Digital property solutions firm e4 Strategic has appointed Graeme Winser as a non-executive director.

The appointment follows the launch of VERSA, e4 Strategic’s new digital workflow platform, which has been developed in collaboration with leading mortgage lenders and conveyancers over the past four years. The system builds on more than two decades of experience delivering similar digital infrastructure to South Africa’s largest mortgage and conveyancing firms.

Winser (pictured) is well known across the property and mortgage market. His most recent corporate position was with Nationwide Building Society, where he was responsible for valuations, property risk and underwriting. He has also held managing director roles at Ekins Surveyors, UK Valuation and Hometrack.

Since leaving Nationwide in 2020, Winser has provided consultancy services to a range of property and lending businesses, including UK Property Risk, where he is a director and partner.

His current work focuses on promoting safe, transparent and data-driven improvements to valuation, environmental and conveyancing processes in the mortgage journey.

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. 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.”

Winser 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 or service.

“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.”