NatWest Intermediary Solutions has hired Julianna Maxwell as the new field-based business development manager (BDM) and Steve Smith as a new phone-based BDM.

Maxwell joins NatWest’s intermediary business having spent the last eight years as a mortgage broker and has 15 years’ financial services experience to call on having worked for a number of different firms in the industry. Her panel will include Glasgow, Aberdeen, Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire.

Prior to joining NatWest Intermediary Solutions, Smith (pictured) spent three years as a business development manager in the audio-visual industry working alongside large technology retailers. Before that he ran his own audio-visual sales and installation business for nine years. His career started out in the Army where he served for five years as a telecommunications engineer with the Royal Signals, completing tours of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

Paul Kane, acting head of sales, NatWest Intermediary Solutions, said: “I am really pleased to be able to welcome two more talented people to our team. It’s important to recruit really high calibre people to fill BDM roles as they are effectively the face of our business. Julianna and Steve fit the bill even though they have markedly different career backgrounds.

“The key thing is that they have the right skillset and ‘can do’ attitude to maintain NatWest’s BDM reputation for being proactive, professional and helpful.”