Sesame Bankhall MD exits in executive team shake-up

Stephen Gazard exits after four years

Victoria McKeever
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Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) managing director Stephen Gazard is to leave after four years at the firm, as the adviser network announced executive management changes.

As part of the reshuffle sales director Mark Graves will move into the managing director role for Sesame and mortgage club PMS, while compliance & risk director Julie Sadler becomes managing director of adviser support services unit Bankhall.  Network operations director Stuart Davies will become group operations director with all three reporting to executive chairman John Cowan. Cowan said: "I am very pleased that Mark, Julie and Stuart are taking up their new roles at SBG. We wanted expand the reach of Bankhall so Julie's compliance background is well suited to this aim. "These a...

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