Paul Bayly
Head of Governance and Compliance, National Housing Federation

Paul is the Governance and Compliance Manager for the Federation. He looks after the Federation’s internal risk and assurance processes and is responsible for advising members on governance matters. Paul also assists organisations looking to adopt the Federation’s Model Rules for Registered Societies.

Keith Bevan
Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, South Lakes Housing

Keith is Chair of South Lakes Housing’s Audit & Risk Committee. He has worked in the Life Insurance market for over 25 years focussing on risk management and consultancy work. He has worked in Europe with some of the largest international insurers as well as smaller-scale UK mutuals. Over the last 10 years, he has supported a number of senior leadership and Board teams in making financial, risk management and capital management transitions due to regulatory change. In 2017 he took up the position of Chief Risk Officer at Furness Building Society.

Janet Boston
Tenant Advisory Panel, Together With Tenants

Janet has been a tenant for nearly 11 years and came to social housing late in life, due to the sudden and catastrophic illness of her late husband, who needed 24-hour care when he eventually left hospital. Janet and her husband lost their home and she had to move whilst he was still seriously ill, and gave up her full time work to care for him.

Janet threw herself wholeheartedly into tenant involvement in order to keep her brain ticking over and to learn what it was all about. She has served on many tenant committees, including presently the scrutiny and independent complaints panel. She was also a board member for nine years.

Janet was a county councillor for four years, during which she served on the social services committee, and also the police authority and fire service authority. She is also a hospital volunteer.

Phil Brining
Operations Director, Data Protection People

Phil Brining is DPPs Operations Director responsible for the delivery of all the business’ services. Phil has a broad range of project, operations, and consulting experience over several industries and has practiced as a data protection and information governance specialist since 2006 engaged by several multi-national organisations as well as many small to medium sized businesses and charities. To compliment his experience Phil has an LL.M masters degree in information rights law and practice and is a QSA for the PCI DSS.

Prior to starting DPP Phil formed and ran Absolute Data, a niche salesforce development and data consulting business and in his career has worked at both Everton and Leeds United Football Clubs, in the hotel and catering industry, in publishing and education and in both food and furniture manufacturing.

Outside of data protection and information rights law Phil enjoys dinghy sailing, skiing, camping and spending time with his family.

Brigid Burbridge
Governance Director & Company Secretary, Trafford Housing Trust

Brigid is a Chartered Secretary with over 25 years’ experience working first in the private sector with large FTSE organisations before joining the housing sector advising on governance, compliance, regulation, risk management & business assurance.

At THT, Brigid is the executive lead for Governance & Business Assurance, People & Talent and Business Change, and brings her strong focus on transforming ‘good’ to ‘great’ in everything we do.

When not working, Brigid’s time is spent with her family, and she also enjoys the occasional bike ride.

Gemma Burton-Connolly
Company Secretary, Radian Homes

Gemma has worked in the housing sector for seven years. Gemma is Group Company Secretary for Radian and is a member of the Executive Board. Prior to this, Gemma worked in private practice as a Lawyer. She has broad experience of governance and regulatory requirements within private companies, registered charities, community benefit societies and public limited companies.

Gemma has a keen interest in raising the profile of governance and removing the perception of bureaucracy by working with individuals, teams and organisations to embed good governance practices. Gemma is a dual qualified lawyer in the UK and USA. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Westworks Procurement. Gemma is passionate about motivating and empowering her team to achieve their full potential and provides mentorship to aspiring young leaders too.

Tim Coolican
Partner, Anthony Collins

Tim joined Anthony Collins Solicitors in 2019 as a Partner leading the firm’s regulatory team. His work predominantly relates to advising and representing clients in the Health and Social Care and Social Housing sectors. With experience in a broad range of regulatory proceedings, he advises clients during regulatory and criminal investigations and proceedings, including health and safety prosecutions. Tim also has significant experience in representing clients during inquests and public inquiries, having acted in many high-profile and complex cases of significant public interest.

