Reporting to the bank’s CEO, Donald Kerr, she will focus on sustainably growing Cambridge & Counties real estate finance, asset finance, deposit, and marketing businesses.
Sarah was most recently director of relationship banking at The Co-operative Bank, where she revitalised the relationship banking team.
Prior to this, she spent roughly 13 years at Lloyds Banking Group in a number of senior roles, including business planning, client propositions and deal management.
She joins the bank at a time of strong growth, having registered its highest ever level of customer loans and deposits in 2022.
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Gross customer loan balances increased 6% to just over £1bn while customer deposits rose 8% to £1.1bn, with £310m in gross new lending for the year.
Commenting on her appointment, Sarah said: “Cambridge & Counties is well positioned to take further market share and I look forward to helping it achieve its ambitions.”
Donald added: “Sarah is a highly impressive individual and it’s great to have someone of her calibre join the team.
“She has very strong ideas on how to build the bank going forward and her passion for SME banking is very clear.”
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