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As one of the biggest financial services companies in the UK, we have an highly efficient team to ensure the smooth running of our retirement business. Our distribution team specialise in helping you to grow your business through our range of retirement solutions. Keep reading to find out a little bit about who we are.
Our Distribution Directors
What we're doing to help you
Jon Scannell, Distribution Director, Guaranteed Income
"Whether we’re speaking at a conference or visiting a local Advisers offices, we're partnering with firms to meet business and client aims and our ambitions are clear, we aim to educate and inform of the importance of achieving the right balance between guaranteed and more flexible investments or income guarantees and Flexible Access Drawdown.
We build consultative relationships and focus on understanding how we can help, assist and develop profitable business relationships"
Dave Stratton, Distribution Director, Later Life Mortgages
"A clear desire to build mutually beneficial and profitable business relationships is at the heart of everything we do.
Whether you're an experienced later life adviser or new to lending in retirement, our experienced team will help you access our market leading Lifetime Mortgage and Retirement Interest Only products to meet the needs of your clients. We offer a broad range of business development support, from help with individual and complex cases through to the latest industry insight and ideas to help grow your business."
Our distribution team
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Broker Quotes Specialists
Our Broker Quotes Specialists can help you with your quotes for our guaranteed income products.
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Simon Wiggins
Senior Broker Quotes SpecialistTelephone Account Managers
Our Telephone Account Managers can help with everyday queries, see our team below.
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Sarah Gauci
Senior Telephone Account Manager![Sarah Guaci]()
Sarah Gauci
Senior Telephone Account ManagerSarah has worked in the insurance industry for 18 years and has experience in life insurance, pensions and general insurance.
Sarah offers a bespoke service to her panel of advisers with support and guidance. Sarah likes to understand what is important to her advisers and their clients and then explains how a layered approach may assist in their retirement journey.
Email: sarah.gauci@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 432135
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David Price
Telephone Account Manager![David Price]()
David Price
Telephone Account ManagerDavid has over 10 years’ experience in account management and joined Retirement Income in 2018.
As a Telephone Account Manager, David is building strong relationships with his advisers to help them get the most from our range of retirement solutions.
Email: david1.price@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 432080
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Kate Mason
Telephone Account Manager![Kate Mason]()
Kate Mason
Telephone Account ManagerKate has worked in Retirement Income at Legal & General for 16 years.
During this time she has been involved with some major changes including simplification, RDR and pension freedoms.
In her role as a Telephone Account Manager, she helps support advisers and clients on their retirement journey.
You can reach Kate, Monday to Thursday.
Email: kate.mason@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 432662
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Ben Evans
Telephone Account Manager![Ben Evans]()
Ben Evans
Telephone Account ManagerBen has worked for Retirement Income for five years.
As a Telephone Account Manager he'll be working with advisers to demonstrate where our retirement income solutions can fit and how they can be used to suit a variety of client needs.
Email: benjamin.evans@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 355395
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James Howson
Telephone Account Manager![James Howson]()
James Howson
Telephone Account ManagerJames has worked in financial services since 2018, specialising mainly in retirement income and investments. He joined the Telephone Account Management team in February 2022.
He is currently working towards completing his Financial Planning Diploma with the CII and has also completed qualifications with CISI.
Coming from a customer service and sales background, he understands the importance of building strong business relationships and ensuring that advisers feel as though they are in safe hands.
Email: james.howson@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 432659
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Daniel James
Telephone Account Manager![Daniel James]()
Daniel James
Telephone Account ManagerDan has worked in Retirement Income at Legal & General for five years.
He joined the Telephone Account Management team in February 2022.
His aim as an Account Manager is to build strong and lasting relationships with advisers to ensure they get the most out of Legal & General's retirement solutions.
Email: daniel.james@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 432230
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Jenna Miles
Distribution Sales Support![Jenna Miles]()
Jenna Miles
Distribution Sales SupportJenna has worked for Legal & General for 18 years. She previously worked in our endowments and pensions departments, before moving across to Retirement Income in 2009.
She provides sales support to our account managers, customers and distributors. She is the ‘go-to’ person if you require any help with adviser portals.
Email: jenna.miles@landg.com
Telephone: 02920 355160
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Kieran Campbell
Telephone Sales Manager![Kieran Campbell]()
Kieran Campbell
Telephone Sales ManagerKieran has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. He has been with Legal & General since 2014. He moved to Retirement Income in 2018, having previously worked for our insurance business.