During the pandemic, he has been advising organisations providing essential services on how to balance the often competing safety risks associated with Covid-19. His clients appreciate his calm approach and ability to provide expert support at a time of crisis

Mark Davie
Director Fixed Income & Head of Social Housing, M&G Investments

Mark joined M&G in September 2010, as Head of Social Housing in Fixed Income. His primary focus is to originate new debt investment into UK housing associations for the various institutional pension, annuity and life funds we manage.

Prior to joining M&G, Mark was Head of Social Housing at Dexia, where he was responsible for a loan portfolio of £4.5bn across 140 housing association clients. Mark has also worked for Barclays Bank where he was responsible for relationships with large corporates and Bank of Ireland where he developed and led the Social Infrastructure Team. Mark has also served as a non-executive director on a housing association board.

Yvonne Davies
Managing Director, Scrutiny and Empowerment Partners

Yvonne Davies is the HDN Associate and the facilitator of the HDN national programmes on:

• Achieving Board Diversity

• Board Excellence Programme

Yvonne delivers equality health checks, Diversity Needs Assessment Accreditation for HDN.

Yvonne is a Board Member both at Cobalt Housing, and Steve Biko HA. Yvonne is a former Housing Association Managing Director, with 38 years’ experience of working in Housing and communities and the former Head of Housing and Economic Development at the Audit Commission in the North of England. She has been self-employed since 2011.

Her expertise and business is built around governance, equalities, strategic and policy review, building outcome focused strong resident voices, complaints mediation and building capacity with Boards, residents, communities.

Arturo Dell
Director of Technology and Innovation, HouseMark

Arturo is responsible for leading on product development, innovation, Big Data and the Internet of Things. He is widely known in the UK public sector as a thought leader and practition​er on these issues. He joined HouseMark in 2015 and was previously the Head of Business Intelligence at the London Borough of Camden​​.

Steve Douglas CBE
Chief Executive (from 1 July 2020), St. Mungo's

Steve Douglas CBE joined St Mungo’s as Chief Executive on 1 July 2020 after most recently serving as Group Chief Executive Officer with Aquila Services, a consultancy group advising housing associations as well as central and local government. Prior to that he held Chief Executive and senior level positions in a number of housing related roles. He has been Chief Executive of the Housing Corporation, and corporate director of Neighbourhoods and Regeneration for the London Borough of Hackney. Steve has also held a wide range of non-executive roles. Most recently he has been Chair of One Housing Group and chair of Commonweal, the social justice housing charity.

He is also a member of the NHF Governance Code review advisory group.

Jenny Dykes
Resident Board Member, Sovereign

A retired NHS manager, Jenny’s been an enthusiastic and knowledgeable resident Board member since 2016. And, as a social housing resident herself for over 40 years, she ‘s dedicated to ensuring Sovereign remains a strong organisation, committed to maintaining high standards of service and providing housing for those in need.

As well as being a resident Board member, Jenny’s a member of the Remuneration committee.

Sarah Finnegan
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Sarah Forster
Chief Executive Officer, The Good Economy

Sarah Forster is CEO and Co-Founder of The Good Economy Partnership (TGE), a social advisory firm specialising in impact measurement and management. She leads TGE’s advisory services and has also led the collaborative project to develop a Sector-Standard Approach to ESG and Impact Reporting for Social and Affordable Housing. Prior to establishing TGE in 2015, Sarah was Deputy CEO of Big Issue Invest, which she helped start-up and develop into one of the UK’s leading social investment intermediaries. From 2004-2007, Sarah worked for the New Economics Foundation focused on community-led development and social investment. Sarah spent the first half of her career working in international development, including ten years at the World Bank. She has lived and worked in Africa, Asia and the Balkans and helped build microfinance institutions and local community investment programmes aimed at tackling poverty.

James Francis
Chief Executive Officer, Saffron Housing Trust

As CEO, James is accountable to the Board for the overall leadership, reputation and direction of Saffron.

A qualified Chartered Accountant, James joined the housing sector in 2006. Before joining Saffron in Spring 2019, James held Board-level Finance Director positions at Circle and Southern for 9 years and served terms as Chair at the Primary School and Gymnastics Club attended by his two daughters.

