< p>Business lender Merchant Money (MM) has hired three new Executives to its sales and relationship management team in order to grow its introducer network.

The lender has expanded the team to cover different parts of the UK in order to focus more upon the needs of prospective and current business sources.

MM has appointed David Courtneidge as Sales Director (UK), Fran Bos as Business Development Director (West) and Jim Harrow as Business Development Director (Northern).

Frank Pocock, who is a founding member of the team with over 30 years of industry knowledge, will continue working as Commercial Director, where he manages the lender’s expanding stable of key accounts and develops relationships with existing MM introducers.


Frank Pocock of Merchant Money

Newly appointed David, who joined MM yesterday, has spent the last ten years working within and managing busy sales teams - spanning multiple industries including insurance, publishing, currency broking and corporate banking (Investec Bank PLC).

Based in London, David will be heading up the newly established sales team with an aim to gain new brokers and other business introduction channels.

David, who is passionate about FinTech, will take the lead role in MM’s patronage of the NACFB and other key groups, as well as oversee the countrywide sales team and directly manage the Southern and Eastern regions.
 

David Courtneidge of Merchant Money

Fran, who also joined the team this month, is responsible for sales in the Western and Midland region.

She has 14 years’ worth of experience in the card division of HSBC, with plenty of experience in business development and relationship management.
 

Fran Bos of Merchant Money

Jim joined the team earlier this year with a role to look after the Northern and Scottish region.

With expertise in the payments industry, Jim will be using his experience of strong sales and service in his region which will extend as far south as Manchester.
 

Jim Harrow of Merchant Money

The MM team will be at the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo at Stand A03 at the NEC on the 17th June, where a couple of pairs of Rugby World Cup tickets are set to be up for grabs at the stand.

To enter, visit MM’s stand A03 and drop in your business card. Or simply click here to register your details and be entered in to the prize draw.


“Merchant Money is delighted to have this extraordinary team and looks forward to growing our broker and introducer network rapidly,” commented Jan Stefanowicz, CEO at MM.