Kieran leads our Telephone Account Managers and the Broker Quote Specialist Teams who are based in Cardiff
Email: kieran.campbell@landg.com
Telephone: 07909 004408
Key Account Managers
Our Key Account Managers are based nationwide to support advisers face to face.
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Jon Scannell
Distribution Director![Jon Scannell]()
Jon Scannell
Distribution DirectorJon joined Legal & General in 2018 to create, drive and deliver the intermediary strategy to maximise intermediary distribution in the Retirement Income business.
He has a specific focus on building on Legal & General’s commitment to advisers in the Retirement Income sector. Prior to this, he spent 12 years as a Pension drawdown specialist at MetLife UK where he held various senior roles, the last of which was as Sales Director with responsibilities over their UK operation.
Jon has worked for some of the world’s largest Financial Services organisations and has a wealth of Sales and Distribution experience spanning 25 years.
Email: jon.scannell@landg.com
Telephone: 07392 121855
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Basil Anderson
Key Account Manager - South West![Basil Anderson]()
Basil Anderson
Key Account Manager - South WestBasil joined Legal & General in September 2018 from ARAG plc, a legal expenses insurance specialist where he managed the company’s key insurer relationships.
He previously worked for Allianz as a Partnership Development Manager creating new corporate partner relationships with banks, building societies, large retailers and vehicle manufacturers.
Basil works with our key accounts in the South West of England, helping them to grow their business through our range of retirement solutions.
Email: basil.anderson@landg.com
Telephone: 07393 753622
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Ian Ferguson DipPFS
Key Account Manager - Midlands![Ian Ferguson]()
Ian Ferguson DipPFS
Key Account Manager - MidlandsIan started at Legal & General in March 2019 and joined us from LV= where he was responsible for distributing their pre and post retirement propositions including fixed term annuities (FTA) to a panel of advisers across the Midlands, including some of the major pension and annuity distributors.
He previously worked at AIG promoting and distributing ‘Guaranteed Drawdown’ to intermediaries in the Midlands area. Ian has attained the Pensions Transfer qualification, AF7.
Ian works with our key accounts in the Midlands, helping them to grow their business through our range of retirement solutions.
Email: ian.ferguson1@landg.com
Phone: 07384 901033
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Terry Jordan
Key Account Manager - London & South East![Terry Jordan]()
Terry Jordan
Key Account Manager - London & South EastTerry has worked for Legal & General since 2007 and moved to Retirement Income in late 2013.
Before moving to Retirement Income he worked in our Protection business helping advisers to get the most out of our online servicing system.
Terry works with our key accounts in the South East of England, helping them to grow their business through our range of retirement solutions.
Email: terry.jordan2@landg.com
Telephone: 07739 855520
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Tom Carroll
Key Account Manager - North![Tom Carroll]()
Tom Carroll
Key Account Manager - NorthTom started at Legal & General in January 2021 and joined us from Old Mutual, a specialist platform business where he was responsible for distributing their investment proposition to advisers.
Tom previously worked at MetLife, with distribution responsibilities for their pre and post retirement propositions including unit linked guaranteed drawdown and fixed term annuities.
Tom works with our key accounts in the north of England, helping them to grow their business through our range of retirement solutions.
Email: tom.carroll@landg.com
Telephone: 07385 411473
Strategic Partnerships
Our strategic partnerships team works alongside the distribution team and are responsible for wider engagement through dedicated relationships with service providers, networks and professional bodies.
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Cecilia Furner
Strategic Partnerships Director![Cecilia Furner]()
Cecilia Furner
Strategic Partnerships DirectorCecilia joined Legal & General in 2018 and heads up the Strategic Partnerships team. The team is responsible for developing successful strategic relationships within the intermediary market as well as a focus on developing our Annuity Partnership opportunities in the market.
Cecilia’s career stretches over 20 years in financial services, during which time she has held key roles at various providers.
She is a member of the Personal Finance Society and has a postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning.Email: cecilia.furner@landg.com
Telephone: 07392 101814
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Andy Powell
Strategic Partnerships Manager![Andy Powell]()
Andy Powell
Strategic Partnerships ManagerAndy started at Legal & General in August 2018 as a Key Account Manager, before moving to the role of Strategic Partnerships Manager in March 2020.
