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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 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.



Deborah Shackleton, CBE

Deborah Shackleton is Group Chief Executive of the Riverside Group, one of the most prominent social purpose regeneration companies in the UK, serving over 50,000 tenants and leading regeneration work in neighbourhoods throughout England. She has been involved in housing and regeneration for over 30 years and her other interests include membership of the North West Regional Leaders Board, Board member NHS Sefton, Trustee National Museums Limited (NML) and Governor Liverpool John Moores University. Deborah was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2011.



Charlie Arbuthnot

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.



John Parker
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.


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 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.



GILL ROWLEY
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.

Keith Exford FRSA, MCIH

Keith Exford is Chief Executive of the Affinity Sutton Group which is one of the largest housing association groups in England with more than 55 000 affordable homes in over 100 local authorities. It is also a major affordable house builder with 4000 new homes in its development pipeline. The Group provides housing across all tenures in both urban and rural areas. Keith's career in housing spans over 30 years. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Vice Chair of the G15 group of London's largest housing associations. Keith was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2011.



Piers Williamson - chief executive

Piers Williamson was appointed chief executive of THFC in October 2002 and joined its board in 2003. He has nearly 30 years of experience of the UK, US and European financial markets specialising in bank treasury risk management and securitisation.

He holds professional qualifications in both treasury and banking and in addition to his duties at THFC has recently completed a six year spell as a non executive director of Cooperative Bank and Cooperative Insurance, where he was Chair of the Risk Management Committee. Amongst other matters, Piers oversaw the merger with Britannia in 2009 and more recently the sale of the life insurance business.

Piers is also a Commissioner of the GLA's London Sustainable Development Commission.