Rina Goldenberg Lynch
Founder and Chief Executive, Voice At The Table

Rina was a lawyer for 20 years in Washington and London before she set up Voice At The Table, a gender diversity and inclusion consultancy. Since 2014, the consultancy has helped numerous organisations - large and small - develop inclusive teams and leaders and become more appreciative of women’s authentic contributions.

Linda Gove
Head of Governance and Data Protection Officer, PA Housing

Linda Gove is an experienced corporate governance professional having worked in senior governance roles since 2008 in the NHS and housing sectors. Before this, Linda has undertaken a number of roles across various organisations but always within the social value sector, and she is most happy in a challenging and fulfilling governance role. Linda has definitely found this ‘happiness’ in a combined role of Head of Governance and DPO. Linda brings an excitement to innovate and sustain activity to ensure the successful delivery across both functions.

Sarah Greenhalgh
Senior Associate, Bevan Brittan

Sarah specialises in corporate, governance and projects work in the housing sector, working with housing associations, local authorities, charities and for-profit housing companies. She leads on mergers, corporate re-structuring, joint ventures and strategic advice, working alongside clients to devise corporate, governance and funding structures that support them to achieve their objectives.

Grainne Heselwood
Chair, Salix Homes

Grainne is currently the Chair of Salix Homes, a Registered Provider based in Salford, with over 8,000 homes in management. Salix was formed following a stock transfer in March 2015, which proved to be an interesting moment in time to complete a stock transfer. The resilience of the organisation has been tested through rent reduction policies, floods and more recently the post-Grenfell operating environment. Salix has survived and thrived throughout these challenges and continues to plan for a future of growth and development.

Alongside her role at Salix, Grainne has been the MD at TSI; a housing consultancy based in the North West that has focused on the change of management and ownership of housing organisations. In this role she has advised on over sixty housing stock transfers, primarily on the governance of the new and developing organisations. She also works closely with charities and RPs to improve and transform their governance through governance reviews and board appraisal.

Besides her housing work she is also a Gestalt psychotherapist and has a practice in Chester.

Emma Hodges
Head of Business Development, National Housing Federation

Emma has worked for the Federation for over eight years and is currently the Head of Business Development. She and her team work to develop products and services for housing association members offering them additional value and benefit.

With a background in strategic commercial partnership development, Emma held previous commercial fundraising and project management roles within the charity sector.

Lewis Holloway
Resident Engagement and Scrutiny Specialist, Accent

Lewis has worked in customer engagement for eight years. He is responsible for collecting and analysing feedback from customers across the country, from all walks of life, through a range of channels. He also coordinates a panel of customers who scrutinise service delivery at a forensic level and make recommendations for improvements. In addition to this, he volunteers on the NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group, helping to ensure that customer engagement is carried out effectively.

Maureen Hopcroft
Board member, Salvation Army Housing Association

Maureen has 30 years’ ICT experience in the private, public and third sectors. She is now a board member at the Salvation Army Housing Association

Tahir Idris
Equality and Diversity Manager, Together Housing Group

Started as a trainee in 1989 (exactly 30 years ago) and quickly moved into managing a B/ME housing assoc, which I did for 15 years, which became one of the most successful and innovative in its time; then moved on to a change of career and managed innovative assistive technology project for the vulnerable at the then largest HA in the country. After that, became an independent living technology consultant working in partnership with local authorities, issuing preventative devices such as GPS watch trackers and dementia technologies. Latest role, completion of full circle, working for Together Housing, the descendant of the housing authority that trained me, leading on diversity issues. Within a year have made a significant impact on the whole organisation, transforming its EDI approach, including diversifying the future of the governance structure, which is the topic I will be presenting.

Alison Inman
Board Member, Saffron Housing Trust and Colne Housing Society

Alison Inman is a board member at Colne Housing Society, Saffron Housing Trust and Tpas. She was CIH President 2017/18 and is a former chair of Colchester Borough Homes, the National Federation of ALMOs and Broadland Housing Association.

