The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has promoted Victoria Clark to the new position of head of lending.

Formerly head of equity release, Clark (pictured) takes on the wider head of lending role focusing on developing the full TRM lending proposition for all member firms and their advisers.

Reporting to Amanda Wilson, Clark will work closely with TRM’s head of insurance, Amy Wilson, and head of lender and provider relationships, Anita White, and will be looking at new accreditation areas as well as driving growth and new initiatives to support advisers.

Clark has worked at TRM for nearly seven years in a variety of roles with a previous, specific focus on equity release and later life lending. She is also a director of TRM’s later life lending proposition, the Later Life Lending Network.

Clark said: “I’m very excited to be taking this next step within the network in this new head of lending role. Having specialised in equity release and later life lending for the last six years, the growth into all other lending options as a whole is a natural progression and even more so with the mainstream-later life lending line becoming more blurred among borrowers and the lending/product propositions they can access.

“We have some intriguing new initiatives planned for our members in terms of new adviser accreditations and future developments. We are also going to be concentrating on sector-wide solutions as a whole, as opposed to single products, so we can showcase the wider diversification options available through our businesses and ultimately how we can help advisers deliver the positive solutions customers deserve.

“As part of my new role, I will be working hard on these projects with our various teams, and we will be letting members know of our new initiatives as they happen. It’s an exciting time for TRM as we broaden our offering to member firms.”