Andy works alongside our Strategic Partnerships Director, managing relationships with our Strategic Partners, and also has responsibility for our relationships with specialist annuity distributors.
He has previously worked at Royal London & LV= with distribution responsibilities for their pre and post retirement propositions to panel of advisers across the Midlands and North West, including some of the major pension and annuity distributors.
Email: andrew.powell@landg.com
Telephone: 07384 798254
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Jemma Paterson
Strategic Relationships Manager![Jemma Paterson]()
Jemma Paterson
Strategic Relationships ManagerJemma joined Legal & General in April 2020 as a Strategic Relationships Manager managing the relationship with some of our Strategic Partners, including our partnerships with Aegon, Pension Bee, Prudential, ReAssure, Aon and Sun Life Financial of Canada. In addition, Jemma manages the relationship with The Idol who provide our Whole of Market Annuity Panel, Annuity Ready.
Jemma joined from the investment management company, Invesco, where she worked as a Client Relationship Manager in the UK Institutional Team. Jemma has worked in financial services for over 20 years for companies including Equiniti plc, Lloyd’s of London, Fortress Investment Group and The Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
Email: jemma.paterson@landg.com
Telephone: 07385 367516
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Intermediary Sales
Our team of Account Managers are based nationwide to support advisers in accessing on our full range of later life mortgage products.
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Rob Miles
Head of Intermediary Sales![as - retirement - resources - images - people - rob miles]()
Rob Miles
Head of Intermediary SalesRob has been working at Legal & General for 31 years. Rob started his career within Operations and moved to Distribution in 2002.
This combination of service and sales experience helps him truly understand what is important to advisers.
Rob has always operated within the IFA community and in June 2017 he was appointed to lead the IFA distribution channel within Legal & General Home Finance. This move has allowed him to take a relatively new proposition (later life mortgages) out to a well-established group of advisers.
Email: rob.miles@landg.com
Telephone: 07979 534637
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Chris Nown
Key Account Manager - South![Chris Nown]()
Chris Nown
Key Account Manager - SouthChris joined Legal & General Home Finance in 2018, having previously spent two years at Royal London promoting their trading platform Ascentric to financial advisers.
Before his time at Royal London, Chris worked for Legal & General for 20 years. During this time he worked in various customer facing roles, including line management and operations, as well as a Business Development Manager in our Pension and Investment business.
Chris is now responsible for helping advisers across the UK understand the value of our later life mortgages proposition.
Email: chris.nown@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07384 435699
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Michelle Peskett
Key Account Manager - Central![Michelle Peskett]()
Michelle Peskett
Key Account Manager - CentralMichelle joined Legal & General Home Finance as a Key Account Manager in March 2019. She is responsible for developing relationships in the intermediary sales channel and supporting advisers in the later life mortgages sector. Michelle helps advisers to understand the value of our later life mortgages proposition.
With over 19 years of experience in the financial services industry, Michelle has previously worked as a financial adviser providing financial advice to both mortgage and wealth clients.
Email: michelle.peskett@landghomefinance.com
Tel: 07469 406847
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Sara Freer
Key Account Manager - North Midlands![Sara Freer]()
Sara Freer
Key Account Manager - North MidlandsSara joined the Distribution team as a Key Account Manager in July 2019. She has a wide understanding of the Legal & General Home Finance business, having previously worked within Operations as both a Customer Services and an Underwriting Manager.
She is now responsible for developing relationships in the intermediary sales channel, supporting advisers in the later life mortgages sector. Her knowledge of both sales and service means she has a great understanding of what is important to both our brokers and our customers.
Prior to Legal & General, Sara spent nine years at NFU Mutual within the Life side of the business, as well as spending some time as mortgage advisor.
Email: sara.freer@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07387 253922
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Jaime Lilly
Key Account Manager - London![Jaime Lilly]()
Jaime Lilly
Key Account Manager - LondonJaime joined Legal & General Home Finance as a Key Account Manager in 2020 having moved across from Legal & General Investment Management, where she spent two years as a Senior Investment Sales Manager.
With over 13 years experience in financial services Jaime has supported advisers with mortgages, pensions, investments and retirement solutions. She joins the Wealth broker channel to help advisers understand the later life lending sector and how this can play a key part in financial planning in retirement.
