Hometrack announces significant appointments of Piero Bassu and Andrew Vaughan to its senior team
Hometrack, the residential property market analyst, has today announced two senior appointments to Hometrack’s financial services team. Piero Bassu has joined the business as Director of Financial Services and Capital Markets while Andrew Vaughan has been appointed as Head of Mortgage Origination Solutions. Both bring a wealth of experience in the financial services, banking and mortgage market.
Piero has spent more than 16 years in the global banking sector, focusing on valuation and mortgage risk, most recently as Head of IFRS9 Delivery for Macquarie Bank and Head of Risk, Control and Regulatory Management for Barclays Investment Banking Division in Asia Pacific. Prior to that, Piero was Head of Mortgage Credit Risk for Platform Home Loans, the intermediary mortgage lender of Britannia Building Society.
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience within financial services and has held senior roles at Legal & General Surveying Services, Lloyds, TSB, Bradford & Bingley and UK Asset Resolution. Andrew possesses deep domain expertise in mortgage origination and property valuation. He will be responsible for business development of Hometrack’s core products for the mortgage origination marketplace.
Charlie Bryant, Chief Executive Officer of Hometrack says:
“The appointment of Piero and Andrew is significant for Hometrack. Following our recent acquisition by ZPG earlier this year, we are now in an even stronger position to expand and enhance our solutions to deliver greater value for our lender partners. Hometrack remains committed to further innovation in collateral valuation and mortgage analytics to help lenders enhance the customer experience while managing risk and seeking out new opportunities. Piero and Andrew bring a wealth of real world expertise from the banking and retail lending sectors and are strong additions to the current Hometrack team.
Piero Bassu Director of Financial Services and Capital Markets at Hometrack says: “This is an exciting time to be joining Hometrack. The company has ambitious growth plans and strong momentum. I look forward to leveraging my own experience of the mortgage market and the implications of collateral valuation on business processes, capital and provisioning management to support our clients in my new role.”
Andrew Vaughan, Head of Mortgage Origination Solutions at Hometrack says:
“For many years Hometrack has been a key player in the residential property market. Its insight and understanding of residential property trends and data has been unrivalled. I’m hugely excited to be joining the team and look forward to playing my own part in building on that impressive reputation.”