The Cambridge Building Society has appointed Mark Smitheringale as its new head of sales and marketing.

Smitheringale recently joined the mutual with his immediate objective being to lead the its mortgage, savings and investments business growth and to increase the Cambridge Building Society’s name awareness across both the City and the wider East Anglia region.

He has 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, the majority of which was spent working for the Skipton Building Society Group.

Although based in Yorkshire for the last 15 years, Smitheringale was born and educated in Peterborough. He said: “I have a great affinity with Cambridgeshire and have always admired the way the Cambridge Building Society goes about its business. In particular its determination to remain an independent