Email: jaime.lilly@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07385 389504
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Dan Borrill
Key Account Manager - North![Dan Borrill]()
Dan Borrill
Key Account Manager - NorthDan joined Legal & General Home Finance in 2021. He is responsible for building and developing relationships with wealth and mortgage advisers, supporting them with all aspects of later life lending. Dan uses his financial advice expertise to understand the ever changing needs of both advisers and clients.
Prior to Legal & General, Dan spent a year launching adviser propositions at Aviva which included producing sales guidance, sales processes and compliance frameworks. Previous to this, as a qualified financial planner, Dan advised clients on a range of products, including investments, pensions, mortgages, protection and IHT.
Email: dan.borrill@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07384 798260
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Tina Robinson
Telephone Account Manager - South and North![Tina Robinson]()
Tina Robinson
Telephone Account Manager - South and NorthTina has been working at Legal & General Home Finance since 2015, and became a Telephone Account Manager in 2017.
Tina is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with independent financial advisers and firms that specialise in wealth management.
Email: tina.robinson@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 0121 712 2722
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Sally Richards
Telephone Account Manager - London and North Midlands![Sally Richards]()
Sally Richards
Telephone Account Manager - London and North MidlandsSally joined Legal & General Home Finance in 2019 as a Telephone Account Manager.
She is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships in the intermediary sales channel, supporting advisers in the later life mortgages sector.
She has over ten years’ experience in relationship management, having previously worked for Lex Autolease as a customer relationship manager and for Halifax as a banking adviser both within Lloyds Banking Group.
Email: sally.richards@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 0121 712 3821
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Chris Cassidy
Telephone Account Manager - Central, Wales and Scotland![Chris Cassidy]()
Chris Cassidy
Telephone Account Manager - Central, Wales and ScotlandChris has been working at Legal & General Home Finance since 2016.
With a wide breadth of experience across both the Sales Support and Customer Outcomes teams, he understands how to communicate with both customers and advisers.
Chris became a Telephone Account Manager in September 2019. He is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with independent financial advisers who take an holistic approach to their clients retirement proposition.
Email: chris.cassidy@landghomefinance.com
Tel: 0121 712 2743
Specialist Broker Sales
Our specialist team use their wealth of experience to support firms who solely focus on later life mortgages.
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John Coffey
Head of Specialist Broker Sales![John Coffey]()
John Coffey
Head of Specialist Broker SalesJohn has worked for Legal & General for 12 years, moving to Legal & General Home Finance in 2015. He previously worked in the Equity Release world in the 90’s with Stalwart Assurance and Britannic Retirement Solutions.
John currently heads up our specialist channel, supporting the business of our largest distributors.
Email: john.coffey@landg.com
Telephone: 07894 259602
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Jo Wilson
Key Account Manager![Jo Wilson]()
Jo Wilson
Key Account ManagerJo has been in the equity release industry since 2003, helping to develop a lifetime mortgage business from scratch which was acquired by Legal & General in 2015 to become Legal & General Home Finance.
Jo enjoys her role as our Key Account Manager, working closely with our top accounts to help them grow their business through our range of later life mortgages. She also provides product training, when required.
Email: jo.wilson@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07796 443517
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Amanda Day
Key Account Manager![Amanda Day]()
Amanda Day
Key Account ManagerAmanda joined Legal & General Home Finance in 2020, bringing with her over thirty years of experience in the financial services industry. She started her career in 1987 at NPI, a small pensions company. Once NPI expanded into equity release in 1995, Amanda quickly progressed from a telephone adviser, to a field adviser covering the Midlands all the way to the tip of Scotland.The company became known as In Retirement Services.
In 2005, Amanda joined Aegon as a telephone account manager, advising on their pensions and investments and eventually their guaranteed income products. Amanda returned to equity release in 2014 when she joined More2life. By 2016, Amanda was the organisation’s sole BDM covering the whole of the UK.
Amanda now plays a key part within our specialist channel, working closely with our top accounts to help them grow their business through our range of later life mortgages.
Amanda won “BDM of the Year” in both the Financial Reporter Awards and the Equity Release Awards in 2018.
Email: amanda.day@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07385 347 724
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Anastasia Pantelli
Telephone Account Manager![Anastasia Pantelli]()
Anastasia Pantelli
Telephone Account ManagerAnastasia joined Legal & General Home Finance in 2016, working in the Sales Support team, before becoming a Telephone Account Manager in 2017.
