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Haxby, GB

Northern & Eastern England

Retirement Housing and development consultancy. Specialist in Retirement Housing. Consultant to the Housing Association sector. Trusted advisor to senior housing professionals. Author of the LaingBuisson Retirement Housing market report and conference director.

Yorkshire, United Kingdom

54North Homes is the new name for the merger of York Housing Association and Leeds & Yorkshire Housing Association and a proud part of the Karbon family. As Chair of the board helped lead the successful meger bringing the two organisations together seamlessly benefitting from the scale of the Karbon GroupProviding high quality, affordable homes and.

Karbon provides homes and services which form the foundations for people and places to fulfil their potential. As a housing association, we own or manage almost 30,000 affordable properties across the North East of England and Yorkshire. As a profit-for-a-purpose business, we invest any surplus we generate into improving our properties and communities.

C-Link provides all the tools developers and contractors need to get subcontract procurement done.Non-exec advise young management team of fast growing software business.

Manchester, United Kingdom

construction site data capture software that helps asset owners and contractors to automate the efficient delivery of infrastructure projects at scale.Chair board and advise young management team of fast growing software business. Completed successful fundraising.

Yorkshire

Ashfield is a Yorkshire based SME spec housebuilder. Our first scheme has been successfully delivered and on site with construction of the second we're actively looking for new developments to take on.

York, United Kingdom

Representing the property sector in York & N Yorkshire as part of the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce

York, England, United Kingdom

SMART is an amazing social enterprise specialising in using music and performaing arts to help disadvantaged people in York. Chair of Finance Committee

JJH are specialist Housing Association in Independent Living housing for older people. I have brought development expertise and wider commercial skills to the JJH Board. Chair of Assets & Investment Committee and development subsidiary

York, United Kingdom

• Expanded the business which led to the split of the Region to help facilitate further growth.
• Won Region of Year Award
• Heavily involved in contributing to wider Group projects and committees including Corporate Social responsibility, Health & Safety, Customer Experience Steering group.

York & Manchester

• Selected to merge the NE and NW regions into new Northern Region during financial crash approx. halving the size of the workforce, Subsequently successfully rebuilding morale and managing geographical challenge across.
• Developed strategy to focus on cash generation and investing in better quality higher margin sites, leading the Region back to growth with up to 180 people across 18 construction sites and 25 sales outlets, 398 unit.
• Led Group-wide Transforming our Customer Experience Project, involving identifying best practice and resulting in Group retaining 5 star status when it had been at risk.

York, United Kingdom

• Promoted to turnaround under-performing Region, facilitated senior leadership team working together, helping to get the Region back on growth trail and adopting best practice.
• Led the successful growth of the Region.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Promoted to lead the Group’s IT function and business change projects whilst retaining responsibility for Business Risk Management.
• Successfully led a major project to implement new IT systems.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Appointed Member of the Group’s Executive Committee, approving all land purchases and other key operational decisions.
• Led a team that obtained a £1.2m tax refund, negotiating with C&E to a favourable settlement.

Bournemouth

• Given functional responsibility for regional accounts offices and responsibility for all aspects of Group management and statutory accounting; budgeting; forecasting both for strategic and banking purposes; tax.
• Conducted a number of reviews of aspects of the Group’s operations, leading to action to improve profitability and return on capital.

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Trained in audit department undertaking audits of medium sized companies in a variety of industries.
• Carried out projects in Corporate Finance / Advisory Department, including acquisition due diligence, assisted with MBO proposals, flotations, viability studies, share valuations & financial modelling.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bsc, Business Studies And Accountancy