Vancouver-based Quest Capital Corp. has appointed mortgage banker Kenneth Gordon as chief operating officer. Gordon has more than 30 years of Canadian and international mortgage lending experience, including five years as vice president of MCAP (Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec), where he was responsible for all interim and construction mortgage lending; and eight years as vice president of mortgage investments and then president of Aylmer & Sherbrooke Investments Inc., which is the fully owned mortgage corporation of the McGill University Pension Fund.

Gordon has served on the executive committee of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and has a mortgage broker’s license both in Quebec and British Columbia. He has also served as a director for the Quebec chapter of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and as vice chairman of the Saskatchewan section of the Trust Companies Association of Canada.

He holds a CRE designation from the Counsellors of Real Estate, a CRA designation from the Appraisal Institute of Canada and a FRICS designation from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

In his new position, Gordon will be responsible for managing the company’s real estate lending operations and the expansion of it’s mortgage lending activities.