the wider SimplyBiz Group, has over 30 years’ experience of working in the financial services sector, mainly in senior management and board positions. His career has spanned the dawn of regulation introduced by the Financial Services Act up to, and including, the current FCA regime.

Following a number of successful sales and management appointments with major UK product providers, David joined Bankhall Investment Associates, a UK-wide provider of regulatory compliance services, in 1999 and was appointed Managing Director in 2009. David joined The SimplyBiz Group in 2014 and has overall responsibility for the sales and recruitment team in addition to the Consumer Credit Centre.

Jordan McBriar

Jordan McBriar

Director

Having come from a property and finance background Jordan initially started his career as an Estate Agency in the middle of the 2008 recession. After 5 years of continual growth Jordan decided it was time to facilitate the acquisitions of property as opposed to selling them in early 2013 and went on to create Adapt Finance.

Utilising his contacts, as well as bringing in family and extended family members, Adapt soon became a recognised force within the short term bridging market collecting various awards along the way – some that were firsts for brokerages.

Growing market trends saw Adapt specialise in development, bridging and commercial finance solely within the B2C sector which had led to further accreditation.

Jordan, and Adapt, have become a market leader in service offering the same levels of care to both their clients and the lending partners – something which he looks forward to bringing to the Association.

Miranda Khadr

Miranda Khadr

Founder

Miranda provides commercial and bridging funding for residential and commercial properties both in the UK and internationally. She has arranged substantial funding over the past 5 years in an extremely difficult market. Based in central Mayfair, her operation deals directly with property developers, company owners as well as private individuals. Her unique relationship with lenders allows her to be one of the most respected and well placed brokers in the UK. She has built up strong sets of contacts supported by her focused and dedicated team.

John Booker

John Booker

John founded B2B Finance, the internet-only commercial brokerage in 2005. As the internet has become mainstream as the route to business funding so the lead volume has grown, now needing more than 50 contracted advisers, to provide the full range of commercial finance services. B2B has developed it's own broker systems so that everyone can work from home, making it easy to offer a national service.

John is delighted that B2B has been chosen by some top ex-bankers as their preferred partner for their new brokering roles.

Ben Lloyd

Ben Lloyd

Managing Director

Ben Lloyd, MD at Pure Commercial Finance (PCF) based in South Wales joined Barclays in 2005 advising on all elements of commercial lending and has made PCF into one of the leading specialist lending firms in the UK.

Julian Ingall

Julian Ingall

Director

Having always had an interest in property and initially part qualifying as an Architect, Julian decided to join the Financial Services industry in 1989.

In 2000 he jointly founded the boutique Mortgage Brokerage Cobalt Capital. As the managing partner of Cobalt Capital and at the centre of its growth, the company expanded to a peak of 90 staff and developed into one of the leading mortgage brokerages in London.

With more than a growing interest in the specialist and commercial sectors of the mortgage market and a determination to obtain finance on the seemingly impossible, Julian decided to follow his passion and invest into Coreco, becoming a Director of Coreco Specialist Finance in 2010.  His aim is to drive this business forward to become one of the strongest specialist finance teams in the industry, focussing on large residential loans for development / investment purposes and large property portfolios.

Julian was a short-listed finalist in the “Best Large Loan Broker” category at The British Mortgage Awards in 2011 & 2012.

Richard Jones

Richard Jones

Director

Richard is a vastly experienced Finance Director with over 25 years’ experience in the finance sector predominantly at board level. Richard specialises in helping complex organisations find finance for growth, devise and implement turnaround strategies and achieve stepped increases in scale.

After roles at KPMG and Thomas Cook Richard joined Travelex in 2003 where he headed up corporate finance (acquisitions) and treasury for its global operations managing over £2bn of funds on a daily basis. In 2007 Richard became Finance Director at Anglia Regional Co-operative, a retail and service business with over £400m turnover.  He managed the transformation of this loss-making company by successfully selling non-core businesses and refinancing debt to find investment for development and expansion of the food and funeral business.   

Richard founded Pilot Fish in 2012, providing commercial finance brokering and business advisory services. The company has grown to a very strong team of ten with both business and commercial property specialisms.