UK-based asset manager Aviva Investors has named Gregor Bamert as head of commercial finance origination.

UK-based asset manager Aviva Investors has named Gregor Bamert as head of commercial finance origination.

Bamert joins the business later this year and will be based in London, reporting to Barry Fowler, managing director, Aviva Commercial Finance.

He will lead origination for the business across the UK real estate market and seek to broaden the lending capability and offering of the commercial finance team.

Bamert comes from Barclays, where he spent 14 years in a number of roles across commercial financing. He was latterly managing director and head of London real estate in the corporate banking team, where he was responsible for delivering products and services to London-based real estate clients.

Aviva Commercial Finance managing a loan book of around £13 bn, of which more than £9 bn is UK commercial property finance and £4 bn is healthcare and PFI-related loans.