Victoria Jardine
Partner, Anthony Collins

Victoria is one of the leading governance lawyers in the housing sector and provides specialist advice corporate, governance, constitutional and contractual issues, and also has considerable experience of advising on strategic, structural and diversification matters relating to social housing and charity law. She has advised clients on a range of major projects including the formation of, accessions to and consolidations of numerous group structures, collaborative working arrangements with other organisations, diversification and income generation through joint ventures and special purpose arrangements.

During the pandemic, Victoria has been working with housing associations to strengthen and support their internal governance and help them to manage and mitigation their Covid-related risks.

Anita Khan
Executive Director of Customer Services, settle

As executive director of customer service at settle, Anita is responsible for the landlord service, repairs and asset management for the 9000+ properties the housing association manages across Hertfordshire and in Bedfordshire. As a member of settle’s executive team, Anita also has oversight of the organisation’s strategic direction, governance and driving business improvements to enhance the colleague and customer experience.

Anita joined settle in September 2016 as director of housing. She has worked in social housing since 2012 when she joined Home Group, having previously worked in senior roles in the youth voluntary sector.

Mushtaq Khan
HDN Manager North, Housing Diversity Network

Mushtaq is Director of Think Inclusive a management consultancy working with organisations and people to develop inclusive and thriving businesses. He is on the Boards of Manningham HA and Syncora (the commercial arm of Calico Group). He also works for Housing Diversity Network and BMENational.

He has had a long and varied career in the housing and regeneration fields, and was most recently the Director of Commercial Partnerships at a large housing association. He is particularly interested in inclusive growth and ensuring that local people and local economies benefit from public and private sector interventions

Alan Lewin
Board Member, Hundred Houses

Alan is an experienced housing professional and was an Executive Director at Circle Anglia (now Clarion) and Sanctuary Group before being appointed Chief Executive of Axiom Housing in 2008. Between 2009 – 2017 Axiom more than doubled in turnover and won three Sunday Times Top 100 awards, whilst achieving and maintaining V1/G1 regulatory ratings.

Alan oversaw the successful merger of Axiom with Longhurst Group in 2017 and chaired Homes for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough along with being a member of the boards of Longhurst and of Hundred Houses.

In 2018 Alan was appointed Chair of Iceni Homes and is a non executive Director of Greenacre and a member of the NHF Board Members Group.

Alan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Sciences.

Mark Lewis
Chair, Trent and Dove

Working with the National Housing Federation in a Board member national group provides Mark with a fantastic opportunity to make a difference in terms of board member development and education, rolling out the together with tenants program and developing the blueprint for the trade body of the future that all housing associations deserve.

Within Global Banks Mark delivered merger / take over and change programmes to generate VFM. He now has four roles that improve the well-being of the people in the UK as follows:

• As Chair of Trent and Dove Housing he helps to increase housing stock and deliver services that improve communities.
• As Chair of AFK he helps young people with learning difficulties into employment.
• As CFO of Fairbanking he improves financial well-being in the UK.
• As a Consultant he helps small charities identify weaknesses and then deliver the required changes.

Hattie Llewelyn-Davies
Chair, PA Housing

Hattie has worked in housing and homelessness for her whole career. Beginning her career working with homeless people in London and then with housing associations. For the last 25 years she has been self employed, working mainly in the NHS and with housing associations on strategy and governance. She is the chair of PA Housing and continues to work as a consultant in the sector. She is the Chair of Bucks Healthcare NHS Trust.

Hattie is the Sunday Times Non Exec of the year 2018 for the public and not for profit sector.

Fiona MacGregor
Executive Director of Regulation, Social Housing Regulator

Fiona became Chief Executive of the standalone Regulator of Social Housing in October 2018 having been Director of Regulation at the Homes and Communities Agency from November 2015. The Regulator is responsible for the regulation of registered social housing providers. Previously, as Director of Programmes, she was responsible for HCA’s Affordable Housing and Help to Buy programmes. Fiona has over 25 years housing experience, covering development investment, programme delivery and policy development. She has worked at the HCA since it launched in 2008, before which she was Deputy Director of Investment at the Housing Corporation, and prior to that, Head of Development at London & Quadrant.

