Barbara Carr has been appointed as business development manager (BDM) by CDS Group.

She will be dealing with brokers in the Midlands, North, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Carr was previously head of business development at the Shepshed Building Society.

She has also been a BDM at Accord Mortgages and intermediary development manager at RBS Intermediary Partners.

She will report to the sales director, Ian Merriman, who said: “We have had a terrific response to the launch of TheCore mortgage sourcing system and the Microsoft-based ClientCore CRM solution and are lucky to have someone of Barbara’s skill to promote these products to the intermediary market.

“Barbara brings with her a vast amount of skills and experience in the UK mortgage market and we are very pleased to have her on board.”

“There is no doubt that there is a desire in the market for more modern and flexible sourcing solutions and I believe that the CDS products offer a significant improvement to existing old systems,” added Carr.

“I have spent many years working with brokers to understand how they work, and how they want to work and technology has not always closed that gap. TheCore offers a host of improvements in the fields of accuracy and flexibility and I am excited to be tasked with taking the product to the intermediary market.”