Specialist lender Spring Finance has announced the appointment of Owen Bentley as head of sales in its bridging division.

Bentley (pictured) joins Spring from United Trust Bank where he led its bridging sales team.

He will play a key role in driving the growth of the bridging division at Spring, as well as managing intermediary relationships predominantly in the South West region. He will report into sales director of bridging, Jim Baker.

Baker said: “Owen is one of the most highly regarded sales leaders in our market. It is an exciting time for Spring as we continue to build our specialist bridging proposition and it is a clear demonstration of our ambitions and achievements to date to be able to secure someone of Owen’s talent.

“I am very pleased that he has joined our sales team and look forward to working closely with him to grow the business.”

Bentley added: “I’m tremendously excited to be joining Spring at this stage in their journey to help them build on what has already been an incredibly successful launch into the bridging market.

What has been clear from my conversations to date is that strong funding lines, clear appetite to lend and an ability to provide creative solutions for clients with all types of funding requirements puts Spring in an incredibly strong position to continue to grow and succeed further. I look forward to using my experience to contribute across all aspects of our bridging offering, as well as getting back to what we all love doing the most which is helping our broker partners to help more clients and complete more business.”