Shawbrook Bank has revealed that Maeve Ward has been promoted to sales director for the secured lending division.

Ward (pictured) was previously head of sales.

Philip George, managing director for secured lending at Shawbrook Bank, said: “This is a richly deserved promotion for Maeve who has played a huge role in the outstanding success of Shawbrook’s secured business in 2013, achieving high quality record lending volumes and maintaining Shawbrook’s market leadership.

“Maeve has led the sales team in such style that brokers tells us that she is the highest quality individual in the business and that Shawbrook’s service is second to none.

“Maeve has also played a key role in innovative product development, the new Shawbrook secured system that will be implemented in Q1 2014 and the changes needed as control of secured business moves to the FCA in April.”