LiveMore expands team with new underwriter and key account managers

Later life lender, LiveMore, has appointed two new key account managers for the North and Midlands alongside a new mortgage underwriter.

Claire Aston is key account manager for the Midlands, Aaron Farrell has joined as key account manager for the North, and Leah Chiakli is LiveMore's new underwriter.

Aston has a strong financial services background, working for high street and challenger banks for more than 20 years in client relationship management and strategic account growth. 

Farrell has worked in financial services for more than 15 years and both key account managers will be tasked with building new and existing intermediary connections whilst growing awareness of LiveMore.

Chiakli has worked in the mortgage industry for the last four years, with experience gained across first and second charge mortgages. 

Les Pick, director of intermediary sales at LiveMore, said: “Last year we generated year-on-year growth of 300% in revenue and 100% in lending. Aaron, Claire and Leah will help us continue to build on that as we move through what is already a really exciting 2025 at LiveMore.

“As key account managers, Aaron and Claire will be supporting intermediaries as we launch new initiatives to support advisers of all levels of proficiency in the mid-to-later life market.

“As well as growing our teams with great people, we continue to develop our technology with our market-leading LiveMore Mortgage Matcher. It’s a quick and easy broker tool that helps advisers sift through more than 250 products spanning standard capital and repayment, standard interest-only, retirement interest-only and lifetime mortgages. In as little as five minutes, brokers can share a PDF document of suitable options with their clients, helping provide good customer outcomes in line with the Consumer Duty.”