Pepper Money hires additional two BDMs

March 30, 2026 by Brendan O'Neill

Lenders

Pepper Money has announced the recruitment of a further two regional business development managers (BDMs), as it seeks to boost the support it offers mortgage advisors.

The specialist lender has brought in BDMs to cover the South East and London. Steve Bailey will be taking on that role for the first of those regions, with Grace Bennett appointed to the role for London. This will be the first time that Pepper Money has been able offer advisors based in that city dedicated field support of this kind.

Bennett and Bailey will mainly be working with advisors who have clients with complicated financial situations. That includes people with difficulties affording standard mortgages, people with historic credit blips and self-employed people. These are the main customers for specialist lenders.

Both of the new appointments have lots of industry experience. Bailey has worked for numerous specialist lenders, such as LiveMore, Bluestone and Landbay. He has also been employed within the later life market at OneFamily and Lighthouse Group.

Bennett has been in the industry nearly a decade, most of which has been spent at Family Building Society. She began there as a telephone BDM, before graduating to working in the field.

Ryan Brailsford from Pepper Money said to Financial Reporter that the company was happy to bring both aboard. He then added:

“Introducing dedicated support in London, alongside expanding our coverage in the South East, ensures we are well positioned to work more closely with brokers as demand for specialist lending continues to grow.”

More advisors are focusing on that market after completing CeMAP courses.