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Housing Moves: our round-up of senior sector appointments in February 2020
Inside Housing’s monthly round-up of top-level housing sector appointments runs down the main senior appointments in the sector for February 2020
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Housing association and ALMO moves
- Sue Chalkey (pictured) has taken over as interim chief executive of Golding Homes. She was most recently chief executive of Hastoe, before retiring in 2018. Golding’s previous chief executive Gary Clark left the business on 6 March.
- Jan Lycett has joined Wrekin Housing Group as executive director of business solutions, coming to the role from Wolverhampton Homes, where she was director of business support. Wrekin has also promoted David Wells to executive director of operational services, from a previous role as head of operational services at the 13,000-home West Midlands landlord.
- Phil Davison has been appointed as director of transformation at EMH, with a remit to modernise the association’s systems, and support new ways of working. Phil runs his own company delivering business transformation in the public sector. Prior to joining EMH group he worked with Greatwell Homes and HouseMark.
- Homes for Haringey has appointed Tracey Downie as executive director of housing management. She was briefly interim head of income management at the ALMO, and before that director of housing and communities at One Housing.
- North Wales Housing has appointed Catherine Dixon to chair its group board, replacing Tom Murtha who held the role for the last two years. Ms Dixon is also chief executive of Muir Group. Meanwhile, North Wales Housing also confirmed Brett Sadler as its permanent operations director. Mr Sadler had been assistant director for communities until taking on the role as interim in January 2019.
- Karbon Homes has appointed Scott Martin as executive director of resources. His career has been in the housebuilding sector, most recently group finance director at the developer Storey Homes. He replaces Greg van Enk-Bones, who held the job on an interim basis since June last year, after previous incumbent Mark Reid left the group.
- Warwickshire Rural Housing Association has a new chair: Ruth Bagley, who has been on the 500-home landlord’s board since 2017. She replaces Derrick Dyas, who was a founding member of the association.
Other moves
Picture: Guzellian
- Bob Green (pictured) has stepped down as chief executive of Stonewall Housing after 14 years at the LGBT+ charity. He is replaced this month by Steven McIntyre, who “led a significant portfolio” at Barnardo’s.
- The charity Commonweal Housing has appointed two new trustees: Jeremy Swain, previously chief executive of Thames Reach homelessness charity, and Sneha Patel, senior advisor for external and international affairs to the Mayor of London.
- Jennifer Peters joins the London Borough of Tower Hamlets as divisional director for planning and building control. She comes from the Greater London Authority, where she was most recently head of London Plan and growth strategies.
- Shanly Group has appointed Tim Nutt as managing director of its housebuilding business. He comes to the group from Taylor Wimpey where he headed up the Midlands division. He has worked in the sector since 1987.
- ‘Prop-tech’ business Urban Intelligence appointed Joe Welch to its board. He moves from Arcadis where he led the residential development management team.
- Sue Weston has left her role as senior commissioning officer for supported housing at West Sussex County Council and set up a consultancy called Housing & Support Solutions.
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