Aspen Bridging has announced the expansion of its sales team with two new appointments.

Ian Miller-Hawes (pictured, left), who previously worked at Aspen as its head of sales, rejoins as sales director and will be responsible for the overall management of the BDM team.

He said: “The morale at Aspen is very positive and returning to the team feels like coming home. I am very excited about the opportunity and, working with Jack and the wider team, we are fired up to increase lending consistently year-on-year by over 30% as targeted.”

Meanwhile, Mike Allen (pictured, right) joins as business development manager and will be responsible for driving new relationships and deepening existing ones with brokers. He was previously internal BDM at Octane Capital before which he worked at Brightstar as a specialist broker.

Jack Coombs, managing director at Aspen Bridging, said: “Recently we have made several key personnel decisions as we structure the business for £1bn in total lending, having recently hit the £500m mark.

“The appointments of Ian and Mike, alongside Steve, creates a sales team with the motivated and experienced people needed to help deliver on our targets.”