NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed five new business development managers (BDMs).

Three of the BDMS are field-based and two phone-based.

Charlotte Tapp has joined as a field-based BDM covering Northamptonshire, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Luton, Leighton Buzzard and Oxfordshire. She has 17 years’ financial services experience to call on, having worked for NatWest for 11 years, mainly as a personal mortgage adviser, followed by three years as a broker.

Katie Welch has also joined as a field-based BDM. She spent nine years working in the intermediary mortgage sector with Yorkshire Building Society and Accord and has also run a successful management consultancy. She will be working with a panel of brokers in County Durham, Sunderland, Teesside and parts of Yorkshire.

Ele Baker will be working as a field-based BDM in the Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge areas. She has around five years’ experience of the mortgage industry having previously worked as a mortgage consultant with Bairstow Eves and for the New Homes Group on the mortgage helpline.

Robert Dowthwaite has joined the phone-based BDM team in Norwich where he will have a panel of brokers in North London, Northampton and Slough. Dave Flock is another new member of the phone-based BDM team.

Mark Bullard, head of sales at NatWest Intermediary Solutions said: “Our BDMs have a great reputation for being dedicated to the needs of their brokers and customers. We only want the best people in the business to join our team so I am delighted with the quality of these new appointments, which will give us greater coverage across the country. They all possess great business relationship skills, a desire to support their customers and the drive to be successful.

“I am sure they will enjoy working with their panels of brokers in what promises to be a very busy few months.”