Sandra Frith (pictured), assistant vice president and mortgage loan officer at Huntington National Bank, has always had a passion for numbers – something which inevitably led to her pursuing an accounting degree. However it was a chance job at a car dealership that inadvertently led to a finance-driven career. “I took a job at a dealership in their finance department,” she said. “I moved up the ranks becoming a finance manager. – and I got all the way up to a general manager where I actually ran the dealership.” However, times were different back then – and in the late 80s car dealerships were something of a man’s world.

“It was very difficult, especially for being a very young female in a management position – it was a lot of stress,” she said. “As such, I ended up looking at home financing – and this was just when mortgages were starting to get a little bit of gain. I think that more people were starting to purchase homes rather than rent, so I was able to start out at a very small mortgage broker and learn the ropes.” And Frith has never really looked back.