John Mansergh
Director of Business Assurance, South Lakes Housing

John is Director of Business Assurance and Company Secretary at South Lakes Housing. He is responsible for performance & risk management, health & safety, internal audit, communications and co-regulation. He provides executive support to the Audit & Risk Committee and Chairs the internal Health & Safety Committee.

John has over 15 years’ experience in managing performance and leading change projects both within housing organisations and the adult social care sector.

Eve McMahon
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Victoria Moffett
Head of Building and Fire Safety Programmes, National Housing Federation

Jess Mullins
External Affairs Manager, National Housing Federation

Jess is the External Affairs Manager for London at the National Housing Federation. Prior to this Jess worked in public affairs and Parliament.

Linda Nash
Chair, Live West

Linda was appointed to the board of Knightstone in 2014 and the board of LiveWest in 2018. Linda is a founding director of Nash Bevan Associates, a trustee on the board of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and chairman of North Somerset Community Partnership and Kings School’s Taunton. Linda has also been chairman of Somerset Partnership NHS Trust and on the Board of Musgrove Park Hospital.

Rev James Olanipekun
Tenant Advisory Panel, Together With Tenants

Reverend James Olanipekun has lived in Poplar since 1991. He has been a member of Tower Hamlets Council’s overview and scrutiny committee; Chair of London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Safer Neighbourhood Board (Mile End Ward); is a trustee of Tower Hamlets Street Pastors, Raine’s Foundation Trust, and Christ Apostolic Church.

He is also the immediate past vice-chair of Poplar housing and regeneration community association board in East London and is the current chair of one of the estate boards in Poplar Harca stock. Reverend James Olanipekun was a pioneer member of the Housing and Diversity Network London Region steering board.

Reverend James Olanipekun is a trained teacher, author of six published books on Christian topics. He has been a volunteer Pastor for over twenty years for a diverse congregation and was a recipient of the 2015 LBTH Civic Award for Outstanding Services to the community. Reverend James Olanipekun is happily married to Jummy and blessed with children who are also involved in the community positively.

Olu Olanrewaju
Associate Director, Altair Ltd

A member of the Royal Institution of chartered surveyors with MBA from Kingston University and alumni of the Directors Programme at Cranfield Business School

He is currently Associate Director of Altair International. Altair International provides advice and support on a wide range of issues related to the development, funding, governance, and management of affordable housing across the globe. Recent assignments include Kigali Green city pilot Rwanda, setting up a new housing fund in Nigeria, Rural housing modelling in Krygstan and setting up of a new urban park entity in Beira Mozambique.

Olu has had significant experience of leading major housing companies in the UK. He was Chief Executive of United HA based in Bristol, Managing Director of Midland Heart HA based in Birmingham, Managing Director of Genesis HA, Executive Director of Operations at East Thames, and member of Executive at London& Quadrant, all based in London. These businesses owned and managed homes with market value from £100m to £20bn. He was until recently non-executive Chairman of Inquilab HA and currently Chairman Altwood Housing Group, a family owned private property development and management company based in London.

Valerie Oldfield
Chair of Tenant Advisory Panel, Together With Tenants

Valerie Oldfield has been a social housing tenant for 33 years and an active tenant for 18 years. Valerie was voted in as a board member by residents for three consecutive terms, resulting in nine years on the board of her housing association. Four of those years were spent as vice-chair. As a board member, Valerie was part of the remuneration committee, was lead board member for resident involvement, as well as information technology, and was part of the merger working group.

Valerie has been active in many tenant involvement activities: a member of the performance review group, repairs group, scrutiny group, resident design group, readers’ panel, and a member and chair of the residents’ forum. Valerie also attends various residents’ focus groups.

Coming from a business, creative and community background, Valerie strongly believes in residents and their housing associations working together, and in the development of the relationship, understanding and services of social housing.

