Pepper Money has promoted Ryan Brailsford to the new role of director of business development.

Brailsford (pictured), who joined Pepper Money in 2016, became head of sales at the lender in 2018.

This latest promotion sees him taking on the role of director of business development, leading Pepper Money’s growing business development team in helping intermediaries to find a home for their specialist mortgage cases.

He said: “It’s a very exciting time at Pepper Money at the moment. We are broadening our proposition to help even more customers and we’re developing our Sales team to ensure we are best equipped to support our intermediary partners.

“This new role demonstrates our long-term commitment to delivering brokers the best possible service and I’m looking forward to launching some further products soon to further strengthen our proposition.”

Paul Adams, sales director at Pepper Money, added: “I’d like to offer my congratulations to Ryan on taking this new role of director of business development. It’s richly deserved and testament to the hard work and leadership he has demonstrated during his time at Pepper Money.

“II know that our business development team will thrive under his guidance and this will only benefit our intermediaries and their customers.”