Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Keith Jones as its new national account manager.

Jones (pictured) has worked at the specialist buy-to-let and residential lender for the last six years in a variety of sales and adviser-facing roles, most recently as its national sales manager for its residential proposition.

In his new role, Jones will be working with a wide range of network and mortgage club, and packager/distributor businesses right across the country, helping their advisory member firms understand the Foundation product and criteria proposition, and developing relationships within those businesses to help them service their specialist lending clients.

He has over 30 years’ experience working in the mortgage and wider financial services sector, having previously worked for Lloyds, Together and The Northview Group.

Jones said: “I’m very pleased to be taking up this new role with Foundation after more than six years here in a variety of adviser-facing roles. My focus now is on developing and growing our relationships with network, mortgage club and other distributor partners to help outline our ambitious plans, and to share our specialist lending knowledge with them.

“We want to be as easy as possible to work with and to ensure advisers can find the specialist lending solutions they need for their clients.”

Grant Hendry, director of sales at Foundation Home Loans, added: “I am delighted to appoint Keith as our new national account manager. Keith has been with Foundation Home Loans for over six years and taken on a number of different roles during that time, most recently appointed as national sales manager for our residential offering.

“Our relationships with our club and network partners is fundamental to our success and Keith’s knowledge and experience of the specialist mortgage market, will further support this.”