CLSQ has announced that Spencer Wyer has joined the group as strategic development director.
Wyer (pictured) joins CLSQ to accelerate the development of new property data and data-led insurance products and services for the CLSQ group.
He previously worked at Hometrack, part of Zoopla, where he was vice president of product & technology. He joined Hometrack in December 2020 through the acquisition of the Mortgage Lending Solutions business unit of the EDM Group. Following the acquisition he integrated the businesses and teams, and defined the property risk and valuation product strategy at Hometrack and forged the relationship between CLSQ and Hometrack.
Prior to this, Wyer was chief technology officer at EDM Group, where he led its entry into the digital mortgage sector, working closely with major lenders to design and build a new property risk automation platform.
Tom Plews, one of the founders of CLSQ, said: “We’re delighted that Spencer is joining the CLSQ community. He has a wealth of experience, including working with CLSQ, and will play an important role in helping us to prioritise and build on our current success. The addition of his strategic prowess will help to accelerate the adoption of our extensive, cutting-edge property data, and data-led insurance products and services.
“Our primary aim remains to empower our partners and customers and bring efficiency and certainty to the financial services, insurance and future sectors.”
Wyer added: “I’m really excited to be joining CLSQ to continue the digitisation of the mortgage technology journey that I’ve been working on since 2015. The incredible power of CLSQ’s data, products and services, the agility to bring new and innovative products to market with the unique breadth and experience within the group will enable CLSQ to play a pivotal role in the next level of automation of mortgage processing and buying/selling property.
“What’s also great, is that I already know the CLSQ team well, having worked with them as a partner of Zoopla and Hometrack. It’s not often you get to make a brilliant move in the same industry already knowing the people you are going to work with and still having contact with my ex-colleagues at Hometrack and Zoopla via the partnership.”