Meet the Team
meet the experts behind your funding solutions
At Compare Your Funding, our highly skilled team is dedicated to helping businesses navigate the complex world of commercial finance. With vast expertise across business loans, invoice finance, asset finance, property finance, and trade finance, we take the time to understand your unique needs and goals.
Every member of our team is committed to providing transparent, tailored guidance, ensuring that the funding solutions we recommend support both immediate objectives and long-term growth. Here, you’ll meet the people who turn insight into action for businesses like yours.
Mark Hagan
Managing Director
Mark is the co-founder of Compare Your Funding, founded in 2013 after seeing a real gap in the market for a genuine and honest approach to business funding, particularly invoice finance. Having experienced first-hand how often businesses are guided towards products that aren’t necessarily the right fit, the aim has always been to build something different: a service focused on finding the best solution for each business, based on their needs.
Mark’s approach is straight-talking, transparent and client-first. With over a decade in the industry, Mark has helped businesses navigate funding decisions with clarity and confidence. I’m driven by finding the right product or service for each client, rather than simply going with the easiest option.
Compare Your Funding started by specialising in invoice finance, and over time has grown and evolved in line with clients’ requirements. Today, we support businesses with a wide range of funding options including bridging loans, commercial mortgages, asset finance, and other tailored solutions as needs change. For me, it’s about long-term relationships, not quick fixes.
A strong team culture sits at the heart of what we do, built around trust, consistency and supporting one another to deliver the best outcomes for our clients.
Away from work, Mark is married with three teenage boys and enjoys watching his sons grow and carve out their own individual paths. Mark is also a keen follower of football and rugby union.
Jamie Grimshaw
Commercial Finance Director
Jamie Grimshaw is the Commercial Director at Compare Your Funding, where he leads the development of funder relationships, oversees the continual improvement of systems and processes, and drives the company’s national client growth strategy. He plays a central role in ensuring businesses across the UK can access clear, well-structured, and commercially appropriate funding solutions.
Jamie brings over 23 years of banking experience with RBS and NatWest, where he specialised in the relationship management of SMEs across a wide range of sectors. During this time, he built a strong reputation for supporting business owners through growth, change, and challenge, delivering tailored financial solutions aligned to both commercial goals and long-term sustainability.
In addition to his banking career, Jamie has worked within a fund management business, helping regional companies secure funding to support expansion and investment, and for a specialist property funder, further strengthening his understanding of complex funding structures and lender requirements. This breadth of experience enables him to bridge the gap between businesses and funders, ensuring the right products and structures are put in place to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Jamie is a qualified Chartered Banker, a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute, and CeMAP-qualified, reflecting his commitment to professional standards and continuous development. He prides himself on genuinely helping businesses and their owners find the right products and services to meet their needs, always focusing on delivering long-term value rather than short-term solutions.
Outside of work, Jamie enjoys spending time with his family and three children, coaching grassroots football, and making the most of family holidays.
Karl hutchinson
Director
Karl started his career in operational roles, where he gained a solid understanding of how businesses really work day to day. Alongside this, he naturally became involved in sales, which helped to develop a strong appreciation for building relationships and finding the right solutions for customers.
As his experience grew, Karl decided to take his career in a new direction and move into a dedicated business role. What quickly became clear was that he found the greatest satisfaction in helping businesses find funding that genuinely suited their needs, rather than forcing them into a single option.
Karl has played rugby since the age of 12, and it has shaped a lot of how Karl approaches both life and business. The discipline, teamwork, and camaraderie the game teaches are values which are carried into his work every day. Just like on the field, every business is different, and success comes from understanding strengths, working together, and having a clear game plan.
Family is incredibly important and Karl is a proud husband to his wonderful wife and a devoted dad to his 11-year-old daughter. Spending time with them and the wider wider family keeps him grounded. Outside of work, Karl enjoys socialising with friends, old and new, and building meaningful connections.
TGL Solutions was setup in 2013 with a simple but powerful aim: to give businesses access to honest advice, real transparency, and funding solutions that truly fit. Over the past decade, we’ve grown our offering to support business owners with a full suite of products, always with their goals and long-term success at the heart of everything we do.
George hagan
SALES SUPPORT
As the youngest member of the Compare Your Funding team, George is developing his skills and experience while continuing with his agriculture studies. He plays a supportive role across the business, assisting team members and helping things run smoothly behind the scenes.
Outside of work, George enjoys Olympic lifting, playing rugby, and socialising with friends.