About Us – An Experienced Brokerage with a Modern Vision

Gerard is a driven young man with great ambition to grow Boon Brokers to a national level. His constant endeavour to improve the company’s market offering has led to the development of this website. There are many other exciting projects, that Gerard is coordinating, which will launch in the near future.

Gerard is a qualified independent mortgage, equity release and insurance adviser. Advice and arrangement is offered for the following:

• Residential mortgages
• Buy to let mortgages
• Commercial mortgages
• Lifetime mortgages
• Home reversion plans
• Income protection
• Life assurance/insurance

Gerard is a graduate from the University of Leeds. A highlight of his academic career was the submission of his dissertation project. It was titled: “Artificial Intelligence in Financial Intermediation: An Investigation into the Prospect of Robo-Advice Developments for Independent Mortgage Brokers in the United Kingdom”.

Since graduating from university, despite working in an office role, Gerard has maintained an active lifestyle. You are likely to spot Gerard in a certain Norwich Gym during the late hours of an evening.

Michael Boon has actively worked in the financial services industry since 1965. You will struggle to find an adviser with a greater wealth of experience in this field than Michael. In his past life, Michael was managing partner of an independent financial brokerage group in Hampshire, boasting over 8000 clients with over 40 employees.

Michael’s reputation for consistently delivering high quality advice has generated a loyal client base. Such a reputation has also resulted in his membership for the Equity Release Council.

Michael offers advice and arrangement for the following services:

• Equity release (lifetime mortgages and home reversion)
• Life insurance
• Income insurance

In his spare time, Michael enjoys a simple and relaxed lifestyle. He is constantly tending to his ever-growing garden. However, Michael’s blood pressure is partial to rise on a Saturday afternoon when Norwich City F.C. are close to kick off.

Mandy Holmes has joined Boon Brokers in an administrative role. She spent many years working for Jewson Timber Merchants in their Marketing Department. The skills learnt during those years have made Mandy a valuable addition to the team. A core goal of Boon Brokers, at the heart of our long-term business strategy, is to adapt to the changing technological environment in the financial service industry. A key driver of such change is the emergence of new marketing platforms and systems. Mandy’s insights into such changes, due to her widespread marketing background, are invaluable.

Mandy’s day-to-day role focuses on assisting Dee Beckett with the progression of mortgage and insurance applications. This role entails: providing updates to clients on submitted cases, discussing information/documentation requirements, arranging consultations for our advisers and managing our internal database. Compliance reporting is another important facet of Mandy’s job role.

Outside of the workplace, Mandy has many hobbies. Most notably, she is an avid Formula 1 fan and keen supporter of Lewis Hamilton.

Joshua is a driven and ambitious adviser who has worked in a variety of financial service sectors and lived in multiple countries.

He aims to deliver an optimal service to clients by offering a friendly, professional and bespoke touch to each case. His constant endeavour to find the best solution to clients, regardless of how challenging a case may be, is much admired by his peers.

Joshua is a qualified mortgage and insurance adviser. Although he is able to help any client, he is particularly proficient at assisting first time buyers, as well as buyers with adverse credit. Financial advice and arrangement is offered in the following areas:

• Residential
• Commercial
• Buy to let
• Income protection
• Life insurance

During his free time, Joshua enjoys flying planes as well as reading and swimming. One of his biggest passions is music. You will often catch Joshua muttering the lyrics of an obscure track to himself, which is most amusing to the other office staff.

After experimenting with various job roles in different sectors, Dominic has now found his career passion in the financial service industry. 

Dominic is highly academic. He has achieved an overall Distinction in his CeMAP qualification, a 2:1 classification from the University of Exeter in his business degree and straight A grades at A-Level. 

Dominic is a qualified mortgage and insurance adviser. He particularly enjoys corresponding with new clients in an initial consultation call to understand their requirements to then advise accordingly. Dominic can offer financial advice and arrangement in the following areas:

• Residential
• Buy to let
• Income Protection
• Life insurance

Outside of work, Dominic enjoys visiting his local pub with friends, watching comedians on stage and spending quality time with his close siblings, nieces and nephews.

Dominic’s favourite comedian is Doug Stanhope. Dominic frequently tries to emulate his work in the office.

Lucinda has actively worked in the mortgage broking industry for many years. Her previous role focused on processing buy-to-let mortgages. Lucinda is now proficient in offering mortgage advice for all residential and buy-to-let cases. She is CeMAP qualified and achieved numerous Distinction and Merit grades in her modules. 

Lucinda specialises in advising and arranging re-mortgage cases for Boon Brokers. Even though re-mortgages is now her focus, Lucinda can offer financial advice and arrangement in the following areas:

• Residential
• Buy to let
• Income Protection
• Life insurance

Away from the office, Lucinda enjoys going for long walks, exercising at her local gym and seeing her friends/family. An interesting fact about Lucinda is that she is a co-founder of a Norfolk Rum business. As a result, she spends plenty of her spare time selling rum at Norfolk & Suffolk-based farmers’ markets. 

Jay has worked in the financial service industry as an active mortgage and insurance broker since 2017.  As a result of his experience, his skillset as an adviser is multi-faceted. Jay will happily identify the most suitable lender for prospective borrowers that are hoping to purchase or re-mortgage residential or buy-to-let properties. After the mortgage has been arranged, Jay will also discuss with borrowers which type of insurance cover is likely to be most suitable for their circumstances – including life, income and critical illness cover. 

As a CeMAP qualified adviser, Jay can offer financial advice and arrangement in the following areas:

1. Residential
2. Buy to Let
3. Income Protection
4. Life Insurance 

Away from the workplace, Jay enjoys walking his frantic cocker spaniel, fishing in Norfolk, supporting Manchester United F.C. and spending quality time with his wife.