The Team

Our business is built around our unrivalled financial services industry expertise. Our experts have built successful careers in governance, risk, compliance and due diligence.

Responsibility for client services, project management and the quality outputs we are renowned for, lies with our talented team. Each member has significant technical expertise; they are all approachable and professional, reflecting the way we run our business.

Our Senior Team

Brian Pitt

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Brian Pitt

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Brian is a co-founder of Rockstead and brings extensive experience managing companies at director level. Brian is well known in the mortgage sector, having experience from building societies in the 1980’s through to specialist lenders in the 90’s and 00’s. He has built several successful management teams in the financial services sector over the past 40 years, including internationally.

Email:brian.pitt@rockstead.co.uk

Richard Gater

Director & Co-Founder

Richard Gater

Director & Co-Founder

Richard is a co-founder of Rockstead and has vast experience of running credit, risk and compliance areas across Europe various retail and investment banks, having held senior positions over the past 35 years. He is responsible for client services within Rockstead, utilising his technical and market knowledge to ensure our proposition keeps up to date with market trends.

Email:richard.gater@rockstead.co.uk

Helen Bramham

Chief Operating Officer

Helen Bramham

Chief Operating Officer

Helen has been involved in the financial services industry for over 25 years and has held senior manager and executive team positions with building societies, banks and business process outsource companies. A lending specialist, she has experience of new originations, customer services, collections, risk and compliance. Helen has responsibility for operations across the UK and Europe.

Email:helen.bramham@rockstead.co.uk

Erik Bergstrom

Chief Financial Officer

Erik Bergstrom

Chief Financial Officer

Erik has over 25 years’ experience gained internationally as a CFO and including a number of board positions. He is a qualified accountant and marketeer and brings a wealth of experience gained worldwide across different industries, including banking, insurance, corporate finance and fintech arenas. Erik has group responsibilities for finance and technology.

Email:erik.bergstrom@rockstead.co.uk

John Barbour

Chief Commercial Officer

John Barbour

Chief Commercial Officer

John’s career covers all aspects of residential and commercial lending, from heading up arrears/litigation, operations, credit management departments through to managing multi-client lending portfolios at servicing company. He has also headed up a commercial mortgage lender as MD. His experience of securitisation, risk, governance and productivity improvements over 30 years adds extensive experience to the team.

Email:john.barbour@rockstead.co.uk

Richard Angell

Head of Sales

Richard Angell

Head of Sales

Richard is an experienced senior manager who has worked within mainstream and specialist mortgages, including residential, specialist buy to let, bridging and commercial lending for over 30 years. His previous roles include head of sales and head of national accounts and he has a deep understanding of the UK mortgage market. He leads our team of highly skilled relationship managers.

Email:richard.angell@rockstead.co.uk

Penny Greenaway

Head of Operations

Penny Greenaway

Head of Operations

Penny has over 25 years’ financial services experience working at senior manager level within lending and quality assurance arenas for high street banks. She also has experience of the IFA sector specialising in pensions and investments for a national network. She is responsible for the execution and delivery of high-quality outputs through our project management team.

Email:Penny.greenaway@rockstead.co.uk