West One makes four short-term division hires

In bridging finance, Christian Gugolz has joined as regional account manager for region one (comprising London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire), and Abul Niloy as telephone BDM.

Shaheel Tulsidas (pictured above), has joined as development finance lending director, and Sam Tibbins as senior portfolio manager in its development finance division.

Christian most recently served as head of sales at Albatross Lending Group and spent nearly eight years at MT Finance progressing to senior BDM.
Abul joins from Charleston Financial Services, where he served for over two years.

Shaheel brings over 10 years of financial services experience to West One. In his most recent role, he served as director of development finance at Invest & Fund, where he served for almost seven years.

Sam has almost a decade’s worth of experience in property finance and was associate director of origination at Shojin Property Partners for four years before joining West One.

The firm is hoping that the hires within the bridging and development finance teams will drive growth in the division, while enabling the specialist non-bank lender to accelerate deal origination and improve client service delivery.

Jez Quinn, head of sales for short term finance at West One, commented: “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, added: “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.”