1st – The Exchange has appointed Eddie Watson and Chris Pitt as new senior business consultants.

Prior to joining 1st Exchange, Watson was a management consultant at Co-operative Financial Services. Before this, he worked for Focus Solutions, assisting with the development of its 360 proposition, as well as holding senior roles within Barclays Financial Planning (BFP).

Pitt also joins from Focus, where he was formerly lead business consultant. Previous career history includes five years at Sesame which involved devising and deploying strategic propositions across the group along with a variety of life, pension and mortgage related positions with AXA, Abbey National, Coventry Building Society and CMG (now Logica).

The main objective of the new roles is to assist with the development of propositions and building solutions for, and with, the Enterprise client base. Watson and Pitt will considerably strengthen 1st Exchange’s ability to engage with strategic clients on building solutions for the distribution of financial services.

Paul Yates, strategy and business development director, said: “Our dedicated Enterprise team are committed to developing tailored technology solutions for larger financial institutions. Both Eddie and Chris have extensive experience and insight across the financial services market with particular expertise in the management of multi-channel product distribution. I feel confident that with their vast wealth of knowledge they will help shape the proposition – providing quantifiable benefits to our clients with complete consultancy and support every step of the way.”””