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Rozario Harris & Co's Andrea Rozario was recently appointed as first director general of Safe Home Income Plans (SHIP). She tells Helen Morrissey about her future plans as well as how the perception of equity release is changing

Tell us about your career to date: I started out as a mortgage adviser for a large estate agent in the North back in 1993. After several years I decided I wanted to broaden my horizons and take a different path. I went back to university to study for a business degree and after graduation I worked in the mobile phone industry as a marketing manager. I moved down South just over five years ago and set up a business with my husband within the mobile phone industry, however the pull of financial services was too strong to resist and I set up a business in 2004 dealing with mainstream mortg...

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