John Griffin has been appointed as managing director of real estate finance, David Burke to the newly created role of head of relationship management and Ben Hodis takes on the role of head of origination.

John has nearly two decades of experience in real estate finance across senior roles at Secure Trust Bank and previously at NatWest.

Having led the bank’s London team for the past four years, he now takes over from Geoff Ray, following Geoff’s retirement.

Bringing 25 years of experience, David will be tasked with supporting the bank’s relationship directors to facilitate growth and build customer relationships.

Ben has two decades of real estate lending experience alongside a period conducting client-facing broking and prior to this new role spent three years as a relationship director.

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On the three promotions, Luke Jooste, managing director of business finance, said: “These strategic appointments highlight our commitment to driving growth and enhancing the customer experience in our real estate finance division as we look to broaden our set of lending products and expand our geographical reach to customers across the whole of the UK.

“John and David both know the business and our customers’ needs inside out.

“Combining this with Ben’s years of experience in property finance, will prove invaluable in our objective of delivering innovative financial solutions tailored to the needs of UK developers and investors.”

John added: “It’s a real pleasure to have been given the opportunity to build on the excellent foundations of our business, which has just celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

“Our mission is to push the team forward to support the group’s strategic goals and I look forward to seeing what the future has in store for us.”