Graeme Winser

e4 Strategic appoints Graeme Winser as non-executive director ahead of UK expansion

Digital solutions provider e4 Strategic has appointed Graeme Winser as non-executive director as the company expands into the UK market with its new digital workflow platform, VERSA.

The appointment brings significant industry expertise to the business at the start of its UK journey.

Winser is well known across the mortgage and property sectors, having previously served as managing director of Ekins Surveyors, UK Valuation and Hometrack, and most recently as head of valuations, property risk and underwriting at Nationwide Building Society.

Since leaving Nationwide in 2020, he has provided consultancy to a range of organisations, including UK Property Risk (UKPR), where he is a director and partner working to advance data-driven and transparent improvements to valuation, environmental and conveyancing solutions.

VERSA has been developed in collaboration with leading UK mortgage lenders and conveyancing experts over the past four years, supported by more than two decades of experience delivering similar solutions for South Africa’s largest lenders and conveyancers.

The platform aims to streamline the mortgage and conveyancing process through integrated digital workflows.

Simon Slater, chief executive of e4 Strategic, said: “Having someone with Graeme’s industry experience, who is highly respected and has a huge breadth of knowledge has been a significant coup for our business and his insights will continue to be invaluable as we build and integrate our solution into the major lenders and provide it to conveyancers.

“We are building VERSA to integrate with the wider digital property landscape and so having an expert such as Graeme to help us navigate a path to make this happen is invaluable.

“His value to our board and to our overall journey has already been immense. We have been very lucky to have him on the board.

“To top it off, he is always fun to work with, often offering wise advice at critical junctures in the journey to build and implement VERSA.”

Graeme Winser, non-executive director at e4 Strategic, said: “We rarely get truly ‘new brooms’ into this market very often and although incumbents add, subtract and evolve, it doesn’t really change anything nor ‘move the dial’ on capability, service etc.

“e4 Strategic have no axes to grind, no legacy to pander to and no conflicts of interests and they are delivering the best the market can have right now which includes flexible, joined up tech that can lead, and keep up with, change into the future.

“And this isn’t really a start-up; this is re-designing their own market-leading tech and expertise for the UK market.”

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