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| Roger Mountford
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Roger Mountford was a merchant banker in London and Hong Kong. Since his retirement he has served on a number of boards including Thames Valley Housing Association and the Civil Aviation Authority. He is chairman of HgCapital Trust PLC, the Port of Dover and the CAA Pension Scheme. Roger is a governor of the London School of Economics and chairman of its commercial subsidiary, LSE Enterprise Limited. Roger joined the board in September 2006 and was appointed chairman with effect from 23 June 2007.
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Pam Alexander became SEEDA's Chief Executive in January 2004. She leads for all nine Regional Development Agencies on relations with the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) on innovation and skills.
Pam chairs the Margate Renewal Partnership, the Hastings & Bexhill TaskForce, and is Deputy Chair of Ashford's Future. She also chairs the South East Partnership for 2012 and was co-chair of the Women's Enterprise Task Force 2006-2009.
Outside SEEDA Pam is a non-executive Director of Brighton Dome and Festival Ltd and of the Academy of Urbanism. She was Chair of Peabody from 2004-2009 and a non-executive Director of Quintain Estates & Development Plc prior to joining SEEDA.
Pam was previously Chief Executive of English Heritage and Deputy Chief Executive of the Housing Corporation. As a civil servant in the Department of the Environment from 1975 to 1994, she worked on local government finance, transport, inner city regeneration and housing policies and in Brussels.
Pam was appointed to the board in 2002. |
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Charlie Arbuthnot currently works as a financial consultant principally in the RSL sector. Prior to this he worked for S G Warburg, Hambros Bank and Royal Bank of Canada in a variety of funding roles. He has almost 20 years experience in the RSL sector having arranged RSL borrowings in both banking and capital markets and having been head of UK institutional corporate bond sales at RBC for 6 years. He was appointed to the Board in November 2008. |
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| John Parker was appointed to the board on 1 April 2010. John is a qualified chartered accountant. He was Chief Executive of the Stroud and Swindon Building Society for 13 years until retiring in December 2005. Prior to that he has worked as a business economist for Morgan Grenfell, Chief Internal Auditor for the Chelsea Building Society, and in successive financial roles for Burmah Oil plc. John was a member of the Building Societies Association Council for 6 years and was Chairman in 2004. More recently he has been a director of English Partnerships, and Finance Director to the Company of the Proprietors of Stroudwater Navigation. He now chairs the investment committee of the Department of Work and Pensions and is Vice Chairman of the Newbury Building Society. |
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| Fenella Edge joined THFC in 2002 having
previously spent 11 years at Abbey National Treasury Services (“ANTS”).
Her roles at ANTS included Director of Market Risk, Director of Financial
Products and Manager, Capital Markets. Prior to joining ANTS she was
at Wood Gundy, Elders Finance Group and Nikko Securities in a variety
of capital markets and derivative roles. She was appointed to the
board in April 2006. |
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| David Orr took up his post as chief executive of the National Housing Federation in July 2005. For the previous 15 years David was chief executive of the Scottish Federation of Housing Association. David also previously worked in London as Director of Newlon Housing Trust (a housing association in the high stress, high need areas of the East End) and for nine years with young homeless people at Centrepoint, in Soho.
David completed a one-year secondment to the Scottish Executive in October 2001, as Community Ownership Manager. He was formerly President of CECODHAS-Housing Europe, the European network of housing federations. He joined the board in 2005. |
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| Gill Rowley is the Head of Private Finance at the Tenant Services Authority, the regulator of social housing in England. She has over 15 years experience of funding for the housing association sector and previously worked at Ahli United Bank and Nationwide Building Society. Gill was appointed to the board in April 2006. |
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| Sadru Visram was appointed to the board in 2002. He manages a company providing consultancy and training to the RSL sector and until 2000 was Group Finance Director at London & Quadrant Housing Trust. He is Chair of the Governing Body of ASRA, a leading housing association that specialises in meeting the needs of the Asian community and is also a board member and treasurer of Notting Hill Housing Trust and deputy Chair of ASRA’s parent company Leicester Housing Association.
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| Piers
Williamson - chief executive |
| Piers has over 25 years of experience of the UK, US and European financial markets specialising in Bank Treasury risk management and securitisation.
Prior to THFC, Piers was the Treasurer and then the Director of Corporate Finance of HFC Bank (Now part of HSBC). He holds professional qualifications in both treasury and banking. With the agreement and support of the Board Piers has served as a non executive director of Cooperative Bank, Cooperative Insurance Society and CIS (General Insurance) Limited since July 2005, where he is closely involved in all aspects of risk management.
He is also a member of both the Audit Commission Housing and Regeneration Advisory Group and a Commissioner of the London Sustainable Development Commission. |
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