Octane Capital has recruited Gemma Salousti to its risk team as senior credit manager.

She has seven years experience within specialist lending, joining from Masthaven Bank, where she was an underwriting manager. She will report in to Matt Smith, Octane Capital’s director of risk.

Salousti said: “The risk-based, product-less approach Octane Capital have introduced is reinventing the specialist lending sector, and I’m looking forward to working closely with Matt and the team.

“I can’t wait to be involved with complex loans that require you to think outside the box rather than simply tick boxes. Vanilla lending this is not.”

“At Octane Capital, we pride ourselves on our experience and Gemma has plenty of that,” added Smith.

“Along with an instinctive understanding of risk, she is also very commercially-minded and that ability to look at the bigger picture and act as a partner is integral to how we work.”