Having worked in the financial services sector for over 15 years, Scott has extensive experience in property lending, development finance and bridging loans. As an expert in specialist lending, Scott established Roma Finance in 2008, reinventing and simplifying the bridging process to materially reduce completion times to less than a third of the industry standard.

Scott’s vision for Roma Finance is to put customers at the centre of the process and increase efficiencies to benefit all involved parties, ultimately helping customers create wealth for themselves and their families.

Robert helped establish the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) as an independent entity on 1st February 2012. He joined the former parent trade body, AIFA, in October 2006, initially looking after the Association of Finance Brokers and from 2008, AMI. He lobbies government, regulators and other policy-makers, liaising with fellow trade bodies and briefing the national and trade press.

Robert brings a wealth of industry experience to the trade body having held a number of front line sales roles in personal, private and corporate banking, combined with experience in marketing, training and internal audit with both HSBC and Santander.

Robert served five years as a non-executive director of the Buckinghamshire Building Society. He is now a non-executive director of the Darlington Building Society and advises the Bank of England as a member of the Residential Property Forum.

Josh joined Octane in early 2018 as a business development manager. Five and a half years later he now holds the position of sales and marketing director and is part of the firm’s senior management team.

Josh’s experience in managing intermediary relationships spans both private equity and property finance; seeing him hold positions at GMAC RFC, Octopus Investments and Mariana Capital, before joining Octane. Josh has found his passion in specialist lending; he enjoys working on complex cases and helping his brokers to find solutions for their clients.

Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, spending much of this time in the mortgage market. He is a highly focused and driven business leader with an excellent record of business growth across a variety of senior roles.

Through his vast experience, Andrew has extensive knowledge of the specialist lending market, and is driven by his strong values and customer focus. Within the industry, Andrew is well respected and renowned for building long term relationships with a genuine ‘win-win’ mentality.

Andrew joined West One in 2019 and is the managing director of the specialist lender’s Buy-to-Let business. He has been instrumental in developing one of the most comprehensive product ranges in the BTL market.

Colin started his finance career providing credit on the council estates of East London in the eighties. His career took him from door stop lending to secured lending as a broker, before switching from poacher to gamekeeper and forging a 30-year career as a lender.

Firstly, by providing second charge mortgages in the nineties, then subprime mortgages, before they became a dirty word in the noughties. Colin became the CEO of GE Capital’s UK lending arm in 2001, before going on to set up Money Partners, a loan and mortgage lender which sold out to Goldman Sachs in 2007.

After the credit crunch Colin discovered the world of bridging finance. Initially he set up a property finance business for the Candy Brothers - Omni Capital in 2010, before going on to do it for himself in 2017 where he set up a privately owned business, Tuscan Capital, where today he is CEO.

Duncan Kreeger is the founder and CEO of TAB. With a career spanning over two decades, Duncan has built and sold £120m valuation business and he has successfully managed over £500m of private capital. His expertise extends to completing secured loans worth an impressive £2.5bn.

In 2018, Duncan founded TAB, a pioneering property finance and investment firm that revolutionises the industry. With a commitment to trust, transparency, and simplicity, Duncan is reshaping the way people invest in property.