Abbey for Intermediaries key accounts director Adrian Whittaker has been made redundant from the lender following a shake up of the structure of its sales team, Money Marketing's sister title Mortgage Strategy can reveal. Under the new structure, which will come into place this month, the responsibility for all aspects of the intermediary sales force will be handed to one person, head of sales Brad Fordham. Fordham joined Abbey from NatWest as a branch manager in 1995.

Currently, the head of sales role is shared with Brad Fordham head of telephony and service and Jeremy Duncombe responsible for field sales. Whittaker (pictured) is responsible for managing the lender's relationships with its key accounts.