Clever Lending has promoted Ivan Vizor to the role of head of sales.

In his new role Vizor (pictured) will work with the intermediary market to build business across Clever Lending’s first and second charge mortgages, and its commercial and bridging finance propositions.

He said: “I am delighted to have this tremendous new opportunity to work with our fantastic team in further building the Clever brand.

“Specialist lending is a vibrant and dynamic sector right now and I’m relishing the challenge of applying my experience to further endorse our commitment to the modern broker community.”

Sam Kirtikar, Clever Lendings’ managing director, said: “Ivan is a real asset to the business and I have every confidence in him and his team to grow existing relationships and build many new ones in order to promote our service offering.

“We have ambitious growth plans and Ivan will play a key role in strengthening our distribution network and further promoting Clever Lending as the premier master broker in specialist finance.”