Email: anastasia.pantelli@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 0121 712 2792
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Claire Bennetts
Telephone Account Manager![Claire Bennetts]()
Claire Bennetts
Telephone Account ManagerClaire has been at Legal & General Home Finance since 2018. In that time she has progressed from Sales Support into a Telephone Account Manager role.
She is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships in the Specialist Equity Release channel, supporting brokers in the later life mortgages sector.
Email: claire.bennetts@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 0121 712 3821
Sales Support
Our Sales Support team can help with everyday queries, including registering for our application portal and providing the latest product information.
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Jatinder Singh
Sales Support Manager![Jatinder Singh]()
Jatinder Singh
Sales Support ManagerJatinder has been working in Financial Services for over 16 years and joined Legal & General Home Finance in 2020.
Most recently he has worked in Management with Halifax Bank and Lloyds Banking Group. In these roles he covered Lending, Savings and Commercial banking.
Jatinder leads our Sales Support teams in Solihull.
Email: jatinder.singh@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 03330 048 444
Business development
Our business development team works alongside the distribution team and are responsible for wider engagement through dedicated relationships with service providers, networks and professional bodies.
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Dave Stratton
Distribution Director![Dave Stratton]()
Dave Stratton
Distribution DirectorDave has over 30 years’ experience in financial services and working with intermediary firms. Before joining Legal & General Home Finance in April 2020 he was Group Sales Director for Curtis Banks, a specialist pension provider, and prior to that held a number of senior distribution roles at AXA Wealth.
He is responsible for driving the distribution strategy through our intermediary channels, delivering against our ambition to grow the market and helping advisers to recognise the role of lifetime mortgages in meeting client needs.
Dave is chartered through the CII and a member of the Personal Finance Society, holding a Diploma and IMC.
Email: dave.stratton@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07385 347730
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Nick Birdseye
Head of Strategic Relationships![Nick Birdseye]()
Nick Birdseye
Head of Strategic RelationshipsNick is the Head of Strategic Relationships for Legal & General Home Finance. He is responsible for developing distribution partner relationships with Networks, DA firms, Mortgage Clubs and Affinities; helping those businesses enter and flourish in the later life mortgages sector.
Nick joined Legal & General in 2012 after 18 years with Aviva. Nick has a deep understanding of delivering advice to both Lifetime Mortgage and Wealth Management customers having led national salesforces at both Aviva and Legal & General. In addition to significant B2B and D2C experience, Nick previously secured Legal & General Home Finance's bank Lifetime Mortgage distribution agreements with NatWest, Virgin Money, Santander and the Co-operative Bank and understands the challenges of meeting customer needs across all markets.
Email: nick.birdseye@landg.com
Telephone: 07738 375182
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Marie Catch
Head of Retirement Mortgage Market Development![]()
Marie Catch
Head of Retirement Mortgage Market DevelopmentMarie has 20 years’ experience within the financial services industry. She began in mortgage adviser training and development at the West Bromwich Building Society. She then moved to Legal & General, where she has worked across our insurance divisions and for the Mortgage Club for many years, working with specialist broker firms, lenders and regulatory bodies.
Marie now heads up the mortgage broker channel for Legal & General Home Finance, supporting brokers in their transition into the lifetime space and helping them to achieve the right client outcomes.
Marie won “Woman in Later Life Lending” in Financial Reporter’s Women’s Recognition Award in 2019.
Email: marie.catch@landg.com
Telephone: 07738 696121
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Darren Arulvasagam
Strategic Account Manager![Darren Arulvasagam]()
Darren Arulvasagam
Strategic Account ManagerDarren has nearly 30 years’ public and private sector experience, having worked in banking, lending, property and business development. His career has seen him cover the entire product lifecycle from theory to execution and ultimately wind down.
A qualified accountant, project manager and chartered banker, his wealth of service, sales and proposition knowledge helps him recognise the importance of meeting client needs and the role lifetime mortgages can play in holistic financial planning.
Darren joined the Legal & General Home Finance team in 2021 and is a Strategic Account Manager. He is responsible for managing relationships with, and developing distribution from, our Strategic Partners with a particular focus on major networks.
Email: d.arul@landghomefinance.com
Telephone: 07384 901073
