Brightstar Financial has hired Chris Bramham as director of mortgages.

He will be responsible for leading the specialist first charge team, developing relationships with lenders, working with existing introducers and opening up new channels of distribution.

Bramham has spent 25 years in the mortgage industry, having spent the first 13 years with Northern Rock where he lead a sales team covering London and the South East. For the past 12 years he has worked for Kings Group, which includes Metropolis Surveyors, where he became a director of the Group.

Rob Jupp, CEO at Brightstar Financial, said: “Having broken through the £500 million barrier for completions, we have conclusively proved the importance and validity of the specialist lending market to lenders and intermediaries. In order to sustain that growth from the sound platform we have built, we needed to ensure we could attract the kind of talent to help us move forward.

“Being able to announce the arrival of Chris Bramham is a moment of great personal satisfaction for me, as it shows just how far the company has come. Brightstar is really hitting its stride now and the next few years promise to be very exciting for us and for the industry we support.”

Bramham added: “Having known Rob Jupp for many years, I am delighted to be finally working with him and his hugely successful team and look forward to developing Brightstar’s first charge capability even further.

“This is an exciting time in a dynamic business and I am relishing the challenge of building on the success that Brightstar has enjoyed so far.”