Award-winning property data and estate agent prospecting platform, Homesearch, has appointed a new chief technology officer (CTO) to help accelerate its business growth and expand its data and technical capabilities.
Michael Gray joins the London-based firm to drive its product development forward so that the platform continues to innovate and enhance the volume and quality of instructions delivered to its estate agent subscribers.
Homesearch, which enables over a thousand UK estate agents to generate and nurture more leads, was voted ‘Best Instruction Generation Tool’ at the recent industry ESTAS awards.
With an extensive background in IT and managing big data across public and private sectors, Michael will be tasked with acting on feedback from Homesearch’s estate agent base, as well as implementing a range of technical strategies and solutions, ranging from cloud governance to further developing big data capabilities through additional machine learning.
He joins having previously held numerous consulting and executive roles, such as at Contino (now Cognizant) where he lead the development of the first machine learning and AI quote-to-buy platform for Direct Line Group. He also led major transformation projects within the financial services sector, working with clients such as BNP Paribas.
Giles Ellwood, Homesearch CEO, said “Maximising big data is key to the Homesearch proposition and we see Michael’s appointment as integral to our future business growth plans. He has the breadth of skills and experience to continually challenge what the platform is able to deliver for estate agents, whilst having the strategic vision to push its data and insight capabilities well beyond what we can imagine. It’s an exciting and ambitious journey to be part of and made even more achievable by bringing in someone with Michael’s expertise.”
Michael Gray, new CTO at Homesearch added: “Developing a unique platform, pushing boundaries and continually exploring how we can transform the way estate agents do business, generate instructions and increase profit is an exciting challenge I simply had to be part of. I’m really pleased to be on board and honoured to be working with some of the brightest and most forward-thinking minds in the proptech space.”
About Homesearch
Homesearch is the next-generation property data and prospecting system, where property professionals can find, target, and win new instructions or simply research the housing market using comprehensive property data.
Holding 24 billion pieces of data on the entire property stock of England and Wales, Homesearch is a powerful platform that enables users to find comprehensive, accurate and impartial information on any residential property, whether it’s on or off the market and use that information to eliminate waste and intelligently target homes for new instructions.
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