Pexa UK has appointed Matthew Joy to be the chief growth officer at Smoove. 

Joy has 35 years’ industry experience, having worked most recently as sales and marketing director at the TM Group, the property data and technology business. He was also one of the three founding directors of Conveyancing Data Services. 

In his new role Joy will take responsibility improving the conveyancing experience for customers and developing and growing the Smoove business, following the departure of the outgoing CEO. He will report into the UK CEO, Joe Pepper.

UK CEO Joe Pepper says this appointment would help grow the Smoove business. He adds that the firms was looking to develop a combined Pexa and Smoove proposition to help speed up the home-buying process.  

Pexa continues to scale its proposition in the UK as it seeks to streamline the property transaction process. 

Having launched a payment system in September 2022, resulting in the UK’s first ever digitally enabled remortgage transaction, it has since established its UK headquarters in Leeds, following its acquisition of conveyancing firm Optima Legal in December 2022. It completed the acquisition of Smoove, providing access to more than 75 conveyancer firms through Smoove’s platform, in addition to another 2,100 firms through Smoove’s role arranging panels for lenders across the UK market.

Joy says he was looking forward to the opportunity to work on innovative projects that will help change the house buying process.