Lauren De Witt
About Lauren
Lauren’s spent more than 20 years helping businesses make big change feel a little less complicated. She’s worked across 12 countries and a mix of industries — from financial services and mining to FMCG and telcos — helping teams work smarter and businesses run better.
Before joining Squirrel, Lauren spent 15 years in advisory working on large transformation projects with companies including Standard Bank, Barclays, Anglo Platinum and Foodstuffs.
At Squirrel, Lauren’s the one helping keep things running smoothly behind the scenes — connecting people, strategy and operations so the business keeps moving forward.
Outside of work, Lauren’s usually off chasing sunshine with her husband and two boys — whether that’s golfing, scuba diving, fly fishing, racing cars or riding motorbikes. She’s also a prolific baker, school basketball coach, fluent in English and Afrikaans, and currently learning Mandarin.
And according to her teenager, her role as Chief Operating Officer roughly translates to “the Nutcracker.”
Don’t just take our word for it
Doug
New Zealand
Adam in the Dunedin office was the pillar of strength we didn't know we needed through this whole process. Quick informative responses in easy to understand language. He listened to what we wanted to do, and worked with us explaining all the pros & cons to each option, and helped us narrow down to the best solution for us. Always polite and courteous, calm and reassuring throughout. When we next need lending or financial advise, Adam will be our go to guy!! :)
Cameron
New Zealand
My partner and I couldn't be more impressed with Oli's help setting up our mortgage. As first home buyers, the process was daunting at first, but Oli assisted with every step. We also really appreciated Squirrel's transparency with banks they worked with and how their commission process worked. We are very satisfied with the final result and have already recommended others to Oli for his services!
Kelly
New Zealand
Jess was amazing from start to finish, took the entire stress out of buying our first home. Her knowledge was incredible and we feel she always went the extra mile for us
Mark
New Zealand
Matt was extremely professional, efficient and most of patient. Great follow up, simple explanations for any queries we had (and we had a few) and anything that required follow up with the bank was swiftly actioned. Really did make the process easy and a great outcome overall.