Ijay Onyechi
Assistant Director, Resident Services (East Region), Peabody

Ijay Onyechi is an Assistant Director of Resident Services at Peabody with over 7 years’ senior management experience within the social housing sector. She is part of the National Housing Federation’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion working group and is passionate about social housing provision, diversity and inclusion.

Zoe Ollerearnshaw
Group Company Secretary, Hyde Housing

Gordon Perry
Non Exec Director, ARK Consultancy

Gordon joined ARK Consultancy following his retirement as Chief Executive of Accent Group, a large national housing association. Having started his housing career in Bolton and having worked across the North of England and in London Gordon has amassed huge experience and expertise in dealing with both strategic and operational housing issues and in Housing Association, Local Authority and ALMO sectors. He is a passionate advocate of continuous improvement in customer service and development.

Gordon, who is a member of the CIH Governing Board and was previously a member of the HCA Provider Panel, has interests in all aspects of social and affordable housing. He is an expert in business planning, mergers, governance, board and executive selection and mentoring.

Gordon is also a Board member of Trafford Housing Trust.

Jamie Ratcliff
Executive Director for Business Performance and Partnerships, Network Homes

At Network Jamie has cross-cutting responsibility for service improvement, external relations, resident engagement, internal audit and special projects. He has over ten years experience working at a senior level in housing at local, national and regional levels, including being responsible for housing for the last two Mayors of London. He has overseen the completion of affordable homes for over 150,000 people, personally negotiated multi-billion-pound affordable housing settlements and successfully launched the UK’s first publicly available criminal landlord database. Jamie is the proud father of two mischievous children and is a passionate Norwich City fan.

Will Ray
Head of Sustainability, Clarion Housing Group

Will is Head of Sustainability for Clarion Housing Group and leads the development and implementation of their sustainability strategy. He has 20 years' experience at the cutting-edge of sustainability, low carbon buildings and market transformation internationally. From designing low energy buildings through to developing corporate sustainability strategies, he has successfully worked across the public and private sectors on projects that have helped push the Sustainability agenda forward. Most recently, Will helped Clarion to be the first UK housing group to attain the Sustainable Hosing Impact Label. This subsequently led to a record-breaking first sustainability bond issue for Clarion earlier this year.

Debbie Roche
Board Member and Tenant, Plymouth Community Homes

With over 20 years strategic board member experience Debbie, a former Plymouth City Councillor and Health and Social Care lecturer, now works within the Third Sector. She is currently Chair of MaleVoicED, a charity which provides a platform for males with experiences of eating disorders and co-morbid conditions to share their narrative.

Debbie is a board member and a tenant of Plymouth Community Homes. Having initially served on the Customer Focus committee as a co-optee, Debbie now sits on the Development and Audit and Risk committees. She is also a member of the National Housing Federation’s recently formed, Board Member National Group.

Debbie is also Chair of Pembroke Estate Management Board, Plymouth’s only tenant-managed organisation, for nearly four years.

Catherine Ryder
Director of Policy and Research, National Housing Federation

Catherine currently leads the Federation’s work on the Social Housing Green Paper. Catherine has also worked as Advisor to the Chief Executive at the Federation and recently spent some time working on economic development and housing at Coast to Capital – a Local Enterprise Partnership in Surrey and Sussex. Before joining the Federation Catherine worked at the Audit Commission as a Strategy Manager, leading the development of assessment frameworks for local government.

Dottie Schindlinger
Executive Director, Board Effect

Dottie Schindlinger is Executive Director of Diligent Institute, the global governance research arm of Diligent Corporation, leading provider of modern governance software. She co-authored Governance in the Digital Age: A Guide for the Modern Corporate Board Director, ©2019, Wiley, and co-hosts The Corporate Director Podcast. Dottie presents sessions on governance and technology topics to thousands of governance professionals around the world each year.

Amy Simmons
Head of Policy, National Housing Federation

Lee Sugden
Chief Executive, Salix Homes

Lee has worked in social housing for over 25 years in a variety of senior roles developing new and innovative solutions to housing problems. Lee joined Salix Homes in 2014 to lead the organisation following the transfer of homes from Salford City Council, shaping the business to ensure it plays a full role in the transformation of the City of Salford. He has played a Non Executive role for a variety of other Organisations including Housing Providers, Local Authorities and a Further Education college.

