Housing Moves: our round-up of senior sector appointments in September 2020

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Inside Housing’s new monthly round-up of top-level housing sector appointments runs down the main senior appointments in the sector for September 2020

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Housing association moves

Sinéad Butters (pictured), group chief executive of Aspire Housing, has taken up the role of chair at Yorkshire-based Berneslai Homes. She was previously chair of national housing network PlaceShapers for five years.
North East landlord Karbon Homes has appointed Sarah Robson as its new director of development and asset management. Ms Robson was previously corporate director of growth, enterprise and environment at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
Platform Housing Group, which owns and manages 46,000 homes across the Midlands and the surrounding areas, has brought in Heena Prajapat , Tony King, John Anderson and Lou Zonato as non-executive directors.
Wayne Morris has become the chair of Abri, previously known as Radian. He first joined the board last year, having served as vice-chair of Yarlington prior to the Radian merger.

Sanctuary Group, which owns and manages 102,000 homes, revealed three new additions to its board. Alok Bhalla (pictured) has worked at Citibank, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Ian Chisholm is currently group treasurer at Grosvenor Group, an international property management and development firm. James Thallon has wide experience as a senior NHS clinical leader.
Wirral-based association Alpha appointed Claire Taylor as its new chair. Ms Taylor is also deputy vice-chancellor and professor of education at Wrexham Glyndŵr University.
John Davidson is the new chief executive of Livingston-based Almond Housing Association. Prior to joining, he was director of customer services at fellow Scottish landlord Cairn Housing Association.
One Manchester has appointed Kevin Williams as its new Executive Director of Growth and Assets. Kevin will join One Manchester later this year from The Guinness Partnership where he is currently Director of Asset and Growth Strategy.

Other moves

Savills has appointed a former L&Q London regional sales and customer service director as the head of its shared ownership team. Lucy Chitty (pictured), who most recently ran her own consultancy business, has also worked at Southern Housing Group and Peabody in a career spanning 21 years.
Peter Freeman, co-founder of developer Argent and chair of Mayfield Market Towns, a firm half-owned by Clarion, is the government’s pick as the new chair of Homes England. Before being confirmed in the role, Mr Freeman’s appointment will face scrutiny from MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee.
The Housing Ombudsman has appointed two members to its audit and risk assurance committee. Tim Leslie is a board member at West Midlands-based The Community Housing Group and former chief executive of the Standards Board for England. Vikki Lewis, who has more than 25 years’ public sector finance and audit experience, currently works at HM Treasury as head of financial reporting policy and has previously held roles at the National Audit Office.