Richard Rowntree

Richard joined Paragon in January 2020. In his previous role he was the Managing Director of Mortgages for Bank of Ireland and he has almost three decades of Retail Banking leadership experience across five major UK banks. Richard joined the UK Finance (previously CML) Mortgage Product and Service Board in 2016 and became Chairman in 2019. Richard is a member of the Buy-to-let Committee for UK Finance. Richard is associate member of Charted Institute of Bankers and hold an honours degree in financial services. He is also non-executive Board Member for Estuary Housing Association.