UK fintech Chetwood Financial appoints Julian Hynd as new COO
UK challenger Chetwood Financial has appointed Julian Hynd as its new chief operations officer (COO) as of November 2023.
Julian Hynd is Chetwood Financial’s new COO (Image source: LinkedIn)
With more than three decades of experience working in the financial services industry, Chetwood says Hynd brings a “strong record of building, growing and transforming businesses” to the role.
He joins Chetwood Financial from UK-based Redwood Bank, where he worked as chief commercial officer for over a year and a half, spearheading the bank’s commercial transformation. Prior to that, he served as COO of Shawbrook Bank for nearly three years, leading operations and digital transformation.
Hynd previously held senior roles at Volkswagen Financial Services, where he led the development of its UK online savings bank; and at Ford Credit Europe (FCE Bank), where he led the development of UK online savings bank Ford Money. His earlier experience includes working in senior roles at National Savings and Investments (NS&I), Siemens and WesBank.
As COO at Chetwood, Hynd will be responsible for leading the company’s strategy with respect to its technology, operations and people. He will also help bring the ModaMortgages proposition to market later this year, Chetwood says.
Founded in 2016, Wrexham-based Chetwood Financial is a digital bank offering consumer savings products. It will soon be launching ModaMortgages, a new specialist, broker-only buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage lender.
