Harry Hill, former Chairman and CEO of Countrywide and co-founder of Rightmove, shares his journey in real estate with Guy Westlake.
Harry is one of the legends of UK estate agency, considered by many to be the original proptech pioneer. Over his 20 year tenure as CEO of Countrywide, Harry built the company into the world’s largest group of estate agents offering integrated property services, eventually selling the business to US private equity firm Apollo Global Management for £1bn in 2007. In 2000, whilst at the helm of Countrywide, he led the formation of Rightmove and served as the company’s Chairman until 2008. Today Rightmove is the UK’s leading property listings portal with a market capitalization of £5.3bn.
Harry has held numerous non-executive roles at both public and private companies, including Hunters, Learning Technologies Group and Lavanda.
In this episode Harry shares:
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