"This is another high profile hire for the business and highlights our commitment to investing in a leadership team that can help drive our ongoing development"
Together recently separated its retail and commercial activities with the different divisions managed independently.
Peter Ball joins Together’s growing senior leadership team, which has also added Colin Kersley, ex CEO of M&S Bank, as a non-executive director to its retail board; Ron Baxter, senior advisor at the PRA, as an independent NED in its retail division; as well as Wayne Bowser, former deputy head of commercial banking at HSBC, as a group NED.
Prior to his role at Harrods Bank, Peter was product and commercial director at Virgin Money Group and senior vice president of MBNA/Bank of America.
Peter said: “Together is a unique business which has affirmed its position as a leader in the specialist finance sector over more than four decades of successful trading; providing finance to niche markets that are largely underserved by the mainstream UK lenders. The business has a great energy and a really positive business culture, with its colleagues and customers at its core, and I’m very excited to be joining Together at this time, as it continues to reshape what we think of as traditional financial services.”
Mike McTighe, chairman of Together, added: “We are delighted to have Peter on board. His wealth of experience in the financial services industry perfectly complements the skills and expertise we have built up within our core retail division. This is another high profile hire for the business and highlights our commitment to investing in a leadership team that can help drive our ongoing development, as we seek to make Together a household name across the UK.”