Our People

Stephen joined the board in September 2013. Stephen is a senior housing manager with extensive experience delivering property and housing management services across different tenures.

Stephen has held a variety of senior management positions since 1999 and is currently Chief Executive of Portsmouth Rotary Housing Association.

Dillan joined the board in August 2018 as a trustee. He is passionate about social housing, and making a difference in the community. He brings a wealth of experience in his roles as Vice Chair of the board, and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Dillan is currently a senior manager for a housing association. He has over 15 years experience in housing, policy and commercial property management.

Alice joined the board as an ex officio member representing the vicar of St John’s Church, Mattock Lane W13 in 2014. The parish of St Johns with St James is currently in an interregnum, awaiting a new vicar, over this period Alice remains on the board as a co-opted member. Alice retired in 2014 but remains a registered Occupational Therapist.

Over her paid working years Alice worked as a clinician and manager in the NHS and in Canada, specialising in services for Older People. Her last full-time job was as a Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Health and Social Care at Brunel University. Alice is an active member of St Johns Church. She is Chair of the Grants Committee.

Janet is a committed and enthusiastic housing professional who is passionate about helping people in need. Janet is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and Institute of Leadership Management.

She has extensive housing experience encompassing the private, public and voluntary sector as well as being an established change manager. As a Trustee, Janet brings energy, housing expertise and shares her knowledge and experience in business acumen.

Katherine is a passionate housing professional with a diverse experience in homelessness, welfare reform and regeneration. She is motivated to deliver change and to ensure that housing evolves with the needs of its demographic.

Matthew currently holds a number of non-executive chair and director appointments, across a broad range of organisations. He also advises institutional investors on responsible investment, stewardship and governance and pension schemes on member engagement.

Matthew has worked in roles including CEO, COO and CIO across financial services, legal, health, consulting, regulatory and property in countries including USA, UK, France and Australia. He has a unique view on the development of strategy and how this translates to business planning and organisational management. Matthew holds an MBA from HEC, Paris. In his spare time, he climbs mountains, flies gliders and has a healthy interest in food & wine.

Mark leads a family of churches from St Paul’s, Ealing. With his wife, Lindsay, they have a particular heart to make church relevant and accessible in today’s culture and have worked at this during their 26 years at St Paul’s.

Together they have written and pioneered the Family Time Parenting Children Course. Mark is also the Assistant National Leader for New Wine and is a Director of Tearfund.

Having worked in both local government and the private sector, Isabella is experienced in leading complex negotiations on residential and mixed-use developments to secure new, affordable homes. Isabella is currently Director at ULL Property, providing affordable housing consultancy and transactional advice, having previously worked at CBRE in a similar role.

Isabella is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and joined the board in May 2019.

Andrea is a strong technical and business professional with a MSc in Construction Commercial Management from the University of Westminster. She has over 20 years’ experience of working in the social housing sector and has extensive knowledge of developing asset management strategies, commercial portfolio management and planned investment programmes. 

Andrea is currently the Head of Investment Planning at Catalyst Housing Limited