Mark Blackwell has been appointed the new managing director of Xit2.

Blackwell was appointed as the mortgage data management firm’s sales director in September 2008. He was previously intermediary sales director at Alliance and Leicester and has also been head of corporate accounts and specialist lending at C&G, marketing director at The Derbyshire and group mortgage manager at the Portman Building Society. He also spent ten years at Skipton Building Society.

Blackwell said: “I’m looking forward to managing the business through these difficult times. As sales director