Gocompare Com : welcomes Zoe Harris as Group chief marketing officer

06 June 2018

GoCompare.com Group plc welcomes Zoe Harris as chief marketing officer

Zoe Harris has been appointed as chief marketing officer of GoCompare.com Group plc ('the Group' or 'GoCompare'), and will be responsible for the development and delivery of overall marketing strategy for the

Group's brands includingGoCompare,a leading UK financial services, utilities and home services comparison website; andMyVoucherCodes,the discount and voucher codes website that connects consumers with money saving offers from the world's leading brands.

Zoe will join the company later this year and will be a member of the executive leadership team, reporting into

Matthew Crummack, CEO of the Group. Zoe brings with her a wealth of experience, having previously headed up various marketing functions for brands such as Channel 5, MTV and top-five advertising agency, WCRS. She will join GoCompare from Reach plc, where she is Group marketing director, responsible for building a portfolio of national newspapers, 130 regional newspapers, and over 100 digital products.

Commenting on her appointment, Zoe Harris said: "GoCompare is a company with a clear purpose, a driven team and exciting plans for the future, so suffice it to say I'm really looking forward to playing my part in helping the Group realise its ambitions.

"The Group's single-minded focus on helping people everywhere save time and money - be that on things they need or things they want - resonates with my experience of understanding what makes mainstream Britain tick, and finding new ways to make the everyday lives of people that little bit easier."

Matthew Crummack, CEO, added: "It's my pleasure to welcome Zoe to GoCompare, and I know that the rest of the senior leadership team are eagerly anticipating her arrival. Zoe's background in media, with an enviable track record of helping develop some remarkable and impactful brands, makes her an ideal fit for the Group.

"Our brands are used by millions of people, helping to simplify choices and save them billions of pounds a year on everything from insurance to fashion, and we operate in competitive markets full of challenges and opportunities. I believe that Zoe's wealth of experience and ideas will help the Group to save even more people time and money."

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For further information please contact:

Anders Nilsson, head of external communications, on: 01633 654 054 / 07841 698 642 /anders@gocompare.com

Notes to editors:

About GoCompare.com Group plc

GoCompare.com Group plc (GOCO) operatesGoCompare,a leading UK financial services, utilities and home services comparison website; andMyVoucherCodes,which is a digital media and affiliate marketing specialist that connects consumers with money saving offers from the world's leading brands.

GoCompare attracts approximately five million visits every month and is designed to help people save time and money. When GoCompare launched in 2006 it disrupted the insurance market as the first comparison website to display policy details rather than just listing prices. GoCompare's goal was then, and still is now, to help people make better -informed buying decisions that save them time and money.

MyVoucherCodes.co.uk is one of the UK's biggest discount voucher websites. It launched in November 2006 and provides sales, discount and voucher code information to millions of consumers across the UK every month.

Each week, MyVoucherCodes send a variety of emails with the best selection of deals, vouchers and offers across fashion, restaurants, electronics, travel, beauty and more to its eight million email subscribers.

GoCompare.com Group plc uses data gathered from more than 20 million customers over the last 11 years to underpin its drive to continually improve its proposition and leverage its strong position.

The Group is also an investor inSouqalmal.com,the leading comparison business in the Middle East; and in promising fintech start upMortgageGym,the mortgage robo-adviser.

About Zoe Harris

Zoe is a marketer who gets a real buzz from understanding what makes mainstream Britain tick, editorialising brands to make them part of popular culture - talked about on social media and in the face to face conversations that take place at the kitchen tables, school gates and pubs of Britain.

Throughout her career, Zoe has led teams to build well-known brands such as The Mirror, Sky, Channel 5 and MTV through a creative and disruptive approach to multi-channel marketing.

Currently Group Marketing Director at Reach plc, one of the largest multimedia publishers in the UK, Zoe is responsible for building its portfolio of national newspapers, 130 regional newspapers and over 100 digital products.

Zoe's specialities include: repositioning, proposition development, brand launch, digital, NPD, content strategy, audience insight, social media, advertising, PR, Events, partnerships, insight, conviction brands, heritage brands, digital brands.

In her spare time, Zoe runs Stockwell Girl Guide Unit and can tie a mean reef knot. She is also proud to be a trustee of Barnardos.