James Tickell
Partner, Campbell Tickell

James has been a Partner of Campbell Tickell since 2004. He has carried out a wide range of assignments throughout the UK and the Ireland, primarily for not-for-profit organisations and government agencies. His assignments have focused on governance, mergers, performance improvement, strategy and most recently organisational culture. Some more high profile work has involved helping clients through difficult or unexpected events.

Previously, James has worked as a Director at the Refugee Council, and then at the Housing Corporation, where he was Registrar - a senior post in the department responsible for the regulation of housing associations. Before moving to set up Campbell Tickell, he was Deputy Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation, a national campaigns and trade body.

James trained as an architect. He has served as a Board member of various charities and other organisations, including as a government appointee to the Board of an organisation in special measures. He was a trustee of Public Concern at Work, the whistleblowing charity, and also a non-executive Director of McCann Homes Ltd., a developer and housebuilder. He has published books on the Maya and Inca civilisations, as well as on housing-related subjects.

Kerry Tromanhauser
Acting Chief Information & Data Officer, Hyde Housing

Originally a barrister and solicitor practicing criminal and family law, Kerry has been working in social housing since falling into it 15 years ago and realising how rewarding working within the sector can be. Having worked in a number of organisations, predominantly in risk and governance, and more latterly change roles, Kerry has become a data convert recognising that embracing data is essential for us to meet the challenges that face us – be it regulatory, economic or service driven. Kerry is currently the Acting Chief Information & Data Officer at the Hyde Group after delivering a large scale information Governance Programme.

Kelsey Walker
Director, Housing Consultancy, Savills

Kelsey is a director in Savills affordable housing consultancy team. She leads the strategic governance range of consultancy, including in depth assessment readiness; governance, risk and board effectiveness reviews; regulatory recovery and lessons learned; consumer standards reviews; partnership and merger support.

Kelsey joined Savills in September 2018 and has an in depth knowledge of the expectations of good governance. In her nine years at the Regulator of Social Housing, Kelsey was part of the senior leadership group and led a team working with large and complex housing providers assessing their performance against the economic standards. Kelsey helped develop the regulatory approach including in-depth assessments.

Prior to joining the Regulator, Kelsey was Business Assurance Director for a London-based housing association.

Rob Wall
Head of Policy, National Housing Federation

Diana Warwick
Chair, National Housing Federation

Baroness Warwick is currently the Chair of the National Housing Federation. She was Chair of the Human Tissue Authority until April 2014. Before that, she was Chief Executive of Universities UK for 14 years where she led a body representing the executive heads of 130 universities, both nationally and internationally. She was a Fulbright Commissioner until last year and is a life time fellow of the RSA.

Diana was a leading trade unionist for 20 years. She was subsequently Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy in the 1990s.

She was a member of the Nolan/Neill Committee on standards in public life; a Board Member of the British Council; a trustee of the Commonwealth Institute and Chair of Voluntary Service

Nicky Wilden
Board Member and Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee, Central & Cecil Housing Association

Nicky is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience in the real estate sector. She is Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee at Central and Cecil Housing Trust. She has also held a non-executive board role at Origin Housing Association, where she was vice-chair and at London & Continental Railways Ltd, a company owned by the Department for Transport and amongst other developments, was responsible for the government’s interest in the regeneration of Kings Cross. Previous executive roles have included corporate finance director of an Aim listed property development company, CFO of a major property company, corporate finance director of a listed property development company and director in the corporate finance teams of two of the top global property service providers.

Richard Wilkinson
Resident Board Member, Accent Housing

Richard has been an Accent resident since 1992. He spent 36 years in education many of them at senior management level. Since then he has been a board member with two local NHS commissioning groups. Joining the Accent board has been a true ambition for Richard and he thinks it's right and proper to have the resident voice at the heart of decision making and will endeavour to be a champion for residents and ensure their voice is heard.