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Birthday bonanza
Vic Jannels, the original face of AToM, has been piloting the firm and guiding son and co-pilot Dale for just shy of a decade. But as AToM reaches its twentieth year, Vic tells Sarah Davidson why he’s handing over the controls
Vic Jannels was once a world champion ten pin bowler, a footballer and a middle distance runner in the Royal Air Force. It was like being paid to play sport five days a week, around the world, for five years.
He also did some complex tinkering with aeroplanes, which was what he was actually being paid for. The RAF took advantage of those talents and as well as his skill with a bowling ball, Vic was versed in the complex electronic make-up of blind-flying panel indicators - the altimeters, the artificial horizon and other instruments that meant pilots didn’t crash planes in the dark. Having trained in electrical engineering, he had learned a thing or two about machines and their inner workings in the late ‘60s. Fast forward to today and Vic Jannels is one of the mortgage industry’s best
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known characters after launching All Types of Mortgages 20 years ago with his wife Sheila from their children’s playroom.
For Jannels, as for so many, it was a move that happened by accident after applying for “any job that wasn’t selling under floor heating” which he’d gone into having left the RAF in 1972. After asking his recruiter (slightly tongue in cheek ) “What’s a building society?” he was interviewed, got the job and worked his way up through the Provincial from a glorified tea boy to regional director running the society’s City and West End branches in London. In the ‘80’s he went to work with industry stalwart Stephen Knight at Citibank, which he ranks among the highlights of his career.
Then, after seeing a mortgage broker
arrive at a seminar in a helicopter he quit the lending game and started a brokerage called Mortgage Solutions. AToM soon followed and over the years it grew too big for the playroom to over 80 people at its peak. Yet despite its meteoric rise it was not immune to the credit crisis of 2007 and had to scale back dramatically. But unlike vast numbers of mortgage packagers it has survived with 18 staff across the country today.
In tandem with AToM, Jannels also sat on the board of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries for seven years until he stepped down in 2009. He also set up the Professional Mortgage Packagers Alliance in 2000, where he eventually became chairman. He’s had quite a career. But, he says, he recognises it’s time to take more of
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