Our Board members are:
Peter is an experienced non-executive Director and is currently Chair of Flint Housing Ltd. He has also held various Board level roles including:
- Former Chair of Housing Corporation
- Former Vice Chair of the Broads Authority
- Former Chair of UCL NHS Foundation Trust.
Paul is Chief Executive of Southern Housing and a member of the Southern Housing Board.
Prior to the launch of Southern Housing, Paul held the same positions at Optivo from 2017 and led AmicusHorizon as CEO from 2012.
Before becoming CEO of AmicusHorizon, he spent four years as Chief Operating Officer and oversaw the transformation of service delivery.
Paul has worked in the housing association sector since 1989. Before joining AmicusHorizon, Paul was Executive Director, Development and New Business with Moat. He led Moat's new build and sales programmes and led the merger with Bourne Housing Society. He also oversaw a number of major regeneration projects, including Moat’s first PFI.
Prior to that, Paul spent eight and a half years at L&Q, where he led a number of large and complex regeneration projects and stock transfers. His last role at L&Q was to establish a key worker housing business.
Paul is an Honorary Professor at the UCL Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction and a member of the Bartlett's Independent Advisory Board. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Chartered Institute of Building, the Chartered Institute of Housing, and is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism.
Between 2017-19 Paul was Chair of G15 and a member of the Homes for Londoners Board. During his two-year term, Paul focused on building stronger relationships with the public sector and making the economic case for higher grant rates and longer-term funding. He was also a high-profile advocate of rebalancing the landlord tenant relationship.
Paul was awarded a CBE for services to social housing.
Damien is a financial analyst by background with significant expertise in credit markets and financial institutions. He is an experienced non-executive Director and holds board level roles across different sectors including:
- Chair of the Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee on the board of Crisis (homelessness)
- Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee at Longhurst/ Grand Union Housing (housing association)
- Chair of the Audit Committee at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Trustee-treasurer at Pro Bono Economics.
His previous roles were as Non-Executive Director on the board of two software businesses: Trustee at Médecins Sans Frontières UK (Doctors Without Borders UK) and at Reprieve, the human rights charity.
Eugenie is a former senior civil servant whose last government role was Director General for Housing, Planning and Regeneration. She is an experienced non-executive Director and has held various non executive Board roles including:
- NED,Woolwich Building Society
- NED, Wates Group
- NED, Genesis then Notting Hill Genesis Housing Group (Chair of People Committee and Customer Services Committee)
- Chair, Wessex Archaeology
- Lay member, Salisbury Cathedral Chapter
- Trustee and Deputy Chair, Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Adviser on public service improvement, Government of Trinidad.
She currently advises Nuclear Waste Management Services on community engagement, is Chair of Dulwich Arts Society and volunteers as a local Infants school reader.
Robert has been a qualified member of Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) since 1974 and retired as CEO of Durkan Ltd in 2016.
As Managing Director and CEO, he was responsible for the management of all construction projects, business planning and HR management.
His board and committee experience has included joint venture companies, housing associations, construction skills training, The Housing Forum and The Hertfordshire Housing Conference.
Phil has been the administrator and fundraiser for a charity that operates in the cultural heritage sector for many years.
He works with volunteers to develop a historic building as a heritage centre and museum and organises projects to conserve collections, gather and disseminate historical records and present events and exhibitions.
He also collaborates with university researchers to explore ways of telling stories using immersive technologies.
Howard is an experienced non-executive Director and has held various Board level roles including:
- Chair of Havebury Housing Partnership
- Former Board Member at Ascham Homes
- Former Deputy Chief Executive of Circle Anglia and Interim Chief Executive of Hornsey Housing Trust.
Janet is a CIPFA accountant with over 30 years’ public sector experience.
She has worked at a number of local authorities in both housing and corporate finance and was previously Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance at City West Homes.
She has also worked as a consultant providing financial consultancy and training for public sector organisations, especially on social housing finance and value for money.
She is an experienced non-executive having been a board member and Chair of Audit Committee within the housing sector.
Janet is currently also a board member and Chair of Audit and Risk at Advance Housing and Support.
Geanna has over 20 years’ experience working in the social housing sector in executive and senior management roles.
Ian is currently Head of Residential Fund Management at Knight Frank Investment Management and has worked in the real estate industry for over 25 years.
He has been a Member of Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) since 2000. Previously he worked at CBRE Investment Management where he launched the CBRE UK Affordable Housing Fund in 2018.
He has worked in real estate fund management since 2006 undertaking a variety of asset management, fund management and development roles. Prior to this Ian worked as both a residential and commercial property valuer.
Michelle is an experienced financial risk management executive and Director of MJD Treasury Solutions Ltd.
She is former Chair of Board at Kairos Women Working Together.
Daisy has lifelong experience of living in social housing and knows the benefits it can bring from her great-grandfathers housed in ‘Homes for Heroes’ in West London.
She is a qualified teacher, specialising in IT and design and technology, with 17 years experience of school governance; eight years as Chair of Governors.
Daisy is involved in raising the resident and disabled person’s voice as resident board member with Southern Housing, and additional roles as EDI lead, Residents Services Committee member and link board member on a regional resident’s panel.
As Chair of the G15 Residents’ Group, Daisy leads the forum in informing, influencing, and celebrating the socially housed residents voice at leadership policy level.