Zoopla announces four senior hires

Zoopla has welcomed four new senior hires to its product team, signalling further long-term investment in product innovation and delivering market leading tools and software.

Holly Westall (right),Head of Product – Property Marketing, arrives from Scout24, a German online listings company. She brings global expertise to Zoopla, having worked at property portals across Europe and to Australia. Her focus will be on ensuring value to partners, particularly with listing marketing, property valuations and inventory acquisition tools and services.

Paul Hammond (left) is Head of Engineering. Paul previously held software leadership roles at eBay and Microsoft – his focus will be on the consumer, developing Zoopla’s web and mobile user experiences.

Carl Olivier (right), formerly at Skype and at Twilio joins as Head of Product for Software and Productivity. Carl looked after core Skype calling services, he will now oversee the tools Zoopla creates for agents.

Peter Sellw

Peter Sellwood (left) is the Head of Engineering for Zoopla’s software division, he joins from American Express where he was Engineering Director. Peter’s brief is to develop Zoopla’s Estate Agent customer management products.

Managing Director, Charlie Bryant, says, “This investment in talent feeds into our long-term strategy to deliver a better quality experience for users on our portal which will drive better quality leads to agents.”