Zoopla welcomes Jon Notley as Commercial Director
24th August 2011
Leading property search and information website, Zoopla.co.uk is pleased to announce the appointment of Jon Notley to the new role of Commercial Director.
Joining Zoopla with over fifteen years of experience in key sales roles, Jon was most recently Group Sales Director at The Digital Property Group. Prior to that he was Sales Director at Findaproperty.com and in his earlier career, Jon was responsible for managing classified ad sales teams at Express Newspapers.
Jon’s responsibilities will include overseeing all revenue streams and the overall sales function at Zoopla, tasked with identifying new opportunities and managing performance and growth. Jon will report directly to Founder and CEO, Alex Chesterman.
This is the second senior appointment announced by Zoopla in recent weeks as the business continues to grow and follows the hiring of Lydia Goldberg to the role of Product Director to oversee all trade and consumer product-related activities at Zoopla.
Commenting on his new role, Jon Notley said: “This is clearly a sector I know very well and Zoopla’s growth, innovation and overall strategy creates a very exciting opportunity. I am looking forward to working with the existing world-class team at Zoopla to deliver even further growth and opportunities for the business and benefits for our members.”
Alex Chesterman, Founder & CEO of Zoopla added:: "We are delighted to welcome Jon to the senior management team at Zoopla. His experience, background and knowledge of the industry and players will ensure that we continue to grow and serve our members well as we continue to build Zoopla into a household brand.”
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For further information please contact Lawrence Hall on 020 7620 4618 / 07890 078 945 lawrence.hall@zoopla.co.uk.
Notes to editors
Zoopla.co.uk is the UK's most comprehensive property website, focused on empowering users with the resources they need to make better-informed property decisions. We help consumers both find their next home and research the market by combining hundreds of thousands of property listings with market data, local information and community tools.
At Zoopla we are fans of transparency and everything we do is aimed at making the market more efficient for both property consumers and advertisers alike. Zoopla.co.uk has rapidly become the UK's leading online destination for property consumers to search for homes and do their market research and the favoured online marketing partner for UK estate agents, letting agents and property developers.
Launched in 2008, Zoopla.co.uk has since been one of the fastest growing websites in the UK, now attracting over 20 million visits per month and we are proud to have collected numerous awards and accolades along the way, including being named one of the Top 10 UK Tech Companies (Guardian) and one of the Top 10 Most Innovative UK Companies (Smarta).
Zoopla.co.uk is part of Zoopla Property Group Limited, a privately held company whose shareholders include dmg media (a division of DMGT), leading venture capital firms Atlas Venture and Octopus Ventures and a handful of well-respected angel investors. The company has a highly-experienced management team, led by Founder & CEO, Alex Chesterman.
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