Navigate Commercial Finance appoints new business development manager
Birmingham-based Navigate Commercial Finance has expanded its team with the appointment of Adam Cooksley as business development manager.
Adam has nearly ten years’ experience in the finance and sales industry, and joins Navigate Commercial Finance from accountancy firm Jerroms, Midlands, where he also worked as a business development manager, leading the business development of the firm’s financial services
In his role at Navigate Commercial Finance Adam will work with businesses, professional advisors and strategic partners to source the most appropriate commercial finance to support their working capital needs using a network of specialist lenders. Funding solutions include invoice finance, asset based lending and cashflow loans.
Navigate Commercial Finance was established by Paul Varley in June 2021 and acts as an outsourced commercial finance team to help businesses navigate the various funding options available and works directly with businesses as well as a range of professionals including accountants, banks, non-bank funders and corporate finance specialists to support their clients when seeking financial backing.
Paul Varley, managing director at Navigate Commercial Finance explains: “Adam joins us during an exciting period of growth. In the summer we celebrated our one year anniversary and in the last year have seen circa £100m of funding enquiries from a variety of traditional and flexible finance solutions. We have secured finance for 35 businesses across a wide range of sectors. Bringing Adam into the team will help us to drive forward further success, drawing on his established strong relationships and networks within the industry. Adam has impressive business development and relationship management experience and has a solid understanding of the funding needs of SME businesses. He will be a real asset to our growing visible team and I’m looking forward to working alongside him.”
Adam Cooksley, business development manager at Navigate Commercial Finance adds: “I am thrilled to be joining the team at Navigate Commercial Finance and to be able to help SME businesses across the Midlands to access funding. We are experiencing unprecedented challenges and with many businesses struggling to find the capital needed to grow it can be difficult to know where to turn. Our role is to make the funding experience easier for both the funder and borrower. I’m looking forward to helping businesses to get the right solution to create a solid platform to develop future success.”
