B&C Awards 2014: In pictures

Following last week's event at the Hurlingham Club, B&C celebrates the day's success and its crowned winners with a gallery showcasing the occasion…

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Following last week’s event at the Hurlingham Club, B&C celebrates the day’s success and its crowned winners with a gallery showcasing the occasion.

The hotly anticipated B&C Awards 2014 has come and gone with a bang, where many attendees have praised the outcome of the event. B&C is proud to reveal the snaps of its biggest ceremony yet which hosted over 540 guests. 

We would like to thank everyone for their kind words about the day.

‘Well done on another triumphant awards yesterday. Really very good and in my view the best so far.
You deserve to be very proud of yourselves and your team.’
Alex King, SPF STF

The B&C Awards stage
 
 
‘Just a short note to say thank you for a well-planned and well executed event - thoroughly enjoyed.’
John Davies, The Just-Group
  
 
 
Entrance to the awards
 
‘Just a quick note to thank you for yesterday, it was our first time at the awards and we thought the day was a great success and celebration to our industry to which we all owe you a great thank you.’
Jordan McBriar, Adapt Finance
“Thanks for a great time yesterday. It was a really good venue and very well done.”
Ray Cohen, Jackson Cohen Associates
 
 “Just wanted to say thank you for another great awards day, superb as always and great tables… the whole team were brilliant also.”
Tomer Aboody, MTF
   


Live hedge people give the guests a surprise greeting
 
“I’m sure you’ve had loads of complimentary messages, so I’ll keep it brief. A MASSIVE well done; yesterday’s bash was exceptional and the food was amongst the best I have experienced at a do of that size. I can confirm that there is a lot of positivity coming out from yesterday’s event.”
Russell Martin, Finance 4 Business
 
 ‘On behalf of my team I would like to thank you for your hospitality yesterday at what was an extremely enjoyable and memorable event for us.The food was excellent and all the little touches contributed to making it a first class day.’
Nikki Ayling, NACFB
 
 
The Shisha Area  
 
‘On behalf of the team at Mint I just want to say what a great awards ceremony it was yesterday. It was a roaring success and all of your hard work came off.
More of the same next year please (plus an award for Mint!!!)’
Richard King, Mint Bridging Limited
 

Drinks reception

‘I know I told you both yesterday and put it on twitter but I wanted to thank you both again for a truly great day. 
Once again you guys have set the bar for how these events should be run. Amazing, amazing food, loved the fillet steak and even the little touch of the mini burgers and fish and chips at the end. Seriously good as my waistline this morning shows!
Thanks again for the award and highly commended awards too.
All in all a great day! Thanks very much again.’
Mark Posniak, Dragonfly
 
 
 
The Omni Bar
 
 ‘Which brings me on to also wanting to wish you a huge congratulations for hosting a spectacular event yesterday. I am sure many many months of hard work, stress, and planning/prep went into organising yesterday’s event and in my mind it all paid off. Everyone at Ortus (and the guests on our table), thought the whole day was excellent (it will be some act to follow next year?)’
Richard Beenstock, Ortus Secured Finance
 
Mo Mulki, CEO of Bridging & Commercial, ready to start announcing this year’s winners.
 
‘Just a quick note to thank you and all of your Team for organising a brilliant evening at The Hurlingham Club.
Mark and I had a great time and rest assured we will be back next year with a Funding 365 table!’
Brian West, Funding 365 Limited 

‘Many congratulations on pulling off a terrific event yesterday. It exceeded expectations in every regard, and the fine (-ish) weather contributed to a very enjoyable day in a special location. You should feel proud.’
Robert Sturges, Omni Capital Partners Limited
 
Winners of the Bridging Newcomer Award, Ortus Secured Finance, Richard Beenstock and Jon Salisbury 
 
Winners of the Best Bridging Broker award, SPF Short Term Finance, Andre Bartlett, Zoë Claydon and Chris Borwick and Award presenter Colin Sanders of Omni Capital 
 
Winners of the Best Commercial Broker award, Finance 4 Business Russell Martina and Award presenter Stephen Johnson of Shawbrook Bank
 
 
 
Winners of the Best Specialist Distributor award, Brightstar Financial and Award presenter Alan Cleary
 
 
Winners of the Best Bridging Legal Partner award, Brightstone Law and Award Presenter Jonathan Samuels of Dragonfly Property Finance
Winners of the Best Bridging Valuer award, De Villiers Chartered Surveyors and Masthaven’s Andrew Bloom 
 
 
Winner of the Underwriter of the year award, Zac Zorno, Lancashire Mortgage Corporation and Alan Margolis from United Trust Bank.
 
 
 
Winner of the Best Bridging BDM award, Lorenzo Satchell, Lancashire Mortgage Corporation and Award Presenter Rob Jupp
 
 
Winner of the Best Use of Technology award, Finance 4 Business, Russell Martin and Award Presenter Roger Morris
 
Winners of the Service Excellence Award, Dragonfly Property Finance
 
 
Winner of the Personality of the Year award, Rob Jupp, Brightstar Financial and Keith Aldridge of Capital Bridging 
 
 
Winners of the Development Lender of the Year award, Aldermore Bank and Award Presenter Adam Tyler 
 
 
Winners of the P2P Lender of the Year award, LendInvest, with Christian Faes and David Whittaker Mortgages for Business 
 
Winners of the Commercial Lender of the Year award, Shawbrook Bank and Russell Martin of Finance 4 Business
 
  
Winners of the Best Regulated Lender award, Precise Mortgages, Gareth Lewis with Titlesolv’s Chris Taylor
 
Winners of the Bridging Lender of the Year award, Lancashire Mortgage Corporation, Marc Goldberg and Aldermore’s Rob Lankey
 
 
Winner of the Outstanding Contribution Award, Jonathan Samuels, Dragonfly Property Finance presented by Aldermore’s Charles Haresnape
B&C guests also managed to get a chance to get creative in the Dragonfly photo booth.
                           
      
      
      
      
   
      
      
      
       
       
      
 
Congratulations to all the winners at the awards and a big thank you from B&C to everyone who sent in their kind responses.
 
 

Keywords: B&C, Awards, event, day, show, Mo Mulki, garden, party, finance, bridging, commercial, lenders

Source: Bridging & Commercial — https://bridgingandcommercial.co.uk/b-c-awards-2014-in-pictures