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Roger Mountford - NON-EXECUTIVE Chairman
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, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Port of Dover. He is chairman of Hg Capital Trust PLC, the CAA Pension Scheme and Enterprise LSE Limited, the commercial subsidiary of the London School of Economics. Roger joined the Board in October 2006 and was elected Chairman in June 2007.



Pam Alexander
Pam Alexander is the chief executive of the South East England Development Agency and was the chief executive of English Heritage from 1997 to 2001. Prior to this she was deputy chief executive of the Housing Corporation
from 1995 to 1997 after holding several senior posts in the Department of the Environment. Pam is Chair of the Peabody Trust and of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Mixed Income Communities programme and is an Associate of the New Economics Foundation. Pam was appointed to the board in 2002.


Michael Boohan
Michael Boohan is a Chartered Accountant. He practices as a business consultant and acts as a CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution) Accredited Mediator. He is a
former partner in Grant Thornton and has been a THFC board member since 1995.


FENELLA EDGE
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.


DAVID ORR

David Orr took up his post as chief executive of the National Housing Federation in July 2005. For the past 15 years David has been chief executive of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations. 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 is presently Vice President of CECODHAS, the European network of housing federations. He joined the board in 2005.



GILL ROWLEY
Gill Rowley joined the Housing Corporation in January 2000 and is their Head of Private Finance. She has over 15 years experience of funding for the housing association sector and previously worked at the United Bank of Kuwait
(now Ahli United Bank) and Nationwide Building Society. Gill was appointed to the board in April 2006.

Sadru Visram
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.




Piers Williamson - chief executive

Piers Williamson was appointed chief executive of THFC in October 2002 and joined its board in 2003. Piers has over 20 years’ experience of the financial markets having previously worked as treasurer and then as director of
corporate finance for HFC Bank. Prior to this he was assistant Group treasurer at the Mortgage Funding Corporation, a centralised residential mortgage lender run by Kleinwort Benson, and prior to that he worked at
NatWest International in a variety of roles, including the structured finance group. 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 the Cooperative Bank, Cooperative Insurance Services Limited, CIS (General Insurance) Limited and their holding company CFS since July 2005.