Foundation Home Loans has announced the appointment of Sarah Hartwell as a regional account manager.

Hartwell (pictured) starts with immediate effect and will be responsible for the South region, working with advisory firms and practices based there offering Foundation’s specialist residential and buy-to-let product solutions.

She has almost 20 years’ experience working within the specialist mortgage market in a variety of business development roles for a number of lenders including the Nationwide Building Society and, most recently, Vida Homeloans, where she spent four and a half years as a key account manager and then corporate sales manager.

Grant Hendry, director of sales at Foundation Home Loans, said: “We are very pleased to be able to announce Sarah’s appointment as our newest regional account manager joining an already strong sales team within Foundation. Sarah herself brings with her a vast amount of experience having worked across multiple lenders in a variety of sales roles over the past two decades.

“She will already be well-known to advisers across the South region and we are certain she will provide all the expertise, support and resource they need in order to support their specialist residential and buy-to-let clients.

“It’s very positive to be starting the year off with such an excellent addition to the team and we at Foundation are looking forward to delivering the product solutions advisers and their clients need throughout 2023.”