REA Group has appointed Tomas Varsavsky to the role of Chief Engineer. Mr Varsavsky will report to the REA Group Chief Executive Officer, Tracey Fellows.
Varsavsky will be responsible for setting the strategic technology direction for the group and leads centralised teams around data, security, enterprise technology, infrastructure and architecture.
Mr Varsavsky has been with REA Group for seven years where he was most recently Chief Technology officer. In this role, he was responsible for setting the technological strategy for engineering teams across REA’s global operations. Before this, he was a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks where he worked with many organisations including Lonely Planet, NAB and IOOF.
“We’re excited about the deep technical expertise Tomas brings to the executive leadership team which will be important so we can continue our future success,” Tracey Fellows said.
Varsavsky commented: “I’m incredibly excited about the opportunity to lead our data and technology strategies as we continue to scale globally.
“Together with Tracey and the entire executive leadership team, I’m looking forward to evolving our engineering team and technology platform,” said Mr Varsavsky.
