UK specialist property lender Octopus Property has appointed Sean Deacon as head of Core Credit, effective immediately, to support the company in its ambitions to grow its loan book to over £1 bn (€1.13 bn) during 2018.
An industry veteran with over twenty years’ experience of working in credit and risk, Deacon joins from Amicus, where he was Group head of Credit.
Prior to this he held senior roles at Harrods Bank, Dollar Financial, Credit Suisse and UBS, managing UK and International teams covering property related lending for the residential, commercial and development sectors.
Octopus Property has doubled its origination volumes over the past 24 months, launching a number of new products as part of its Lifecycle Lending proposition, while increasing the size of its team from 40 people in January 2017 to more than 60 today.
