John Brooks has joined alternative lender Thincats as Business Origination Manager. Brooks joins the company from Natwest and having spent 42 years working with UK businesses – 30 years of which he spent working within different areas of the SME market. The past 12 years have seen John specialising in the professional services sector in Natwest and his clients have included solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, property managers and architects with turnovers of up to £50m.
Damon Walford, CDO at ThinCats, commented: “We are delighted to welcome John into the growing team at ThinCats. He joins us at a very exciting time; Q2 of 2017 is going to be a mammoth quarter. May was a record month, and the running total is at almost £15 million already in the quarter. With an incredibly diverse pipeline of loans in prospect, the second quarter of 2017 may well be going down in the ThinCats record books, and the continuing expansion of the team will only help this continue.”
In his new role as Origination Manager, John will be building the company’s loan origination capacity in London and the South East.