Mark Sanderson, who has been with Brooklands for almost four years as the company’s communications manager, has been named chief operations officer, a new position at Brooklands which was created to help oversee the expanding company’s business. Sanderson will continue to be based in Dubai.
Sanderson’s duties as communication manager will be handled by Ben Wiseman, the company’s new sales and marketing manager, a new position, again reflecting the company’s recent growth, and its need to coordinate its marketing efforts. Among Wiseman’s roles will be to look after Brooklands’ brokers and strategic partners around the world.
Wiseman, who will be based in London, comes to Brooklands from International Adviser, where he has been almost since it began publication in 2006, and where his title was associate publisher. He will be responsible for Brooklands’ sales in the UK and Europe, and for overseeing the company’s global marketing efforts.
In Brooklands’ London office, which is located near the Bank of England in the City, Wiseman will be joined by Gary Wood and Shona Kotecha, who the company said are both technical experts in the pensions’ field. Both of these roles are new, and were created to process Brooklands’ growing UK and European business.
Finally, Simon Buckerfield has been named business development manager for the Gulf region. He comes to Brooklands from Standard Bank, where he was business development manager, and he succeeds Matt Tailford, who has left Brooklands.
Paul Evans, Brooklands Pensions chief executive, said the calibre of staff joining the company was an indication of its “dedication to supporting intermediaries globally”, and its commitment to offering a varied portfolio of quality products.
The appointments follow a period of expansion at Brooklands, which was launched in 2006, and which specialises in self-invested personal pensions and international pensions. Based in Dubai, it also has offices in London, Kuala Lumpur, New Zealand and Gibraltar.
In August last year, it launched a wrap platform with more than $500bn (£300.25bn) under administration, which gives its clients access to some 10,000 mutual funds.
Around the same time, it re-launched its website, and entered into a joint venture with Castle Trust, another pensions specialist, in Gibraltar.
